Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
WASHINGTON STATE

Union Flat country to Hooper on the /
S. P. & S.
Eight of the seventeen successful
applicants for admission to the bar at
the recent examination were from east
ern Washington.
Henry lila, farmer living about
eight miles southwest of Odessa, sus-
tanned serious injury when he was
crushed by fall
Mrs. Rose McCroskey of Palouse,
who has been named postmistress of
the Washington state senate, is the
first woman to hold such position.
State conventions of the state fedora
ton of labor, the county assessors as
sociation and state society of correc-
ton and charities convened in Olympia
Monday.
The Reardan school is serving warm
lunches this winter in the domestic
science department, especially for the
benefit of the people who drive in
from the country.
The Colville chamber of commerce
served banquet to the delegates to
the annual meeting of the Stevens
County Federation of Commercial
Clubs, which was held Tuesday.
At Pullman, DR.. ]. J. L. Heldring,
veterinarian and for four years pro
fessor of materia medica in Washing
ton State college, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the mouth.
Following a conference of democrat
| ic senators and representatives with
Governor Ernest Lister, plans have
been made to fight the proposed jun
keting trip to all state institutions.
The body, fragments of which were
scattered along the railroad tracks at
| Spokane, Saturday, has been identified
as that of Robert Jones, about 80 years
old, formerly farmer from Garfield.
Lost in heavy storm as he was
trying to make his way through five
feet of snow to his cabin six miles
from Blueslide, H. H. Pedrow, 30
years old, a rancher, persisted recently.
| Cattle rustling is being carried on
in the Walla Walla valley, according
to Sherman Pettijohn of Prescott, who
has filed complaint charging John Doe
McGrew with the theft of 81 head of
stock.
| 1t is reported that l.. II. Pruitt, a
prominent business man of Ephrata,
has purchased the Sloan sanatorium
at Soap lake, one of the largest and
most popular health resorts in this
state.
There is now SO inches of snow on
the level throughout Whitman county.
This is the heaviest amount ever re-
corded in the Palouse country, the
highest previous record being %
inches.
Brakeman Edwin Snyder of Tacoma
and Fireman Studlack were frightfully
scalded Saturday morning when a west
bound Northern Pacific freight train
went into a ditch two and a half miles
west of Castle Rock.
The twenty-second annual report of
the State Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton at Pullman, Washington, is now
ready for free distribution. This re-
port covers the work of the station for
the year ending June 80, 1912.
To make the habitual drunkard re
sponsible for efforts to get drinks, in.
stead of placing all burden of blame
on the shoulders of the saloonkeeper
is the purpose of bill introduced al
this session of the state legislature
The board of county commissioners
of Stevens county have ordered 1OC
elk from the Yellowstone Nationa
park to be delivered on board cars al
that place at SIS per head. These ami
mails will be distributed in the various
mountain districts.
!, Frank S. Blattner, one of the most
prominent attorneys Of Tacoma and
for nearly % years resident, was
drowned in Commencement bay Satur
day when his 40-foot cruising launch
La Kumanog, caught fire while on its
way from Tacoma to Quartermastel
harbor.
Whether peas for canning can be
successfully grown in the Yakima In
dian reservation, and, when canned
will retain their green color and prop
er food constituents, are questions tha
: are to be solved this year at the re
quest of large cannery company o.
eastern states.
Prison Warden Charles S. Reid al
Walla Walla has filed his resignation
with the board of control to take effec
on or before April Is. Warden Reit