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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
3
Practical pruning guidance for fruit trees from Farm Journal. Emphasizes light annual trimming, with peach trees needing more removal than others, while cherries require minimal pruning. Advises proper cuts, avoiding stubs, with painting of wounds and safe limb thinning.
A real estate transfer list from Kennewick covers numerous war deeds and land contracts across sections 25 to 36 in 1909, including parcels in Kennewick Garden Tracts and White Bluffs City. The news also notes Hay names a Democrat appointing John T. Ronald as King County superior judge and reports Governor Hay delaying action on graft charges against KE Mathis of Bellingham Normal School pending regents’ inquiry.
In the early Cuban republic period General Gomez leads with caution and unity. The amnesty bill signed by Gomez frees hundreds of convicts except those who committed the gravest crimes, signaling a move toward stability and avoiding renewed intervention.
Senor Espinosa, Nicaragua's U S minister, says quiet conditions prevail and denies war has begun with San Salvador. He notes Nicaragua will not sever relations with the United States. Meanwhile in Yokohama a Japanese training squadron sails with 180 cadets toward Honolulu and thence San Francisco and Seattle.
Judge Easterday calls a grand jury to meet April 5 to probe Jamieson charges against Mayor Linck and Police Chief Daley over restricted district operations and to examine municipal affairs. Also, Fred Dennet announces transfer of L. R. Gravis to Seattle with field division HQ in Portland to support Alaska service needs.
An auction of discarded furniture from the executive mansion sees items like a wood bed selling for 11 dollars and a revolver case bookcase fetching 6 15 cents amid modest bidding and several bidders including Roseneure Rosewood Reves and Benjamin B. Odell.
The dispatch lists multiple regional notes from Washington and Colfax. Governor Hay signs the local option bill becoming law June 12. Metcalf amendments to the direct primary bill are signed but delayed for further action. Other items include a Whitman county grand jury indictments, Lummi Indians school plan, a Colfax railroad deal, a smallpox epidemic on the Colville reserve, and a pending charges dispute at Pullman college.
Army general staff weighs moving the Department of the Columbia headquarters from Vancouver to Seattle due to Alaska posts and larger supply shipments. General Bell supports Seattle location and the department favors the move, with officers initiating the movement. In Spokane a separate note reports Alamo Colony near Bonners Ferry, Idaho dissolving after four years amid disputes, Bishop McInturff selling land and departing for evangelistic work in North Yakima.
Olympia approves 320000 in appropriations with 30000 for entertaining delegates to the National Irrigation Congress at Spokane next summer. Other items include 190000 for a bridge across the Columbia at Wenatchee 50000 for the Puyallup and Stuck rivers and 50000 for the Columbia river improvements between Kettle Falls and Bridgeport.
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