Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-04-25
WASHINGTON STATE

me washington chapter, Il. +. O., i,
10 be held at Arlington June 5, 6 and Z
a 50-eent advance per barrel in tn,
wholesale price of patent flour ha.
caused the retail -four price to soar /.
cents on the sack
Commercial bodies of Seattle mr.,
making extensive preparations to en-
tertain the Northwest Development lea
que in Seattle June 5 to 8.
| The Lincoln county high school track
meet and oratorical contest will be held
IN Wilbur May IL. All nine of the
county high schools will be represented
The improvement spirit has secured a
hrm hold upon Pullman property owners
and talk of pavements and concrete
sidewalk construction is heard ON every
hand.
Two thousand shade trees to be
planted on the streets of Toppenisl
have been purchased by the city and
approximately 1000 have already been
planted.
a report comes from George Chew 3
construction company on Snake river
that Frank r. Wilkinson of this place
was instantly killed recently by the
blowing up of boiler on a dinkey en-.
CINE.
James Brady, wealthy sawmill
operator, and his wife were found dead
IN their bed at their home in Edmonds.
~ miles north of Seattle recently. AID.
parently Mrs Brady had shot her hus.
oand and then had committed suicide
Governor M. E. Hay has issued pro.
clamatlon in response to one sent broad
cast by President Taft, calling for aid
for the sufferers in the flooded districts
OF the lower Mississippi. The pro-
clamation is issued in the name of the
Red Cross society.
Struck by dirt slide in the approacl
to the tunnel which he was construct
ing for the Canadian Northern Rail.
road company at Lytton, B. c., recently,
Thomas Walsh, pioneer contractor and
miner of Spokane, was crushed to
death.
Bichloride of mercury used as an an
tlseptic by Mrs. Gus Richard, Spokane
while bathing last week, was absorbed
by the tissues of the body as a poison
and caused the death of the sufferer at
the hospital. Mrs. Richard formerly
lived at Addy.
The will of Fred Mcclellan, who died
recently at Davenport, was filed for
probate Thursday. The will, which is
a copy of the late E. H. Hartman s
will, leaves all the property to the
widow, Dacy Cheek Mcclellan, there be.
ing no children.
A fatal accident occurred Sunday
evening about 8 miles east of Colfax.
on the Palouse road, when the automo.
bile driven by james. M. Siegel was
overturned, killing his wife, Mrs. Ella
Siegel, instantly, and Mr.. Siegel sus
tanned dislocated shoulder and several
bad bruises. s:
One hundred head of dairy cattle will
be brought. to Toppenish this week by
w. J. Rogers and r. W. Ashton of
Pipestone, Mimi, who recently ..pur-.
chased the stock at st. Paul, MINI,
when they secured 24s head of tuber.
culin tested cows to- be distributed. in
the' Pacific northwest. q. 4
Clarence Dayton Hillman, the Seattle
multi-millionaire real estate dealer was
removed Saturday from the Jail to the
federal prison on McNel's island to
serve sentence of two and one half
years imprisonment. for using the mails
to defraud in connection with his town.
site promotion schemes.
John e. Ballaine, proprietor of the
Seward, Alaska. Daily Gateway, or
ganizer of the Alaska Central railway
and former adjutant general of Wash
ington, announces his candidacy for the
republican nomination for congressman
at. large from Washington, on a plat
form favoring help to Alaska in obtain
ing .Rssystem of government built, gov
ernment-owned and government-oper.
ated railroads. i
Not over $4,000 grain bags are left at
the state penitentiary, according to
Warden c. s. Reed. The estimated out
put of the. jute mill up to the first of
August is 100000 bags, and all but
mere handful have been ordered. All
of these bags have gone into the hands
Of farmers Of Washington. The num-
Der of men employed in the jute mill
is 44o, and the output is approximate
ly 10000 a day. The prison jute bags
are now selling at $3.50 hundred.
Work will be begun May 1 by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway on the construction of a three
mile tunnel through the Cascade noun
tains, it is announced. Workmen are
building bunkhouses at Rockdale, and
as soon as these are completed three
crews of $50 men each will be put to
work on the project, which will cost
nearly 100000. The tunnel will
shorten the line seven miles, and will
eliminate the heavy grade at the sum.
NIT
Roosevelt Wins in Oregon.