Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-04-18
WASHINGTON STATE


The movement for good roads is bein,
agitated extensively in Chelan county
A train killed Ed Thorndike, former
" town marshal of Seattle, in terri
torial days, last Sunday
Additional service is ordered estab
lished May on the rural route at Pom
eroy, to serve $50 families.
Contracts have been let for an add
tional 25 miles of grading on the Kettl,
Valley railway west of Carmi.
The shearing of 10000 sheep nea
Pasco has been practically completed
and the movement of wool has already
began.
Taxicabs have succeeded buses al
Spokane, as II hotels have entered com
pact to abandon private vehicles to de
pots.
Governor Hay appointed Everett
Smith, prominent Seattle attorney, as
judge Of the superior court to succeed
William R. Gay, resigned.
Il. G. Hamshaw, aged 30 years, a
mining man Of Atlin, B. c., and Los
Angeles, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself at Seattle, Sunday.
Seventy-fve miles Of suburban roads
were covered by the volunteer good
roads crews of Spokane, which gave a
practical celebration of the state good
roads day.
John F. Clark, son of Patsy Clark,
the millionaire mining man, and Miss
Cicely Hogan, popular society girl of
Spokane, will be married Tuesday, April
80, at San Francisco.
Total receipts of $45s,733, Of which
$446,046 was for real and person taxes
and improvements, are reported for
March by County Treasurer Frank
Bond at North Yakima.
Mrs. Fleta Brett Laurence, the wife
of G. G. Laurence, Jr., who took biehlo-
ride tablets with suicidal intent, died
Sunday morning at Spokane. She was q
divorced wife Of Frnka D. Allen of Spo.
kane.
G. G. Wallace, private banker of Ket.
tie Falls and Republic, who was ar
rested April at Kettle Falls by Sher.
if Moran of Ferry county and placed in
Jail, has been released on the acceptance
of a $1,000 bond.
The Cove schoolhouse, near Ellens
burg, one Of the Oldest school build
ings in the valley, was totally destroyed
by fire recently. The building is fully
covered by insurance, and the loss il
estimated at $4,000.
Hounded, her husband says, by threat
ening letters from a former lover who
beseeched her to elope with him, Mrs
Josephine Merritt, wife of Clarence w
Merritt, and bride of but month, com
mitted suicide in Tacoma recently.
Ten thousand acres more of Wen
atchee valley land will be placed under
water through the construction Of the
irrigation projects now under way in
this section, the greater portion OF
which will be completed this season.
An endurance egg-laying contest fol
hens of the Yakima valley and Washing
ton will be held in North Yakima this
summer by the Washington State fair
The contest will last 60 days, ending
noon, September 26, the fourth day OF
the week of fha fair
State Auditor Clausen has prepared a
printed statement for free distribution
showing each detail of the state gen.
eral fund appropriations made by the
last legislature, the expenditures for the
first year, the period ending March 10,
1912, and in connection a statement
showing which of the offices have been
collecting revenue and how much.
The state supreme court has reversed
the conviction of Peter Miller, found
guilty in Pierce county on a change of
venue Of an alleged robbery in Seattle.
The supreme court reversed conviction
of Miller before on the ground that an
alleged confession was secured by
third degree" methods. The admission
of this confession in the Tacoma trial
was an error, holds the supreme court
in the decision handed down. Miller
declared he was kept in dark cell and
beaten by the Seattle police until he
confessed. The defendant is to be tried
again.
The body of Carson Long, SON Of
Alderman T. X. Long of Chicago, who
from North Yakima March
$, was found Friday night in the Yak
ina river, five miles below North Yak
ina. Both legs and one arm were bro
ken, and it is believed Long was
Knocked off Pomona bridge into the
river by train. Nearly 5000 and val
liable papers were found on the body,
the theory of foul play.
Longs relatives have spent no less than
10000 in searching for him, and Law.
renee Sanford, the boy who found the
body, probably will come in for the re-
ward of $4,000 which was offered by the
elder Long for information as to the
of his son, dead or alive.
Washington fisheries produced 3d..
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