Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS

4 GA ONIOOSA l. " Z.
Apricots are ripening in the We
natchee valley and shipping is in full
swing.
John Adams was recently murdered
and robbed about six miles west of
Walla Walla.
Safe breakers blew the safe in a
saloon at W%aterville July 8 and es-
capped with $500.
Weeds are a fruitful source of
trouble to property owners and county
officials these days.
The address by Governor Lister was
the chief feature of the celebration of
the Fourth at Hoquiam.
Every indication points to the big
gest crop of wheat ever known in
eastern Whitman county.
Jacob Mariner, living about 10 miles
northwest of Warden, was killed re-
Gently by a cave-in in a cistern.
DR.. C. S. Penfield, aged Sc years, a
resident of Spokane for the last rs
years, died Monday, due to apoplexy.
The fifth annual convention Of the
Pacific Logging congress will be held
in Spokane September "a, 25, 26 and
81
Charles K. Wood, a wealthy bachelor
"a years of age, who recently died at
Oakesdale, left a fortune estimated
at S10O, 900.
Announcement is made of the open
ing of 10000 acres of and in Grant
county, embraced in the Quincy Irri-
cation project.
r. D. Jarboe, who has had charge of
the Edwards & Bradford lumber yard
at Davenport, has been appointed
state grain inspector
Rocks weighing tons were washed
down hillsides in a recent cloudburst
that washed out a roadway for two
miles neal Conconully.
John Caller, known by all of the old
timers as Dutch John" still lives on
the Colville reservation at an age ap-
proximting 100 years.
The recently burned round house
and shops on the S. p. & S. at Lamont
are to be replaced at a cost of $3.50 0
Work is to start at once
The fourteenth biennial convention
of the Theatrical Mechanics sasocia-
ton of the United States and Canada
were in session all this week at Spo-
kane.
S. ]. Tant died recently at Long
Beach, Cal. He made the first plat of
the town of Garfield, Wash. His son,
Mark, was the first white child born
in that town.
Mrs. Sophia Lien, aged 10 years, fell
upon a butcher knife in her kitchen
at Seattle Sunday, severed the jugular
vein and the carotid artery and died
soon afterward.
G. p. Coey of Rockford has sold for
a consideration og $41,000 a farm of
$50 acres, five miles southeast of Rock
ford, in Spokane county. The buyer
is A. J.. Brincken.
Fire recently destroyed every bust.
ness building except one IN Easton, a
railroad town at the east portal of the
Northern Pacific tunnel through the
| Cascade mountains.
The mutilated remains of Ode Car
ter of Monticello, KY, a private in
Company l, Fourteenth infantry, Fort
George Wright, were found Sunday
M ornipp nn1ap tho no;1pnoI +ro,+1o -
Spokane.
5 Clifton Baker of Index, Wash, aged
Fl years, fell $50 feet from a cliff over
l looking Lake Isabel, in the Cascade
mountains, 80 miles from Everett, last
l Saturday, and was instantly killed by
striking the rocks below.
Mrs. Frank Hartman, wife of a farm
er near Olympia, drowned hel
9-months-old baby in a creek running
through the farm and made an unsuc
~cessful attempt to drown herself Sun
Z day. Insanity is given as the cause.
The price of grain bags will not
bother Ben Grote, an extensive Eureka
Flat farmer, as he will harvest and
ship in bulk. He expects a big yield
Frank Richmond, a Prescott farmer
expects the largest yield in 20 years
Earl Morgan, 15-year-old son of C
o. Morgan, Seattle, was so badly in
jured by the explosion OF a toy cannon
e which he was holding between his
S knees while loading that it was nee
d essary to amputate his right leg above
the knee.
There were 676,941 animals slaugh
tered in the federally-inspected estab
lishments of the state of Washington
under government inspection in 1912
These consisted of 1854 cattle, 1876
y calves, S12,7S6 sheep, 1917 goats ant
a 0eo cor bor,