Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-07-18
NORTHWEST NEWS MOTIFS

E. E. ranch is finished, 5000 sheep being
clipped.
The new $50, 900 rural high school at
Fort Lapwai, Idaho, is to be one Of the
types of rural schools provided with
modern equipment.
Boys and girls under IS years Of age
are being offered some handsome pre-
miums for vegetable displays at the
Spokane Interstate fair this year.
A straight carload of Black Republi.
can cherries was shipped from Clarks-
ton, Wash, Saturday night to Chicago.
A second car of the late variety of cher
ries goes this week.
Fourteen carloads of cattle and hogs
were brought down from the Camas
prairie country to North Lapwai, Idaho,
Saturday, where they were picked up
by stock train and taken to Spokane
and other points.
With the second and third battalions
of the Fourteenth infantry and the full
regiment, Second infantry, National
Guards of Montana, in encampment, the
military reservation at Fort William
Henry Harrison presents wartime
scene.
At Grand Forks, B. c., only one dis
senting vote was cast recently on the
proposed issuance of $4,000 worth of
debentures to meet the expenditure nee
essary for the construction of the new
reservoir to serve the city with an ade-
quate water supply.
Notwithstanding the Montana Elks'
band Of Kalispell, Mont, won the Sec
ond prize Of $500 in cash in both pre-
.liminary and final contests at the Elks ,
national convention in Portland, they
will have trouble getting the money, it
is reported. Some labor trouble.
All exhibits for the Upper Potlatch
fair, to be held at Deary, Idaho, Septem-
Der 1921, will be carried by the Wash
ington, Idaho & Montana railroad free
of cost. This will bring a considerable
exhibit of livestock from the Prince.
ton, Harvard, Potlatch and Palouse ter
ritories.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-The convention Of
the Master Plumbers association of Col
orado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Utah
and Wyoming adjourned Saturday after
electing officers. The new officers, all
of Colorado, are: N. w. Haas, presi
dent; A. P. Gumlick, vice president
John F. Wallace, secretary-treasurer.
Dick Strand, athlete, who was
drowned at Sacramento, Calf, recently
while bathing in the river, was a resi-
dent of Spokane for five years, remov
ing to California only short time ago
He came with his relatives from Effing
ton, s. D., in 1902 when II years of age
His father, 7. N. Strand, is resident
of Deer Park, Wash.
Ottawa, Ontario.-The province Of
Saskatchewan has reaffirmed its wish fol
reciprocity with the United States by
vote Of about five to one. Latest fig
ures indicate the return in the provin
cial elections there Of 40 liberals ani
eight conservatives, with four seats il
doubt. The reciprocity sentiment il
likely to sweep Alberta province also
J. Herbert Anderson of Spokane, pres
ident Of the Idaho Smelling and Rein
ing company, is one Of the organizers O.
100000 corporation that proposes
to develop 1000 acres of land in Mon
tana. The incorporation papers for tn
company, to be known as the Belg,
American corporation, were fled re
Gently. Edward Donlan, wealthy lant
owner Of Montana, is president.
Roscoe Haines, acting supervisor O.
the Occur d'Alene forest, is in Wal
lace and is distributing the $4,000
which was granted by congress for tn
heirs of the victims Of the fires whicl
swept this district two years ago. H
has found the majority Of the heirs an,
yesterday delivered a check of $10o
to Mrs. James Kerr Of Lewiston, who's
husband was one Of the victims nea
Wallace.
To carry water through a 12,413-foo
tunnel under portion Of the Blu
mountains from Camas creek to Butte
creek and thence by irrigation canal
to $4,000 acres comprised in it's projec
west Of Echo and Stanfeld, Oregon, i
the purpose of corporation whose petit
tions for incorporation were granted re
Gently by the county court. This is t.
be known as the Teel project, in homo
Of o. D. Teel, resident Of Echo ant
one of the pioneer irrigators Of eastern
Oregon.
Business men Of Great Falls, Mont.
have organized $780, 900 railroad com
pany to construct a line to the Ell
Creek coal fields, from Ulm. The corpo
ration, for which the largest portion
Of the capital has already been sub
scribed, is headed by Albert Kunkel, b
H. Piggott and Leroy Rooms, men VIII
are we'll known in Montana. The Ell
Creek Coal and Railroad company i
the name taken, and the company own
several thousand acres Of coal lands
The railroad will be 40 miles long.