Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-26
WASHINGTON ITEMS


airy IA to 81 at Toppenish.
Saturday night electricity was turned
on for the new cluster light system at
Wenatchee.
The appointment of Donald B. Olson
as superintendent of Monroe reform
atory is announced.
School teachers of Yakima county
will have a publication called the
School Messenger.
The Allen Evaporating Co. Of Fiber
ton last week shipped two cars of
prunes to London, England.
The death of w. E. Ralston, former
professor in the department of veter-
mary medicine at the state college, is
reported.
Washington State college at Pull
man received Endorsement at the hands
of the Washington State Horticultural
association.
The department of justice has de-
cided upon Francis A. Garrecht of
Walla Walla for United States district
attorney in Spokane.
G. Krau of Everett has purchased
the hotel of j. N Nygren at Soap
Lake, the consideration being $4,000.
The hotel was built last spring.
S. R. Jackson, a business man of
Centralia, WASH, shot and killed Ar
thur Ansler, 20, bartender, in hotel
room in Tacoma Sunday morning.
United States Attorney Oscar Cain,
at Spokane, has received letter from
the attorney general of the United
States acknowledging Gains resigna-
ton.
N. B. Atkinson of Waitsburg was
reelected president of the County
Farmers union. Delegates attended
from Columbia, Garfield and Walla
Walla counties.
Former Police Chief Wappenstein Of
Seattle was released from the peniten-
tiary Saturday after 10 months i'm
prisonment on conditional pardon
from Governor Lister.
Becoming excited during wrestling
match at Pomeroy, Thomas S,cggin,
aged 70, wealthy pioneer farmer,
suffered an attack of heart failure and
died few minutes after.
At Seattle Saturday shots were fired
in the Transfers strike trouble, G.. C.
Simms, nonunion driver, firing into
crowd of strikers without injuring
any one. Simms was arrested by a
policeman.
While acting as Santa Claus at a
school Christmas tree entertainment,
A. G. Botsford, young rancher, 10
miles west of Ethiopia, came into con-
tact with lighted candles and was Sc
verely burned.
Postmaster General Albert Burelson
still has rs postoffices in Washington
state to turn over to democrats. Out
OF the 125 presidential places, hardly
so have been filled and the rest are
waiting for the regular terms to ex-
pire.
The Stevens County Live Stock asso-
citation met recently with an attend
ance of so members, representing
nearly all parts of the county. G. A.
Gaines of Marble is president, James
Crawford, Colville, secretary, and C.
M. Baker, Narcisse, treasurer.
Reardan, not Davenport, as had been
expected, will entertain the 100 dele.
gates at the annual convention of the
Lincoln County Farmers union, dates
for which have been set by President
r. c. T. Weisman and the executive
committee for January IL, 10 and IA.
Investigation of the byproducts ques-
ton in the northwest is to be made by
members of the byproducts committee
appointed at the apple show which met
at Walla Walla during the State Hor-
tlculcural association convention, and
the results OF these Investigations are
10 De made known at North Yakima
at another meeting March l.
AT recent conference with Secre-
tary Lane, Senator Jones and Repre-
sentative La Toilette urged that the
nomesteaders who took up some 90
acre tracts under the Sunnyside canal.
near Granger, be given relief. The
only way water could be obtained for
these lands was by pumping it from
the Sunnyside canal. and the entrymen
We're required to pay more than s5
an acre construction charges and to
keep up the payments annually.
Chapter 129 of the session laws Of
1905 provides that savings banks. loan
societies and all other institutions in
winch deposits of money are made
snail within Is days after December
OF each odd numbered year. begin
ming with 1906. transmit to the score.
tary OF state list of the accounts of
all depositors which have not been
touched, either as to deposits or with
drawals, for 10 years. Such accounts
are then to be escheted to the state.
Regulating decision by former
secretary OF the Interior Hitchcock.
whereby he allowed Indians ON the
Yakima reservation lat feet of water
from the Yakima river for irrigation