Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-06-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Plans for the second horse show at
Pullman Saturday are complete.
Seattle public officials celebrated
their first municipal picnic Saturday.
One of the largest yields of grain
ever harvested in the Odessa section
is predicted.
M. G. Murphy, builder of the new
city hall at Spokane, has mysteriously
disappeared.
The funeral of Fred H. Mason, vet
eran hardware man of Spokane, was
held Sunday.
The school grounds were selected
for Wenatchee's first chautauqua to
be held July to IA.
Frank Fromm, the pistol expert, was
murdered by his wife at Spokane, Mon
day, owing to jealousy.
Bids are being advertised for the
new $4,000 lodge building of the Col
fax Knights of Pythias.
A determined fight against pear
blight throughout the length of Yaki-
ma county will be made.
Grant county will have night schools
throughout the country districts for
adult foreigners the next school year.
During the recent thunderstorm
Nicholas Thoma was struck and in.
stantly killed by lightning near Pome-
roy.
M. McMath, a deckhand on the
steamer Okanogan, committed suicide
Monday by jumping into the Columbia
river.
J. H. Perkins of Ritzville, recently
appointed state commissioner of agri-
culture, will set state fair date this
week.
Funeral services for E. W. Dooly,
the North Yakima capitalist who com
mitted suicide in Seattle, was held
Sunday.
Lewis, the 5-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. A. Venard, was drowned Mon
day in Mill creek at Walla Walla while
playing.
The mayor of Wilbur has ordered
all property owners to cut weeds in
alleys and streets adjacent to their
residences
Charges OF graft and inefficiency
preferred against certain city officials
OF Seattle were examined and defend
ants exonerated.
1t is reported from Olympia that
Seymour Manning of Colfax, who was
to have been state gain inspector. has
refused the appointment.
Nine hundred and sixty convicts at
state pen had the treat of their lives
sunday, when the saengerfest, under
the direction of Edgar Fischer, gave
a concert.
Within two weeks tri-weekly pas
senger and freight train service will
be installed from Wenatchee to Entiat.
Shortly thereafter it will be extended
to Chelan Falls.
The county commissioners have an.
propriated to the Mabton Poultry as
ISOLATION $3.50, which will be used
toward making the poultry show there
this fall success.
Marie Nevins, 35 years old, lodging
house keeper of Seattle, was shot and
probably fatally wounded Monday by
Edward McAlhster, 22 years DID, dur
ing a jealous quarrel.
Female descendants of civil war
veterans, who are unable to care for
themselves, will have a home in the
state of Washington, in which to spend
their declining years.
Arrested on charge of stealing
money from registered postoffice
package Frank M. Cove, night mailing
clerk in the Tacoma postoffice, was
pound over to the federal grand Jury
Tuesday.
The Empire voting machine Satur.
DAY passed the tests prescribed by the
special committee named by the last
legislature and will be certified so
that any city or county may purchase
it.
The Grays Harbor, Tacoma and Sc.
attic divisions of the Washington
naval militia have sailed on the United
States cruiser Galveston for a practice
cruise to Alaska. The militiamen will
return June 80.
John Ederer, who was recently re-.
tlred on a pension Of $65 month
after a service of 80 years in the
United States army, committed sui
eide at Port Townsend. Ederer had
lost interest in life.
DR.. 5. B. Nelson, retiring state
veterinarian, has prepared full re.
port covering the cases handlaa H.