Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-03
WASHINGTON STATE

Mr.. Latter has arrived at Farming
ton from Seattle to open vinegar
factory.
The special election at Pennington
to bond the town for $4,000 was car
ried, 80 to "a.
Success has marked the fair at Col
vile, both in point of attendance and
extent and variety of exh bits.
The second annual three-day exhibit
OF the grange agricultural fair at Hun
tiers, Wash, was fine display.
B. R. Barton of Spokane answered
to 81 years when the clerk asked how
old he was when he registered to vote.
Mrs. J. P. M. Richards, aged 55
years, wife of the president of the
Spokane & Eastern Trust company, at
Spokane, is dead.
The new building of the Knights of
Pythias built at Pasco, Wash, at a
cost Of over $4,000 will be dedicated
in December, according to present
plans.
More than 1000 railway trainmen,
their wives and families attended the
dedication of trainmen's monument
at Greenwood cemetery, Spokane, Sun
day afternoon.
The 100000 Masonic temple building
in North Yakima Wash, was dedi-
Gated recently by Grand Master Frank
N. McCandlass of Tacoma in the pres.
ence of 300 Masons.
Fred S. Merrill, a pioneer of Spo-
kane, died Sunday following an opera
ton. Mr.. Merrill was a native of
Pennington, Me-, and was a direct de-
scendant of Lyman Abbott.
What to do with the immense fruit
crop is worrying orchard owners of
Whitman county. 1t Is estimated there
are 100 carloads of excellent apples in
the neighborhood of Pennington, yet
there seems to be no demand.
Seventy-five per cent of the single
mills In western Washington have shut
down for an indefinite period, the mill
men believing that the curtailment
will prevent break in prices and will
enable the manufacturers to clean up
old stock.
Saturday was pledge day at the Uni
versity of Washington, and as the
goods passed up the boulevard to the
Greek letter sorority houses they had
elected to join the fraternity men dot
ted the thoroughfare and cheered them
as they passed.
| A freight wreck occurred on the
Mansfield branch of the Great North
ern railroad Sunday evening one mile
north of the Palisades, and almost d.
rectly over old Chief Moses cave. A
wheel broke on car and derailed
four cars filled with wheat. No one
was seriously injured.
D. L. Dutton of Rosala has bought
car of heavy draft horses. Some of
the teams brought as high as 5000.
The horses were shipped to Chicago.
The hog and cattle buyers have
shipped several carloads of hogs to
the Spokane market recently. The
price paid ranged from cents to 10
cents.
In reply to telegram from George
E. Barstow. past president, and four
members of the board of governors of
the National Irrigation congress, at
Salt Lake City, this week, urging him
to accept the presidency of that body
to succeed Senator Newlands, Cover
nor Marion E. Hay telegraphed that
he would accept if the post were ten
dered him.
The order made by the public SER
vice commission establishing the prin-
ciple that the maximum freight rates
charged by railroads operating within
Washington state are determinable by
virtue Of the distance of the haul was
upheld recently by Superior Judge
yesterday in Diminishing the suit
brought by the Northern Pacific rail-
way against the commission.
Counties Taxes to State.
olympia.-The various counties will
pay their share of the general state
taxes, according to the ruling of the
state board Of equalization. The
amounts follow:
Adams, $133,9S3; Asotin, $36, 49S;
Benton, $S9,929; Chelan, $1OO,239; Co
lumbia, $51.3S2; Douglas, $500; Ferry,
S17,S35; Franklin, $64,477; Garfield,
$3O,3S5; Grant, $94,S24; Kittitas, $113,-
9s7; Klickitat, $7S,653; Lincoln, S14S,-
1852; Okanogan, $4O,1SS; Pend Oreille,
$39,79O; Spokane, $710,o70; Stevens,
$63,S31; Walla Walla, $1S2,257; Whit
man. $24S,294; Yakima, s199.677.