Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-10-03
WASHINGTON ITEMS

E. X. Prendergast will hold term
of superior court for Ferry county be-
ginning October II.
The gates of the seventeenth Wash
ington state fair opened Monday for
the weeks show at North Yakima.
Seattle has agreed to take over that
portion of the Seattle, Renton and
Southern railway in the city limits for
$1,200.000.
Plans are being made to place .
stone tablet representing the state Of
Washington in the Washington monu-
ment at the national capital.
With but 10 cents left in her purse.
discouraged over property litigation.
e. Elizabeth Houe, so years old, COM
mitted suicide at Spokane Saturday.
Refusing rs cents per pound for
their hops. Yakima valley growers are
preparing to store q large share of
their crop to wait for higher prices.
Seattle's chief Of police has revoked
all permits to drive automobiles is-
sued to persons under IS years of age.
They are mixed up in too many acct
dents.
The largest life insurance policy ever
written in the northwest, 100000, was
issued to c. D. Gibbs at Spokane re-
Gently. He will pay an annual premi-
UNI Of $4,000.
Mr.. Mccall. hale and hearty and one
Of the Oldest civil war veterans resid.
ing in Whitman county, lives at WI
mona. He is 80 years Of age and took
part in Is battles.
Washington will have building at
the Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco and it will stand on the site
originally selected for this state, but
increased in dimensions.
F. Martin Lautz. a soap chemist. 4e
years old. said to be member Of q
wealthy family Of soap manufacturers
Of Buffalo, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at Seattle, Saturday.
The Spokane & British Columbia
railway surveyors down the San Poll
valley have made camp about q quar-
ter Of mile north of Keller. The
crew consists Of about 25 men.
State Land Commissioner Clark v.
Savidge announces that q state land
sale will be held on January 6. 1914.
Applications for this sale must reach
the state land office not later than 18th
Of this month.
In an effort to save an unidentified
man Engineer Zuegler Of Northern
Pacific freight train derailed his train
near Ellensburg and II cars went into
the ditch. The attempt failed to save
the mans life.
e. B. Marks OF the Ohtanum farm
one of the pioneer breeders Of Holstein
cattle in the Yakima valley. has cold
Is of the most valuable animals in his
herd to Calvin Phillips Of the Green
bank farm, near Tacoma, for $4,000.
Dayton recently lost one Of its most
eminent citizens in the death Of Moses
NORTH. He was born In Landau, Al
SAGE, France. April 20, 1896, being al
his death little over 81 years Of age
In 1916 he came to America, landing
at New Orleans.
The bill asking for an extension Of
time for desert land entrymen in Grant
county who were unable to obtain
water this wear from the De Larue irri
cation project, was favorably reported
by the public lands committee Of the
hause Of congress.
Sunday morning the first regularly
scheduled passenger train Of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company left the Milwaukee freight
station at Bernard street and Trent
avenue. thus officially opening the lint
for service between this city and thu
east.
James r. Creigler, pioneer Northern
Pacific freight conductor on the ives
side. better known as Sunny Jim" ant
"Whistling JIM" nicknames earnet
because Of his genial disposition ant
the fact that he invariably was whis
thing, fell from the train Sunday an,
was killed near Seattle.
The crowded condition Of the stat
supreme court docket and the larg
numbr Of cases demanding immediate
attention has caused Clerk G. s. Rine
hart to write letter to all litigant
!, to file their cases at once. Any case
filed after October 20 must 60 over ur
til the January term Of court.
. The strenuous campaign which ha
, been waged during the present seaso