Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
WASHINGTON STATE

The O.-W. R. & N. has just finished
stockyard at Albion, Whitman county.
Pend Oreille county and state tax
levies for 1912 will be 16 mills, as COM
pared with 81 mills for 1911.
The next session of congress will, it
is reported, be asked to appropriate
$10,000,O00 for the Palouse irrigation
project
The worst wind and dust storm ex-
perienced in many months swept over
the central and Palouse sections Sat
urday.
The first snowstorm of the season
prevailed in several points in Stevens
county Friday night, about two inches
falling.
DR.. Edwin Lincoln House, pastor of
the Westminster Congregational
church, Spokane, since March l, 1907,
has resigned.
The total registration for the incor-
porated towns OF Pend Oreille county
is as follows: Newport, 1893; lone.
$50; Metaline Falls, 141.
Gus Wall, well-to-do farmer, living
six miles north of Wilbur, fell from
his wagon Saturday afternoon while
driving home with load of coal and
was killed.
Four thousand head of beef cattle,
bought in Montana for Seattle COM
pany, will be fed this winter on Yaki-
ma reservation alfalfa hay, that COM
pany having started it's shipments to
Toppenish from the ranges.
Superior Judge Thomas e. Grady has
denied the suit for an injunction
brought by Tilton Phillips to restrain
the mayor and city council from call
ing local option election at Mabton,
which is now without saloons.
The state general fund is down to
$29,O25, according to the weekly re-
port. The military fund contains $685.
1853 cash and the highway funds about
100000. In all funds there are ST.
425,336 cash. Receipts for the week
were $77,1S0, and disbursements were
SSS,029.
Charles H. Harris, aged 73, negro,
who before the was was a slave of
the noted Darlington family of Rich
mond, Va, was convicted Saturday at
Seattle of murder in the first degree
for shooting James Hammond, a negro
fellow workingman in gas works on
July Is last.
The United States government is
planning the erection of a big dam
across the west end of Conconully lake,
which will enable them to raise the
lake 10 feet higher than is now posi-
Bile. The waters of the lake are used
for irrigating Pogue flat and adjoining
districts during July and august.
1t is a far cry back to the days of
the civil war, but those troublous times
were brought wildly to the mind of
Mrs. M. j. Grouse of Palouse city when
she received word last week that the
pension claim of her first husband,
made in 1871, or Al years ago, had
been acted upon favorably by the de-
partment.
This week marks the finish of the
1912 harvest in the Big Bend section.
The combined harvesters finished
about two weeks ago. The farmers
are pleased with the crop this year,
the average yield being about "a BUSH
els to the acre. The average yield
for the last four years has been about
15 bushels.
Ladies who attend the fifteenth an
nual convention of the American Min
ing congress in Spokane, November
1929, whether delegates or relatives
of delegates, will be thoroughly enter
tanned during their stay in the city.
Dorothy Slater, Is years of age, was
accidentally killed at Spokane Satur-
day by falling down an elevator shaft
Capitol building lands are subject
to mineral leases and contracts exc
cuted by the state land commissioner,
according to an official opinion rem
dered by the attorney general. Under
state law prospectors may get leases
where they discover mineral, and then
when prospecting develops mine a
mineral contract will be issued under
provisions by which the state receives
a royalty on the ore taken out.
The second apportionment of state
school funds this year, made Saturday
by Superintendent Dewey. aggregated
$243,4o1, of which the following
went to the counties named:
Spokane, $685.; Adams, 1881: Aso-
tin, $1615; Benton, $2o16 Chelan.
s3Sl5; Columbia, 1882; Douglas.
s23l4; Ferry, sS97; Franklin, $1199;
Garfield, $1052; Grant, $2l59; Kittitas.
S4lo3; klickitat, $236S; Lincoln, $4693:
okanogan, $2736; Pend Oreille. 5000:
stevens. s4715; Walla Walla, $59ss;
$3.50; Yakima, $10,352.