The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-05-07
WASHINGTON news NOTES
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Treasury Has $4,000, 900.


golden wedding at their home in FL
tCpia.
1eatie Quits Whitworth.
SPOKANE.-Dr. Arthur Y. Beatie,
| president of Whitworth college ten
dered his resignation as head of that
institution, effective May l.
Quits Penitentiary Job.
| WALLA WAIALA.-D. e. Nicholson
Identification expert and secretary to
Warden Drum at the penitentiary, has
resigned. effective May Is, and will go
to Colorado.
Sunday School Convention.
| DAVENPORT.-Oneo OF the five Sun
day school conventions for the Inland
Empire for the month of May will be
held in Davenport Monday and Tues
day, May 10 and II, under the aus
pices of the Lincoln County Sunday
School association.
State Banners Meet June II.
Dates OF the Washington State Bank.
ers' association annual convention in
Seattle have been advanced one week
to June II and IL, instead of June Is
and 10.
Cheney Normal Program.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Cheney
The general plan for the coming
The exercises will be held the evening
OF May q. The week preceding is
given over to events common to such
occasions.
Harbart Ranch Sold.
WALLA WALLA.-The j. w. Har
bart ranch Of 1875 acres was sold al
auction May l to William Bowe fol
$237 900, or at the rate of about SITE
: an acre. The ranch is located about
four miles east of Walla Walla or
, Mill creek.
Frank kappert's Crazy Act.
SUNNY SIDE.-Believed crazed by
jealousy, Frank Rapport, proprietor
of a waffle house at Yakima, came
: here and attempted to kill his wifi
and 5-month-old baby, then turned thu
+. gun on himself. Rapport died sool
, after. His wife may live but thu
/ baby, will die.
University Debaters Win.
. SEATTLE.-Universi of Washing
ton debaters, arguing the affirmative
of the question: Resolved, that thu
q Paris peace conference should hav'
:, awarded the province Of Shantung t.
China" won unanimous decision owe
4 the Oregon Agricultural college team
J.. here.
: Minimum Wage Unchanged.
OLYMPIA.-After being deadlocke
two days, the conferees considering
the question of raising the minimum
I wage for women and minors workin
in the manufacturing industries of tn
state adjourned May 1 after failur
to agree upon a wage.
Barn Burns, $4,000 Loss.
i OAKESDALE.-J w. Martin, owl
j. err and Roland Stankey, renter of
farm adjoining town on the nortl
n were heavy losers in a barn fire r,
d Gently. Some children playing at tn
barn with matches set fire to the ha
" and the whole building was soon
# mass of flames. Four thousand do
lars will hardly replace the barn an
r. contents at present prices. Small il
" surance.
Lay Stone Of New Capitol.
IS OLYMPIA-The cornerstone for tn
E. second building of what is destine
r to be the most beautiful capitol in tn
U. S. was laid Friday afternoon, wit
S. Grand Master T. E. Skaggs of tn
a. grand lodge, F.. & A M. of Washin
n ton officiating. Thousands of either
from all over the state witnessed tn
al ceremonies and listened to the histor
" of the capitol group plan as told b
e. Governor Louis F. Hart.
Ia Cashmere Apple Company Sale.
WENATCHEE.-A deal has bee
- consummated for the purchase of a
% assets of the Cashmere Apple compar
81 by A. H. Bohlke, principal owner .
- the Bohlke Fruit Warehouse compaI
of Dryden. Mr.. Bohlke takes over tt
80 two modern warehouses owned by I'll
:, Cashmere Apple company at Cashmel
=, and Wenatchee, also real estate CO
" tracts covering some of the most pr
70 ductive and highly improved bearir
% orchards in the Wenatchee valley tt
consideration was $1S5.000
at Runaway Train Kills Four.
n, SEATTLE.-Four men were kille
b. instantly and "a others injured, tv
IS, perhaps fatally, when a runaway trai
I'd operated by the North Bend Lumb'
D. company, was derailed at a curv
is three miles from North Bend, Wasl
RS April 80 The dead:
Harry Fleming, engineer; JOSEF
Finnigan, William J. Hailwood al