Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-11-28
WASHINGTON STATE

Cecil \. Alderman has sold his form
OF 100 acres, two miles north of E,s-
pamela. for $500
The town of Reardau faces fuel
famine as the rainy weather made
hauling of wood impossible
The next quarterly meeting of the
Inland Empire Federation of CONNER
cial clubs will be held in Colfax next
spring.
contractor Lanning was awarded the
contract to construct four and a half
miles of permanent highway between
Walla Walla and Milton, the price be-
ing $4,000.
Two slight earthquake shocks were
felt Sunday night by residents in the
southeastern part of Seattle, including
the Mount Baker park. Columbia and
Rainier beach districts.
Miss Ethel A. Burnett, daughter of
the late Rev. G. G. Burnett, formerly
rector of All Saints church OF Spokane.
died recently at the Good Samaritan
hospital in Portland, Ore
With an estimated attendance of be-
tween 600 and 1000 persons, the first
annual convention of the Northwest
Association for Deaf Mutes will be
held in Spokane July to 4, 1913.
Ben Jacobs, who shot and wounded
Ed Lowrey at Chelan landing recently,
says he will plead guilty, and hopes to
begin his term as soon as possible.
Il wanted to kill Lowrey," he con-
fessed to the sheriff.
Half million dollars will be spent
during the witner by the Pacific Pow
er Light company in improving the
and pipe which brings North Yakima
water supply from the upper reaches
of the Naches river.
Theodore Roosevelts plurality over
Woodrow Wilson in this state was
24,303. according to official figures.
The vote for governor was: Lister,
democrat, 97,2S9; Hay, republican, &c.
613; Hodge, progressive, 77,S7S. Lis
ter's plurality, 626
Henry Gable, sentenced in December,
1907, to five to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary, was pardoned by Governor
Hay recently that the man might go
back to a little Minnesota town to
claim a third interest in an estate of
100000 left by his father.
The Western Fruit Products com
pany, incorporated for 100000, of which
Rufus Wilson of Seattle is organizer,
will erect plants next year at North
Yakima and Wenatchee and will later
extend it's operations to Medford, Hood
his announcement.
Seattle's so-called strap-hanger ordi-
nance, which provides that each stand
ing passenger in every street-car shall
be allowed at least four square feet,
was declared void by the court The
judge held that relief from overcrowd-
ing was in the hands of the state pub
lie service commission.
That 700 carloads of cattle have
been shipped to Toppenish this fall,
the stock to be fattened on Yakima
reservation alfalfa, is the statement of
the railroads. These cattle have been
brought from all parts of the west,
many of them being shipped from
Texas and Mexico They will be fed
there during the winter and then sent
to Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and Port
land to packing houses
The large potato crop of this year
and the small demand for them has
put the farmers and business men of
the central part of the state to think
ing of the advisability of establishing
a starch factory at some point in the
county and of using potatoes to make
starch. This plan will be considered
at a meeting of the Lincoln County
Booster club, which will meet in Cres-
ton about the first of the year.
This week it is expected that the
fruit dryer which Messrs. F. d. Mineah,
A. b. Capps and Ralph Dunford have
installed In Prosser will be open for
business. The plant will be operated
by the tunnel and hot air process and
will have capacity of 200 bushels
of green fruit day. The slicer and
peeler are electrically operated and
1000 apples an hour is the capacity of
the peeler The plant will take care
of the surplus fruit of the Prosser dis
trict.