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

The annual potato carnival at Water.
vile this week.
Despite the low price of wheat heavy
sales are being made in Whitman coun-
4 ty.
The next session of the Federation
of Yakima Valley Commercial Clubs is
to be held October Is in Toppensh.
Mrs. Mary A. Hoffman of Roc1lyn
has sold her ranch of APO acres to Ed
ward Boyk, recent arrival from Min
nesota, for $4,000.
Fourteen seconds was the time taken
by John Tyacke, an Oklahoma cowbay,
to bulldog steer at the Toppenish
Indian fair and roundup.
Albert Schwarzer ladderman in
the Tacoma fire department, was run
over by a fire engine and instantly
killed Sunday afternoon.
meeting of the Palouse local of the
farmers educational and cooperative
union has been called for October 70.
at Palouse, to consider purchasing
grain sacks for next years crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Chapman, aged
residents of Pullman, were seriously
hurt Sunday evening when their driv-
ing horse ran away, throwing them
and their daughter out into the road.
The maneuvers just held in Chin.
acum valley by IL companies of coast
artillery demonstrated that Fort Wor-
den, the. key to Puget sound, could not
be taken by a rear attack of hostile
fleet.
Fifty more appeals are now ready
for trial at the term of the state SUI
preme court beginning October IA than
can be reached, so they have had to
be postponed until the term beginning
n January.
Victor Dagan, 80 years old, while in
faint fell from second-story window
OF a downtown office building in Seat
tie and landed in a network of tele-
phone wires, where he lay suspended
in midair until rescued.
Willis Kirby, 17-year-old son of
Banker Lee Kirby of Kahlotus, was
drown in Lake kahlotus Sunday while
hunting ducks i'll company with his
two younger brothers. He took a
cramp while swimming.
Fred Barry Strong. aged "a, the "col-
lege burglar who, after his arrest on
broken into % Seattle houses and
stolen articles worth $3000 said that
his parents live in Columbus. Ohio
The commercial club of st. John
Will hold it's carnival October rs and
&c and many prizes will be awarded in
the corn and potato contest and the
O.-W. r. & N. company has presented
a silver cup for the best dozen ears
of corn.
Not only is the fruit crop in the
Wenatchee valley the largest ever pro-
duced in this section, but the wheat
growers across the Columbia river, in
Douglas county, have also experienced
one OF the largest crops of wheat in
several years.
Viola Luretta Van Buskirk, years
old, was sho and killed at Mamas,
near Vancouver, Wash, by Gerald
13-year-old boy, who was
handling a small rifle. The lad claimed
he had unloaded the gun, but that
some one else had loaded 1t unknown
to him.
At the request of Louis w. Hill Of I
the Great Northern railway the rabbit
drive at oses lake has been post
poned until October Is, in. order to
afford Mr.. Hill and his suite an oppor-
unity to see the drive during their
inspection tour through the Moses lake
district
Charles Isecke, one of the foremost
pioneers of Asotin county, president
If the Bank of Asotin, died recently.
Mr.. Isecke has been resident of Aso-
in county since 1877. He resided at
Anatone and was one of the first men
o engage in business in southeastern
Since 1887 he has resid-
ID In Asotin.
-Four transcontinental railroads,
through their representatives in con-
erence with Spokane shippers, drew
Up and signed contract, wherein they
greed to reimburse Spokane shippers
or any oyercharge they are subjected
o, pending the ordering In of higher
oast rate by the interstate commerce
some time in December.