Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-11-14
WASHINGTON STATE

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fax stays wet by 70 majority.
The Columbia river water is prac-
tically free from contamination.
Owing to heavy rains recently the
Pend Oreille river has risen about Is
inches.
The Washington state fair insured
a deficit this year of 5000, according
to reports.
The Stevens county teachers insti-
tute will be held in Colville November
25, rs and q.
Peanuts of the double-jointed variety
were successfully grown near Ellens-
burg this year.
Scarcity of labor, such as has never
been known in Lincoln county before,
is seriously hampering construction
operations in many lines.
Damages in the sum of $4,000 were
granted Miss Nellie Storle of Tacoma
in a breach of promise action against
Fred G. Hogan of Spencerville, On
tario.
John Cunningham, aged q, who died
last month at Garfield, had peculiar
proviso in his will. He wished to be
buried between his first and second
wife.
F. P. Kingsbury, federal surveyor
general of this state, will forward his
resignation soon to Washington to
take effect at the change Of admins
tration next March.
One of the things Tor this pro-
gressive state to be proud of in it's
recent election is that it elected a
woman to the legislature. DR.. N. JOLT
don Croake of Tacoma.
Herbert ]. White, hotel man of
Spokane, was drowned recently while
hunting ducks in a small boat on Cold
Spring lake. The unfortunate man in
discharging his shotgun upset the boat.
The lower house of the next legis-
lature probably will be divided be-
tween republicans, democrats and pro-
gressives, with no one party having a
majority. Republicans will retain con-
troll of the state senate.
Allen P. Eldred, a bookkeeper in a
Seattle bank, hoodwinked a deputy
sheriff who had gone to his room to
arrest him, and committed suicide by
taking poison. A shortage of $40O in
Eldred's books had been discovered.
Laboring men of Spokane are plan
ming a new organization to be called
the "Sanitarians of Organized Labor"
They will have as their object the
keeping of high standard of santa
ton in the places where they are en-
ployed.
The Hazelwood dairy herd, which
won 10 firsts, nine seconds and nine
thirds, besides several other prizes at
the Waterloo Qowa) and Chicago
stock shows, will also show at the COM
ing Pacific International Dairy show at
Portland.
Impressive memorial services were
held Sunday at Seattle for the late
John l.. Wilson, proprietor of the Sc
ettIAO tiuu lOTII1GT
United States senator, while his body
was being laid in the earth at his birth.
place, in Charlottesville, Ind
Work for 1000 men through the win
ter will be afforded by contractors
who announce that construction will
be pushed more vigorously than ever
on the Wenatchee-Pateros branch of
the Great Northern. Most of the work
will be for common laborers.
Slides on the Grays Harbor branch
of the Northern Pacific near Sherlock,
between Olympia and Tacoma, had
blocked trains Sunday, and experts
who visited there say the line may not
be opened for 80 days, as the bluff
caves faster than it can be removed.
Ten thousand sheep from the noun
tain feeding grounds in the Cascades
have already crossed on the White
Bluffs ferry, and thousands more are
on the way from the hills to cross the
Columbia there on their way to the
winter feeding grounds in the warm
regions of the Columbia river basin.
Winnie Brown, who was found not
guilty by jury at Colfax of the charge
of numbering her father, Alfred Neeyes,
on the grounds that she and her hus-
band, who participated in the shooting,
which resulted In Neeves' death, were
suffering from emotional insanity at
the time of the shooting, was arraigned
in the superior court and committed
to the custody of her aunt.
Hogs as an aid in land clearing have
been tried out by v. w. Solder of Che
welah. Mr. Solder has about 40 acres
Of bottom land covered with dense
growth of swamp alder and under
brush and last spring after slashing
the heaviest of the brush, turned a
drove of hogs into the field. To get
at the succulent roots the hogs up
rooted all of the alders and shrubs,
leaving only the large cottonwood
stumps.
nessee and Michigan remain to be
decided.
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