The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The Prescott flour mill has closed
because of the water supply freezing.
Twenty-Five elk for Walla Walla
are to be delivered in a couple
of months
The Ellensburg wooden mill is run
ming full time and is now employing
about so persons.
1t is said that there is still chance
that probe may be made at Wash
ington State college.
Charles e. Severance, pioneer of
the northwest for more than 40 years,
died in Spokane Sunday.
F. B. Hutchins, the freight agent at
Mabton, had both his forearms acct
dentally cut off in cog wheels just be-
low the elbow.
Samuel Hill of Seattle, president of
the Washington State Good Roads as
ISOLATION, was elected president of the
American Road Builders association
at New York, Saturday.
Governor Lister has indicated that
he was displased with the radical in
crease in the public highway levy,
from one-half mill to one mill and one
half, as passed by the lower house.
That the courthouse should be made
sanitary and that the finances of the
county are in excellent condition, are
the features in the report of the bu-
reau of inspection relative to Grant
county.
The launch Moonlight of Astoria was
burned to the waters edge three miles
south of Cape Flattery Monday night.
The fate of the people on the launch is
not known, but it is thought they es-
capped in a lifeboat.
George Defoe, who shot John Hager-
man November II, when Hagerman
and Mrs. Defoe returned from a dance
at o'clock in the morning, was SEN
in the penitentiary.
Secretary of State Philander c.
Knox asks Gov. Lister to take steps
to delay the passage of the Hughes
alien land bill, already adopted by the
house, giving aliens, with the excep-
ton of Asiatics, the right to hold land.
Saturday the jury which had been
considering the evidence in the case
of the state against Jacob Furth and
the other officers Of the Seattle Ma
tional bank disagreed and was dis
charged by Judge Hardin at Belling-
ham.
To abolish the insane ward at Walla
Walla state penitentiary and move all
= criminal insane to the eastern Wash
ington hospital at Medical Lake is the
. proposal advanced by DR.. John M.
! Semple, superintendent of the latter
4 institution.
s Organization and marketing of farm
y and orchard products will be treated
q from every point of view by experts
on Thursday, February 20, the fourth
! day of the week of the short course in
T, agriculture, to be conducted at North
b Yakima by instructors from Washing.
l. ton state college.
The Washington Retail Merchants
association will make an active cam
paign during the present session OF
it the state legislature for the passage
d of two bills, one prohibiting fraudu
y lent advertising and the other provid
is ing for the bonding of collection agen
re cies.
ID Emil Sorenson, rs years old, al
opium smuggler, who was pardoned by
d. President Taft last spring, and who
al was indicted in November on another
a charge of smuggling OPIUM was sho
Il. and probably fatally wounded in at
tempting to escape from Customs In
,e spector Neil Macarthur, who arrested
I'd Sorenson in hotel in Chinatown
A bench warrant has been issued il
Seattle for the arrest of Harry
90 Jones, the millionaire, whose wife
- Clara B. Jones, obtained a divorce an
~ a judgment of 100000 against hir
4 last week. The charge is contempt @
no court and warrant can not be serve
" as long as Jones remains in Val
couver, B. c., where he owns a millio
and quarter dollars worth of prof.
,e- erty.
h The Yakima County Horticulture
union handled approximately $4,000
er worth of fruit for it's members las
sy season, according to the financial r,
az port submitted Saturday by Manage
lis e. E. Simpson at the annual meetin
of stockholders. About $27S,O0O ha
en- actually been collected and $234,OC
disbursed to growers. Cash on han,
do operating expenses and bills payabl
es make the difference. The value
M $4,000 is placed on the 119 cars
Ia apples in storage and small unco
he lected accounts.