Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-11-21
WASHINGTON STATE

Okanogan voted to license saloons in
Workmen at North Yakima are erect
ing four-stall roundhouse for the
O.-W r. & N.
Mrs. Carry H. Sane, pioneer of
LOOMS, Wash, mother of Mrs. H. p.
Decent, died recently
| At Odessa, Christian d. Weber lost a
number of horses on account of pioson-
Gus weeds mixed in with hay
Five naval prisoners confined in the
disciplinary barracks at the Puget
Sound navy yard escaped recently.
At Charleston Ernest 1iffney COM
mitted suicide recently by taking
poison. No reason for the act is
known.
Mrs. H. w. Bourquin of Prosser has
started hospital there. DR. French.
county physician, will place the county
patients there.
1t is claimed there is less grain in
the hands of the producers than ever
known at this time of year in the Pa
louise country
Paul London and his father of
LOOMS, Wash, who took 1900 head of
sheep to the Chicago market, have re-
turned and say that mutton is at the
top price.
Harold Bruce, 3-year-old son of Sam
RrI1nn IF
against tub of boiling water which
his mother was preparing for washing
and fell in, back first, receiving severe
burns.
Jacob Betz, aged SO, Washington
pioneer, died recently at Tacoma, of
organic heart trouble of long standing.
He was formerly mayor of Walla Wal
la, where burial took place the first of
the week.
For the first time practical operation
or the principles of the mothers per-
sion law of Illinois, the county commits
sioners of Spokane through coopera-
ton with the juvenile court, started the
plan this week.
At Independence A. A Trusket was
acquitted OF the charge of numbering
j. d. S. Nicely, a Lima (Ohio) oil pro-
moter, and was held by the jury to
have been insane at the time he shot
and killed Nicely.
State President l.. C. Crow and
county President A. ID. Kelly will tour
whitman county. They will be at
Pennington November %, Tekoa No
vember %, later at st. John and the
lower part of the county.
Owing to the large vote in Newport
precinct at the recent election, $50
votes being cast out of registration of
793, the commissioners have created
three new precincts out Of the terri
tory originally in one.
Because of the prospect of a short
age of storage facilities for apples still
to go forward from the Yakima valley
a committee from the Yakima Valley
Fruitgrowers' association have gone to
cities of the middle west for a storage
market.
Right of way for the Oregon-Wa sh-
ington Railroad & Navigation COM
pany line through the valley of the
White Bluffs country is being pur-
chased, following closely upon the
heels of the engineers who have com.
pleted their final resurvey of the route
at White Bluffs.
Palouse business men are deter |
mined that some industry shall be es-
tablished there which will make possi- |
BILE better local market for the pro-
ducts of the farm and increase the |
towns payroll. A canning plant and a |
cold storage and packing plant are con-
sidered most feasible.
Grain sacks are to be abandoned in |
the northwest and wheat will be |
handled in bulk This important de-
cision was made by delegates repre-
senting every agricultural county of |
Oregon and Idaho, who
met in Walla Walla recently at the tri-
state convention of the Farmers Union.
The low price of hay on the reser-
walton has converted the Wapato Sec
ton into one of the foremost winter
feeding grounds in the country for cat
tie and sheep men. A conservative
estimate places the number of cattle
and sheep feeding there at 100000.
Several thousand cattle came from
Texas.
The body of Charles Newell, son of
Edward Newell, coroner-elect of Lewis
county, was found Sunday shot
through the head. The body lay in
Itch in the north end of the city of |