Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-02-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS



The county convention of the farm
ers' union was held at North Yakima
last Wednesday.
Henry Mickels, editor of the Cheney
. Free Press, died Saturday after but a
few hours illness.
Main street of Waitsburg is soon to
, be lighted with cluster lights instead
OF the present arc lights.
North Yakima will hold a special
election on the s26O,OoO bond issue for
a sewer system for March IS.
G. A. Gaines, prominent stockman
of Northport, has organized a Stevens
County Live Stock association.
Walla Walla Farmers union men,
bers have signed an application for
100000 grain bags at Tacoma.
1t is thought the legislature will pass
most of the bills proposed for the bet
ter government of cities of the first
class.
Farmers are incensed at the tactics
OF the so-called grain bag trust in rails
ing the price of bags so early in the
season.
Four county division fights are
threatened in both houses, with gen.
eral prospects that none of them will
get through
White mold in hay fed to sheep was
responsible for a large number of
deaths in the flock being wintered
near Chewelah.
George Defoe, whose trial for the
murder of John Hagerman was set for
Wednesday, pleaded guilty to man.
slaughter at North Yakima.
Announcing that she had no friends
left and that life was no longer worth
living, Miss Mary Dawson, aged 80
years, committed suicide at Spokane
Sunday.
resolution introduced in the house
Monday by Representative H. w. |
Holmes of Snohomish asks investiga- |
ton of affairs at Washington State
college.
The State Sheriffs' association
met at Olympia this week. The sher-
ifs asked for the passage of law
permitting them to install Identified
ton systems.
Four female elk, two male elk. two
bull buffalo, two silvertip grizzly bears,
one brown bear and seven beavers
have been donated by the government
to Spokane's ZOO.
An immense ice gorge has formed
in the Columbia river at Boone's land
ing, threatening damage to the i'm
proved islands and lowlands along the
east side of the river.
Governor Lister has received word
from graduate nurses of hospitals pro-
testing against the passage of an eight
hour law for women such as to apply
to the nursing profession
Indians of the Yakima and Columbia
valleys are to hold big celebration
from March l to March at the ranch
of Chief George Stwire Waters, near
Toppenish, in honor of the Inaugural
ton of President-elect Wilson. II
Great Northern representatives an
nounce that it is the intention of the /,
company to have it's line north from +,
Wenatchee in operation by July 1, if ,
possible and at least in time to handle
the 1918 crop from that territory.
According to a recent official esti- .
mate, million and half grain bags .
will be needed for this years wheat
crop by the members of the farmers
union at Walla Walla. The farmers
are preparing to pool their orders in i.
one big deal.
AS the result of decision handed
Town by the government board of food
Inspection at Washington, White
Bluffs, Hanford and Ringold will here
liter be compelled to discontinue the
Use of the label of the Yakima Valley
Fruit Growers association.
The inventory of the Cheney state A
formal school property just filed in
he report of the state bureau of in
pection fixes the total at $189,351 IS,
Il which $4,000 is comprised in six O
ity blocks, the remaining being school
and personal property.
The theft of large quantities of brass
nd copper from several machinery .
ouses in Seattle has been solved by q
hiding several thousand pounds of =
Upper wire, copper and brass fittings,
ables and pieces of brass machinery
idden in the waters of Wolf creek.
Senators Arthur Mcclure and Harve o
|. Phipps, in senate bill No. 1877, pro- a
iding for $40,000,000 state bond io
;Sue for the racla m a ton of rid lanac VI