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WASHINGTON NOTES Seattle's oldest voter is Charles Prosch. Sixty-eight years ago he cast his ballot for Harrison and Tyler and he has voted in every Presidential election since. He has resided in the state of Washington since 1858. Horse thieves raided the ranch of ex-United States Senator George Turner and Colonel W. M. Ridpath late Republican candidate for the nomination for Governor, on the Co. lumbia river in the Hanford district. There were about a dozen horses on the ranch, most of which were valuable draft animals. Madeline King, who confessed tc having burned the body of her aged husband, was acquitted of the charg of murder by a jury at Port Orchard last week. Mrs. King is about 60 years old, and claimed that she found her husband dead in his chair and that she ended years of torture by him by burning the corpse. By a decision made last week by Judge Huneke, of the Spokane su perior court, social clubs that dispense liquors must take out liquor licenses, the same as saloons. The decision was rendered in the case of the Spokane Club, the most exclusive social organization of its kind in the Inland Empire. Because, as he alleged, his wife six inches taller than he, beat him and threatened his life, Willis E Kincaid was granted a divorce in the Seattle superior court. "I don't think it is safe for a man of your size to live with a woman as large and as belligerent as your wife seems to be," said Judge Frater "The decree is granted." It has been decided that S. C. Cosgrove, Republican candidate for Gov. ernor of Washington, will not take an active personal part in the pres ent campaign. Mr. Cosgrove began his contest for the Governorship nearly two years ago, since which time he has carried on an active, en ergetic campaign, visiting every section of the state and talking personally with thousands of voters. Sixty thousand volts of electricity passed through the body of Harvey Dennis, city claim agent, as he stood in the Seattle city lighting plant, last week, and he was SO badly burned that even if he recovers he may lose his feet and hands. A peculiar fea ture of the accident is the fact that at the time Dennis was relating to a friend about the grounding of the same wire through the body of Finch Haggerty two years ago. After reciting how the State Bank of Washington, capitalized at $25, 000, was organized with but $1000 real money. although the organizers swore three-fifths of the capital stock had been paid in, the state supreme court has affirmed the judgment of the Spokane superior court, by which the receiver of the State Bank will recover $10,000 and interest from the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, of Spokane. Robert Serempus, 20 years old proprietor of a Tacoma dairy, was shot and instantly killed on his ranch by Fred Abei, 18 years of age, who with Fred Conly, two years his junior, was hunting upon the dairyman's land. The bey murderer claims the deed was done in self-defense. After firing the fatal shot, Abel and Conly, without waiting to see wheth er the young dairyman had beer killed, hurried to the homes of their parents by a circuitous route and later were placed under arrest. A Yakima cup as a trophy for an international shoot between the teams of the Duke of Connaught's Own of Canada and the Second Washington is being considered by the North Yakima Commercial Club North Yakima has produced some of the best riflemen in the Northwest Captain J. M. Curry, of Company E at the recent shoot at American Lake, carrying away the world's championship by making 241 out of a possible 250. Lieut. Harry Humphreys, of North Yakima, made the best showing in the state rifle team which went to Camp Perry, Ohio. The members of the crew of the fishing schooner Edric were making final arrangements to sail from Seattle last week, when a yell resounded out of the hold. A sailor burst through the hatch, scrambled over the side and made off before anyone could stop him. While the others were gazing after his retreating form a yowl resounded from the darkness below and a black cat sprang on the deck. One look at the stubtailed green-eyed grimalkin was enough. Every man jack of the crew picked up his bundle and silently departed. Nor can the captain by any means lure one of them back on board. A hard legal question is to be decided by the court at Port Town send as the result of the arrest of a man named Bennett, alleged to be from Seattle, and accused of having for some weeks past been operating