Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-07-04
WASHINGTON STATE
Alexander A. Dunphy, aged II years,
4 pioneer of Spokane, died recently.


Water in the new city well at Gar.
field was struck at depth of 336 feet.
There were 1915 marriage licenses
issued in the state of Washington dur
ing the year 1912.
A. G. Moore, 81, a native of Arkan-
sas and for Is years a resident of DAY.
export, died at his home recently.
Eleven carloads Of cherries were
shipped from North Yakima to the
Chicago markets between June 20 and
80.
The state has $2,667, 492 cash on
hand. Receipts for last week were
$256,066, and disbursements were $261,-
O28.
Nine Indian boys and girls gradu-
ated recently from the Yakima Indian
reservation school at Fort Simcoe,
about ~ miles west Of Toppenish.
The Wisconsin Society Of the Inland
Empire will give it's annual picnic at
Natatorium park, Spokane, July IL, and
all former Badgerites are expected.
All convicts who have been working
on roads have been sent back to the
state penitentiary to make bags to
supply the demand of the farmers.
Fred Hoefel lies with fractured
skull, his wife is unconscious and Mrs.
Christ Reiker is severely injured as a
result of an automobile accident Sun
day afternoon, when Christ Reiker 3
machine overturned on piece of level
road five miles west Of Ritzville.
Writing in an agony of pain and
seized with one CONFUSION after an
other, Mrs. Herman Eden, aged 35
years, wife Of wealthy Peone prairie
farmer died near Spokane from eating
raisins, by mistake, which had been
treated with poison to kill squirrels.
Members of the state board of con-
troll met in quarterly session at the
state penitentiary for the considera.
ton of pardons, paroles and other mat.
tiers at the penitentiary this week
such as the operation of the jute mill
and the newly established prison
school.
Professor Paul White, head of the
state college agronomy department, re-
ports the crop conditions on the college
experiment farm as being the best il
years. The plans for the present sea
son include the raising of larg,
amount of seed for distribution through
out the state.
More than 800 delegates were pres
ent at the Christian Endeavor conven
ton at Tacoma last week. Nortl
Yakima was selected as the place fo
holding the 1913 convention of tn,
Washington-Idaho Christian Endeavol
union. The Rev. E. A. King of Nortl
Yakima is president.
Z. G. Cleveland, rancher near Nortl
Yakima, was recently tried and found
guilty in Justice IS court of refusing tt
obey the notice of Assistant Horticul
tural Inspector G. G. Horner to prunt
his pear and apple orchard to rid it Of
pear blight. He was given minimum
fine of $50 and costs. The case will b,
appealed.
| A. +. SCHNEIDER, assistant cashier OF
the Fidelity State bank at Uniontown
left home June 90, presumably for al
outing in the vicinity of Occur d'Alens
and st. Joe, Idaho, and has not beer
heard from since. The stockholders Of
the bank have made good deficiency
of $4,000 without disturbing the re
serve fund.
A man working for railroad com
pany is not expected to strain himself
declares the state supreme court. Irs
Irwin was ordered to throw handcal
off the tracks to get it out of the way
of fast coming locomotive. The en-
| CINE was close. Irwin strained a hernia
and sued for damages. The court says
he can not recover because of contribu
tory negligence.
Frauds, the filing of fake deeds and
inducing two aged and feeble men tc
appoint designing relatives to the con
troll of their property are charged in
a complaint made in the superior
court for Walla Walla county recently
seeking to quiet title to $500 acres OF
the Lamar estate. The suit is brought
by II. s. jackson, administrator of the
estates of James Lamar and JOSEPH
Lamar, against Bessie Lamar, admin
istratrix of the estate of David Lamar
David Lamar S estate being the alleged
fraudulently transferred property OF
James c. and Joseph Lamar. The
amount involved is $4,000, represent
ing the annual proceeds from the es
tate for six years, withheld from Jack.
son as administrator, and the land be,
sides.