Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-08-01
WASHINGTON STATE

| " Nv PioNuSSu III INC AlttltaS Nalle,
this year.
County .treasurers of the state will
hold convention in Spokane Septem
Der Is, 10 and 20.
The estate of DR.. w. IL. Olds, VIII
was shot and killed by his wife at Spo
Kane, was appraised at $4,000.
At the end of 10 months there ar
4S9 depositors in Uncle Sam S posta
savings bank in Spokane, whose depos
ITS amount to $43,749.
The horses in the Cornell district
which have been suffering from influ
enza, have practically recovered an,
the disease has disappeared
The latest step in the sanitary cam
paign in North Yakima is the enforce
ment of the laws requiring all dair,
cows to be tuberculin tested
Judge w. w. Black, democrat, TO
eight years judge of the superior cour
of Snohomish county, has announce,
his candidacy for governor of Washing
ton.
Paul Grasso and James Rossei, sec
ton men on the S. & B. C. railway
were drowned in Kettle river near Dan
vile, Saturday, at the noon hour, Will.
in bathing.
The Spokane city council committee
appointed to investigate and report on
the ACCESSIBILITY of general city store
will render report favorable to the
proposition.
Mystery surrounds the sudden disap.
pearance of Joe Smith, aged 10 years,
totally blind, who was placed on q
train at Wenatchee and started for his
home in Spokane.
The special bond election held at
Prosser for bonding school district No.
IL for $4,000 for the erection of new
modern school building carried by a
vote of over two to one.
John b. Curtis, telegraph operator,
who escaped from the custody of Sher-
iii German as he was being brought
across the Cascades in June, 1911, was
captured in Seattle recently.
Among the most prominent summer
school students at the University of
Washington, is DR.. Edwin Frazier, SO
years old, who works harder and more
enthusiastically than any one in the
chemistry department.
At Everett August 8, 4, and 6,
will compete the singing societies of the
facific coast at the annual sangerfest
Singing societies from Washington,
California, Oregon, Montana and Brit
ish Columbia will compete.
The largest display of fancy table
grapes ever assembled in the northwest
will be shown at Kennewick at the
second annual Columbia river grape
carnival, which will be held in that
city September 1921.
Five persons afflicted with smallpox
were apprehended on the streets at
Wenatchee Saturday, and large num-
Der of persons suspected of having the
disease are under surveillance. A seri.
Gus outbreak is feared.
Mrs. A. Moller, of Madison, Wis, and
young man believed to be Charles
Bears of Shelton, Wash, were drowned
in the Wishkah river, near Aberdeen,
Sunday. Bears died in trying to save
Mrs. Moller, his act being one of pure
heroism.
John L. Druse, farm hand living
near North Yakima, was killed Satur.
day, when he lifted high-yoltage
power wire with a pitchfork to allow
a load of hay to pass under it. James
bunnell, his employer, caught Druse as
he fell and received shock which may
cause his death.
J. L. Irwin, one of Colfax's best
known citizens, was instantly killed
Saturday morning when his automobile
ran off a bank in the south end of
town and the car turned completely
over. Irwin IS head was crushed and
his hands and body badly bruised.
Dedtn was instantaneous.
Water has been turned into the new
reservoir constructed at Walla
Walla, marking the completion of one
If the unique development projects of
The Walla Walla valley. This is the
irst instance in the Walla Walla val
ey where an artesian we'll s flow is
being conserved for use in irrigating
! tract.
With the sudden death from pneu-
nonia of Judge William T. Warren
saturday afternoon at Davenport, one
# the best known jurists in Washing
on, pioneer of the Lincoln county bar
md leading citizen of the city, and
county, passed away. After
oath few days ago the Judge sat in
ront of an electric fan and pneumonia
esulted. Judge Warren was As years
I'D, leaves a widow and six children,
hree boys and as many daughters. He
vas Mason, Elk, Odd Fellow, Knight
# Pythias and Woodman, and stipu-
ated in his will that obsequies be held
~ the Masons. Funeral was held