Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS

1 i6utS.
! Spokane is to have WOODEN mill.
according to reports.
! William Roy has assumed his office
as highway commissioner.
Mrs. Harry Ripley, a Colfax pioneer
was painfully scalded recently.
Preliminary survey of the Palouse
irrigation project will begin January /
Henry Davis, aged S3. resident of
Whitman county for "a years, died re-
Gently.
John Mordhorst and Steve DeBallas
were accidentally killed recently while
hauling wood near Danville.
John P. Martin has purchased from
d. w. Miller section of wheat land
near Walla Walla for $4,000
The golden wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs D. T. Prescott was cele-
brated recently at Charleston.
Mrs. Joel Dixon, aged SIS years, died
from old age near Pennington Satur
day. She was born in Germany.
The interior department has issued
an order for extension of time to set
tiers under Quincy project to January
1, 1915.
Chelan county commissioners have
made $4,000 appropriation for free
ferry on Lake Chelan between First
Creek and Manson.
The handsome residence of R. D.
Sayres of Dayton has been leased by
the Roman Catholics for an indefinite
period as sisters hospital.
Farmers who stored their grain on
their ranches are taking advantage of
the fine weather and the good roads
and are hauling to the warehouse.
At Everett recently Leo Bolger and
John Ryan, each 10 years, were found
dead in an anteroom of the state ar
mory, having been overcome by gas.
Mrs. Grace Hogevall was shot fatal
ly by j. Orville Blakeslee, rejected
sutton, at Seattle recently. Blakeslee,
a gardner, aged 40, then committed
suicide.
A retailer is bound to factory price,
according to recent decision of state
supreme court, and man who cuts
selling figure manufacturer sets is
liable for damages.
Highway Commissioner William r.
Roy and Chief Engineer James Allen
will spend most Of this week on their
first official tour of inspection in
eastern Washington
Governor Lister disapproyes of the
action of the board of regents Of the
University of Washington when they
removed DR.. Thomas F. Kanes as
president of the state university.
The Yakima Pioneers association
has decided that Indian blood should
be no bar to membership provided the
applicant was citizen on November
8, 1899, when Washington was admit.
ted as a state.
M. l.. Waite, near Sunnyside, had
out IL acres of tomatoes this season
which produced an average of 10 tons
to theacre. He hauled eight tons per
day to the cannery, receiving $12 per
ton.
Mrs. E. H. Morrison of Fairfield,
one of the most widely known pioneer
women of the northwest died recent
ly at Rochester, Mimi, where she was
taken December l for surgical treat.
ment
Donald B. Olson of Seattle has been
appointed superintendent of the state
reformatory to succeed Cleon B. Rice.
January l. Mr.. Olson is fuel dealer,
prominent in Masonic circles and is a
democrat
A campaign for better apples and
more of them is being vigorously
waged by the fruitgrowers near Kies.
ling. Dynamite is being used. Hun.
dreds of apples trees from 6 to rs
years of age are doomed in the diff.
ferent orchards for varieties best
adapted to locality.
The anticipated refusal of the five
great railroad lines to pay their 1913
taxes will reduce the total tax collec-
tons throughout the state between $4,-
100000 and $4,250,0 and may result
In the stamping of interest-bearing
warrants to practically this amount
by the state and the counties and
school districts traversed by the rail-
road lines.
The state supreme court has af-
firmed the decision of the Thurston
county superior court, which declared
unconstitutional the law passed in
1907 imposing five per cent gross
revenue tax on the state business done
by express companies operating in
Washington. The express companies
have paid 100000 year to the state
under this law.
SELL 10000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN