Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-08-29
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The 18th annual Whitman County
fair will be held at Colfax, October
Gil, 1918.
The program for the Richland Val
ley festival. September 10-11. has been
announced.
Pullman councilmen have been au-
thorized to let the contract for drilling
new artesian well.
The good roads movement 10 receiv.
ing more attention in the Palouse and
Walla Walla country than ever before.
William H. Ramsdell died at Asotin
after an illness of four months. He
was born April 8, 1896. at South Bay,
Lubbock, Maine.
Forest rangers and prospectors re-
port deer and mountain sheep to be
plentiful in the mountains both east
and west Of Oroville.
Mrs. James A. Karr, aged "A, Of
North Yakima, the oldest white woman
born in what is now the state OF Wash
ington, will celebrate her golden we'd
ding this fall.
The drainage work done during the
last nine months north Of Grandview,
affecting about 1000 acres of land. has
been accepted by the county commits
sioners. The cost has totaled close to
100000.
Eugenia Lowe, the 16-year-old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Lowe,
known as one Of the most beautiful
of the younger society girls of Tacoma,
was drowned Sunday when a canoe
overturned.
The Sunnyside library is in receipt
Of donation Of lao choice volumes,
the gift Of Mrs. John L. Wilson OF Sc
attic. Before his death the former
senator had declared his intention to
make such gift.
In q decision rendered recently the
supreme court upholds the law passed
by the last legislature which prohibits
the letting Of road contracts that will
exceed 80 per cent Of the taxes of the
district for the year.
The Yakima Valley Hop Growers
association has appealed to the state
public service commission for an order
for special rates from Spokane and the
Coast for the 1000 hop pickers needed
there In the next two weeks.
Thomas Denderant, a former land
lord at Albion, committed suicide near
Luel Land. 8. c., by hanging himself
in q wagon shed. Mr.. Denderant was
the father Of the boy that was scalded
to death at Albion in a barber, shop
three years ago
Five hundred dollars week for one
fisherman Is the average earned by
salmon fishers who began to return
from the salmon banks to Tacoma
Sunday with shipload after shipload Of
their lucrative catches, and their faces
wrapped In smiles over what they de-
clared was the most successful season
In history.
In the arrest during the last two
weeks Of ]. e. Griffin, John Griffin,
Ray Byrne and Tom Mcguire and the
holding Of Don Darnell on suspicion.
United States secret service operatives
believe they have completed their In.
vestigation Of the circulation in Puget
sound cities of silver certificates,
which had been raised from 81 to $50.
Governor Lister is at Denver attend
ing the national conference Of COVER
nors. He goes from Denver to Idaho
to attend, with Governor Haines of
Idaho. exercises opening the bridge
built jointly by Idaho and Washing
ton over the Snake river. Returning
to Washington, he said, he would go
to Tacoma for the opening of new
100000 high school building.
Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazard. COM
monty known as the starvation doc
tor" whose sentence Of from two to
20 years in the state penitentiary for
causing the death by starvation of
Miss Claire Williamson. an English
heiress, was upheld recently by the
supreme court, was released from the
King county jail on $4,000 bond Sat-
urday pending the filing OF petition
for rehearing.
Representatives Of ten Indian tribes,
some from as far as the Aleutian
islands and distant Alaskan parts,
signed declaration of allegiance to
the government Of the United States
and pledged loyalty to the flag In a
solemn and impressive ceremony be-
fore DIR. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Major
James Mclaughlin, special inspector
of Indian affairs, and party at the
Cushman Indian school near Tacoma,
Saturday.
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