Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-09
WASHINGTON STATE

district.
The annual Waitsburg horse show will
be held May II and IS.
The unions of Spokane are to avoid
strife by taking conservative attitude
toward the open shop.
1t is announced that the O.-W. R. &
N. at Tekoa will be made a transfer
station to transfer freight.
At Seattle, Miss Dean Rice, aged 20,
a seamstress, was killed by an automo-
bile recently when it overturned.
Miss May Vickers, aged II, daugh-
ter of Edward Vickers of Dayton, COM
mitted suicide recently by taking car
bolic acid.
Mangled under the wheels of street
car, Cody Lewis, aged 6 years, the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis, at Spo-
kane, was instantly killed.
Head shaved and CARRIED in convict IS
clothes, Charles w. Wappenstein, for
merly police chief in Seattle, is now
convict No. $3.50 at the state peniten-
tiary.
The Lincoln County Editorial associa-
ton will meet at Davenport May 10, the
same day representatives of the COM
mercial clubs of towns in the county
assemble there.
The board of managers of the Wash
ington State Congress of Mothers and
Parent Teachers association decided at
its meet in Tacoma to hold its next
meet in Spokane.
Henry J. Thola, a rancher on Sum-
road, two miles south of North
Yakima, was so severely stung by
swarm of bees which he was trying to
entice into hive that he died.
Miss Julia Daily, who is believed to
have committed suicide by leaping from
a fifth floor window of hotel in Sc.
attic, was much better known as judith
which was her pen name when
she was society writer for a Seattle
daily paepr.
Frank D. Garrett has purchased from
William E. and J. H. Shook GAO acres
of farm land two and one-half miles
southeast of Davenport for $4,000. The
farm is one of the most highly improved
in Lincoln county and it's buildings
alone are valued at $4,000. All the
farm is under cultivation.
W. J. Page, rancher of the Tieton,
was mortally wounded by an explosion
Of two sticks of dynamite which he
was carrying across field on his ranch
in the Cowiche. Page was engaged in
blasting out holes in which to set fruit
trees at the time of the accident.
A new route from Spokane to the
coast, furnishing an opening for the ore
fields Of Metaline Falls and giving the |
Idaho & Washington Northern an out
ct into Canada and to the coast has
been surveyed by the Canadian Pacific
'ailway from Trail, B. c., to Metaline
Falls.
With the most impressive funeral
service held by Kittitas valley Indians
ince the burial of old Chief Toby, the
BODY of Princess Laura Enia- aich-ick
vas laid to rest on the old Mason ranch.
Practically every Indian in Kittitas
county was in attendance. Princess
laura, the most popular girl of the
few Of the Kittitas tribe, was
TILED on the Yakima reservation while
'ndeavoring to ride an outlaw pony,
which reservation bucks could not han
lie. The animal reared and fell back.
ward, crushing the girl.
The United States reclamation serv-
ce will, on May rs, throw open for
ettlement 1882 acres in the Tieton unit
# the Yakima reclamation project, from
2 to 16 miles west of North Yakima.
If this land 1887 acres are irrigable
nder the government project. The land
as been divided by the government into
1 farm units from 81 to 80 acres each.
The land is the last in the Tieton unit
f the Yakima reclamation project to
'e given to the public by the govern.
nent until the work on the Sunnysde
nit is completed and the tracts there
eady. Each settler who takes land in
he Tieton unit will receive the land
or the fling fee and for living on it
we years. The United States reclama-
ion service has spent $5,s0O,000 ON the
Yakima irrigation project, and expects
o spend 100000 more. Last year
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