The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
DR.. Heg has been appointed state
commissioner Of health at q salary of
$500 year.
Premature explosion of charge of
dynamite in the tunnel of the Great
Excelsior mine near Maple Falls, What
com county, resulted in the death Of
William Laufman and the fatal injury
Of Frank Hart.
A. R. Lehman, a hay and feed COM
mission broker, who was to have been
married to Miss Martha Christian, q
Seattle school teacher, has disappeared
from Tacoma.
With capital stock Of $4,000, the
Broughton National bank at Dayton
will be incorporated during the month.
Tom Hagarman, Jr., the 16 year old
son Of T. Hagarman Of st. John, is dead
from an accidental pistol shot which
he received while he was showing the
gun was not loaded.
Held up by two armed thugs, Police
Officer Joseph Backus, one Of the recent
husky recruits to the Spokane force,
was robbed Sunday night of his revolver
and after being first deprived of his
returned to him by his assailants.
Mrs. Martha E. Marshall, formerly of
the Walla Walla country, died recently
in the Alberta country.
Mr.. Barber of Ritzville has been
granted patent on a brake for pas
senger or freight elevators.
Suit has been fled by the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative Union Of
America, through the state executive
committee for Washington and Idaho,
Of which J. M. Reid of Pullman is pres
ident, to require the railroads in Wash.
dngton and Oregon to give the same
rates on grain, live stock, vegetables
and other farm products to Astoria as
to points on Puget sound, Portland and
the Coast.
One of the largest Masonic gatherings
ever held in Pennington was witnessed
Saturday at the dedication of the beau
fiful temple of Pennington lodge, F. &
"A. M.
Thirty women have discontinued the
use Of private boxes at the Seattle post
Office, owing to demand being made for
references. 1t is learned that the gov
ernment has begun a crusade to stop
ciandestine correspondence, which is
said to be common among many persons
Of social prominence.
Governor Hay is this week attending
business in the eastern part of the
state. He will be at Walla Walla April
s to attend meeting Of the state prison
board and at Spokane April to attend
a good roads meeting at the chamber
Of commerce, and will remain at Spokane
until April Q, with probable trip to
Wilbur, arranging his business affairs
and preparing to move his family to
Olympia. On April 10 he will be at
Everett and April II at Monroe, leaving
chat night ON his return to Olympia.
W. F. Eddy, an aged G. A. R. man,
plunged from load Of hay recently,
three miles east Of Snohomish, and, fall
ing upon his hands, fractured both
wrists.
j. K. Thomas, found guilty in the
superior court Of Whatcom county of
the murder Of his wife at her home in
Happy Valley last fall and sentenced
to life imprisonment, has begun his SEN
tence.
Governor Hay has committed to life
imprisonment the sentence of Nick
Pettrich, convicted Of murder in the
first degree at Seattle October 1, 1908,
and sentenced to be hanged Friday, May
81, 1909.
In accordance with the provision
made by the last state legislature, L.
Davies, state dairy commissioner, has
appointed three more deputies in the
state dairy department. They are John
e. Wrage Of Arlington, F. H. Bothel OF
Spokane and Ernest Kelly.
A Finn, John saimi, was shot, in the
abdomen by John Reynolds. young
man, son Of one Of the proprietors Of
the Grand Ridge coal mine at Issa.
quah, recently. Reynolds claimed he
was shooting at dog that had beer
troubling him, and that it was an acct
dent.