The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-16
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MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Dayton 8 annual horse show, Satur
day, April "a.
Monday, April IL, was general clean
ling day at Palouse.
The Waitsburg Times and Waitsbure
Gazette have effected consolidation.
The new Wenatchee depot to be built
by the Great Northern will cost $50, 1000
George Hay, 10 years Of age, whose
home is few miles west of North Yak
ina, was drowned recently.
Willie Harner, less than 2 years old
received burns while playing at Seattle
recently, which resulted in his death.
Elmer F. Cave, principal of the Ala.
media county schools, has been selected
superintendent Of schools at Belling
ham.
Louise Marie Cheever, IA days old
the last Of the triplets born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry A. Cheever, Seattle, Friday
March %, is dead
All willows in the fruit section of
Yakima county, particularly through
the Yakima valley, must be cut down
or sprayed.
Charles Dunn, laborer, aged Is
years, was run over and killed by a
passenger train at Bristol, near North
Yakima, recently.
Elmer Walden, Q years old, son of ].
W. Walden Of Everett, while playing on
a float on the water front fell into the
water and was drowned Sunday.
Officers high in the ranks Of the In
ternational Horseshoers' & Blacksmiths ;
Masters association will be in Spokane
on April "a to attend the big state con
vention of the smiths and shoers.
The apricot, cherry and pear trees are
in full bloom at Cliffs, and the peach,
apple, prune and nut trees will soon
open out their blossoms. Damage done
by the hard freeze will be of little con.
sequence.
The university of Puget sound, Ia
coma institution, is in turmoil because
of the recent ruling of Lee L. Benbow.
president of the institution, forbidding
the members Of the faculty from attend
ing theatres.
The Washington National Guard of
Seattle have moved into the new ar
mory drill hall, which is said to be the
finest hall of its class west of Chicago.
The building will seat 61O0 persons and
is well appointed.
1t is thought E. C. Hughes will be
named for the new judgeship in Western
Washington; the following postmasters
are nominated: velasco J. Knapp, Ana
.cortes; Cornelius E. Legg, Chewelah;
George d. Primer, Blaine.
Because he left an incubator lamp
turned up too high Albert Schurra, a
poultry raiser who lives between st.
John and Winena in the Took creek dis
trict, lost his home, household goods,
carpenter tools, two incubators and 400
chickens.
Master Kegley announced that the
annual picnic and live stock show of
Ewartsville grange, seven miles west
of Pullman, will be held again this
year in Lyle's grove as usual. The
dates fixed for the picnic are July 1,
2, 3 and 4.
The judge of the National Rifle asso-
citation has announced that Washington
State college won the rifle shooting
championship Of universities and col
leges last week on scores Of 949 out of
a possible 1000. The average was $40
per man. Columbia university, New
York, was second.
The body of James A. Frace, who has
been missing few days, was found in
the brush in the western part of Ia
coma. Three bullet holes were found
in his body, and the police believe he
was murdered for revenge by unknown
persons. He was a contractor we'll
known in the northwest.
Fire broke out Wednesday afternoon
in the plant of the Union Lumber CON-
pany, one mile from Lacey, and totally
destroyed the mill, bunkhouses and con-
siderable lumber. Loss, $4,000, partly
covered by insurance. The loss of the
mill throws $50 men out of employ
ment, rs Of them Japanese.
It is reported 500 families from Chi.
ecago are to be located in the Richland
irrigated district on the Columbia by
the United Industries company of that
metropolis, which has bought 1000 acres
under the Richland Land company ditch.
The price was 100000. The land is all
to be set in winter apples.
A new clue to the whereabouts of
little Cecil Britain, who was kidnapped
two years ago in Walla Walla, has been
obtained by a Tacoma man, who has
notified the Britain family. The in
formant withheld his name for the pres.
emit. The boy is said to be held in
Idaho and is in the care of an old
womans who presumably was not con-
nected with the kidnapping.
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