Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-30
WASHINGTON STATE

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ian church to cost not less than $15.-
600.
| Dentists from all over the state of
Washington are in session at Spokane
this week.
Electric light rates in North Yak
ina will be reduced soon from IL cents
per kilowat hour to 10 cents.
An innovation in the routine of life
IN the town of Davenport will be mar
ket day, the first of which will be held
June 1.
Phoenix, Ariz.-Howard H.. Lewis, a
prominent Seattle attorney and real es.
tate man, aged So, died in Phoenix.
Ariz., Sunday.
Z. Z. Lewis, pioneer of Waterville,
is dead. He was 95 years old March
10 and was familiar figure in Water
vile at public functions.
Work has started on the erection bv
the Yakima Evaporating company of a
plant which will have capacity of 80
tons of green apples daily.
People having contributed practically
$4,000 to the "saving Whitman col
lege" campaign, plans are being made
for canvassing outside points.
William Dawley, aged IS, steeple-
jack, well known on the Coast, fell rs
feet at Seattle when painting the steel
smokestack of rendering plant on
Harbor island and was probably fatally
injured.
With IA teams in the field, a number
In excess of that ever participating in
any past meet, the seventh annual
tournament of the Inland Volunteer
Firemen's association will be held at
Rltzville June 4, 5 and 6.
With assets of $5s,344,344 and with
total debt of $14,S94,2s0 Seattle s
credit is still good for $4,31s,O35. The
latter amount represents the capital
surplus of the city shown by the city
comptroller. The assessed valuation of
the city for 1911 is $211, 7,O76.
Formal proclamation of the trans
forming Of Gonzaga college at Spo-
kane into university is to be made
during the Silver Jubilee celebration
on June 10, 20 and 21, when the twenty.
fifth anniversary of the founding of
the institution is to be celebrated.
With tears of gratitude in his eyes
and SO overcome with joy that for a
moment he could scarcely talk, Arthur
Ash, on trial in the superior court at
Spokane on a charge of killing James
Boon on ranch near Sprague, Wash.
heard the verdict of "not guilty.
Charles S. Barrett of Union. Ga.
president of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union of America.
was in Spokane Tuesday of this week
to attend the annual session of the
Washington State Farmers union. to
be held in this city, commencing that
day.
After lying at the point of death as
the result of advanced age for several
days, Moses Brinkerhoff, age 81 years.
one OF the first conductors to punch
ticket on the Northern Pacific at st.
Paul, and the oldest railroad man from
point Of service in the United States.
died at Spokane, Sunday.
Spreading with insidious and incur.
able persistence to the cells of her
brain, frequently inducing mental de-
rangement and physical suffering.
acetanilid poisining, created by taking
headache tablets, caused the death Fri.
day of Mrs. Emma Maggie Clay, aged
40 years, at Spokane. She leaves a
husband and six young children.
A stranger entered the office of the
sheriff of Kittitas county recently and
after standing around for few mo-
ments, walked over to the big iron
safe, upon which rested the sheriff g
vest, removed Sheriff German IS watch
and chain, and walked out of the office.
Five men were in the room at the time,
and none of them observed the theft,
Mrs. Nancy Jacobs, survivor of the
Whitman massacre in 1s4s, told her
experiences in the massacre at the an.
nual meeting of the Inland Empire Pho.
neers' association at Whitman, Me.
mortal day, May 20, at Walla Walla.
Mrs. Jacobs escaped from the Indians
by hiding beneath the floor of the
Whitman home. She was small girl