Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-31
WASHINGTON STATE

With capacity of four and a ha If
tons of raw apples per day Ellens-
burg's new $4,000 evaporation opened
Saturday.
Mayor w. J. Hindley delivered the
official address at the laying of the
cornerstone at the new city hall, Spo-
kane, Saturday.
Reversing the King county superior
court, the supreme court by recent
decision enjoined the holding of any
wet and dry election at Kent.
Gymnasi m night schools where the
shop girl may don her boomers and
frolic to her hearts content have been
opened at Spokanes high school.
After harvesting and storing 1000
sacks of wheat from his 1000 acre
ranch, Girard Clark, Colfax farmer,
has 5000 sacks of wheat and no place
to put it.
A plan is developing at Winona to
hold rattle and encourage matrimohy
by disposing of some of the bachelors
of the community to manageable
young women by lot.
All the single mills of Washington,
which have been shut down for 80
days to steady the market, which
showed signs of weakening. resume ed
operations Monday morning.
The Pasco lodge of the Knights of
Pythias will hold one of the biggest
house warnings in celebration of the
completion of the new $4,000 castle
hall Thursday night of this week.
Last year the total amount raised by
taxation in Whitman county including
state, county, school districts, road
districts and municipalities was $685.
1855. This year the total tax to be
raised is $S50,175.
The state supreme court has denied
the application of Sam B. Sill of Wa
terville to have his name placed on
the non-partisan judiciary ticket of
Douglas and Grant counties through
mandamus proceedings against l. M.
Howell, secretary of state.
The students of the University of
Washington who protested against the
acceptance of a gift of $4,000 chimes
from Alden j. Blethen on the ground
that the gift was tainted" were beat
en-. The chimes have been formally
accepted in the face of the student
protest.
A joint committee of disinterested
bankers and business men of North
Yakima will meet this week to take
the first. steps toward an amalgarha-
ton of the two big cooperative fruit
selling agencies of the Yakima valley,
the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers as
ISOLATION and the Yakima County Hor-
ticultural union.
President N. R. Sibley of the Wen
atchee Ice, Cold Storage and Canning
company announces that his corpora
ton will Immediately rebuild the big
plant that was burned recently. Sib-
ley declares that insurance policies
amounting to $4,000 cover 80 per
cent of the loss on the plant, but that
the chief loss is about $4,000 worth of
business.
Emil Sorenson, who was arrested
at Seattle, recently, charged with
opium smuggling, was pardoned from
federal prison less than six months
ago by President Taft on the recon-
mendation of customs officers after he
had been convicted of smuggling
opium. Sorenson's new offense is al
legged to have been committed in part
nership with H. Benson, who was ar
rested with yalise containing $4,000
worth of opium.
Vincenzo Perrino and Diamico Oct,
strkebreaking coal miners employed
by the Puget Sound Traction, Light
and Power company at Renton, who
were alleged to have been restrained
OF their liberty by the company, ap-
peared in the superior court and said
that they We're not being deprived of
any right. Carmelo Spezzi, a striker,
brought habeas corpus proceedings re-
Gently, alleging that Perrino and Oct
We're held prisoners in the companys
stockade at Renton.
Denouncing the claims of Miss Mary
Burkett of Olympia, who had been en-
gagged to marry George F. Vance a
brakeman, accidentally killed at Alder
four weeks ago, who had been given
a verbal and tentative will for all of
Vance's property, Mrs. George F.
Vance of Portland came hurriedly to
Tacoma and had Vance's remains ex-
humed. She proved to the satisfaction
of the officials that she was the right.
full wife of the brakeman and all his
personal effects were turned over to
her.
George Wesley Brown, who, with his
wife, Winnie Brown, were found not
guilty of the charge of numbering AL.
fred Neeves, the wfe's father, because
the pair were suffering from insanity
at the time of the deed, was remanded
by Judge Neill to the insane ward Of
the state penitentiary for life, or until
such time as he Is adiudged sane. It
is understood that since the trial
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