The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS

1t cost $101, 853.40 to hold the pri-
mary elections of last year; and $141.-
1855 for the general election.
The government will throw open for
public entry 1858 90 acres of land in
Stevens and Pend Oreille counties on
May 20.
The dairy business has increased to
such an extent among the farmers
around Albion that the town has es-
tablished a cream station.
The office force at the state prison
is being kept busy returning checks to
farmers throughout the state since the
last grain bag orders were Cancelled.
Announcement is made of the forma-
ton of the Hunt Manufacturing com
pany, which will take over the plant
of the Gilbert Hunt company at Walla
Walla.
The business of the Newport post
office has increased more than 10 per
cent during the last year, not taking
into account the receipts from the par
eel post.
Rails for. the Milwaukee railroad
from Beverly to Hanford are laid up to
within about 20 miles of Hartford.
They are expected to be in Hanford
by March 25.
The agency of the Colville Indian
reservation, which has been at Fort
Spokane, Miles postofficey for many
years, will be moved during the spring
to Nespelim.
Frank James, the once famous Mis-
souri, desperado, aged 60, was in Ritz
vile last week looking for work on a
farm. He has suffered a long time
from ill health.
The Columbia county commissioners
passed a resolution recently to raise
the scale of wages paid laborers on the
county roads from So to $3.50 for a
day of eight hours.
A commission to consider the pur-
chase OF $4,000 worth of free textbooks
and supplies to be used in the Walla
Walla city schools next season was
appointed recently.
Mrs. Thomas G. Ward, So years old,
died from injuries received while she
slept when her husband, a millhand
of the same age, peat her on the head
with a claw-hammer during a fit of
insanity, brought On by insomnia.
Congressman J. w. Falconer of this
[Ntate has named James L. Hayden of
Fort Casey in Island county, as his
appointee to West Point academy, and
Carl Pyle of Wenatchee as first alter
nate.
A report from Deer Park states that
the dry kiln of the Standard Lumber
Co., near that place, was completely
Quilted by fire which took place from
spontaneous combustion. The loss is
$4,000.
Missing for 10 days and believed to
be the victim of foul play, Tacoma po-
lice are bending their efforts to find
Mrs. H. H. Rosenthal, a wealthy
woman residing in Othello, who dis
appeared in that city February 20.
After lying in wait more than an
hour in the parlor of the home of P.
Popvich at Ruston, neal the Tacoma
smelter, two deputy sheriffs and two
Ruston officers at an early hour this
morning shot and killed two burglars.
Conference committees have agreed
on the permanent highway levy of IL
mills. Requirements that work be done
NV nnntroot nm tho sl,,Don -,roy
by units were restored. This bill goes
to the governor tomorrow. He favors
it.
Fol the first time in the states his
tory a chief executive personally de-
livered a veto message to the legisla-
ture when Governor Lister Saturday
morning read his disapproval of senate
bill 459, the compromise state Dad
levy.
A fruit demonstration farm, to be as
near as possible the acme of perfec-
ton, calculated to educate growers
and to show Investigators the posi-
b1lities of north central Washington
soil, is the latest project of Louis w.
Hill of the Great Northern railway.
Fred H. Furey will have fullcharge.
With his mind made up with regard
to numerous important federal ap-
pointments in the state of Washington
and the federal ~judgeship in the Phil
ippines for himself practically stored
away in his vest pocket John Pattison,
democratic national committeeman.
is at Spokane from the national CAP
ital.
The largest individual grain pur-
chase in the Inland Empire in several
months was made by l.. C. Lens of
Spokane, who secured $4,000 bushels
OF bluestem wheat from Luther P.
Turner, an extensive farmer near
Mohler, for 80 cents a bushel, 8 cents
above the market. The deal involved
$56,7OO and included Mr.. Turner's en-
tire 1912 crop.