Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-25
WASHINGTON ITEMS

ident of Steptoe, died recently.
Ellis McClaskey committed suicide
by hanging himself at Albion Monday.
William F. Taylor, aged "a, was
drowned Monday while bathing in the
Snake river near Charleston.
Professor Bruce McCully for two
years head of the department of Eng
lish at the state college, has resigned.
While bathing in the Palouse river
near the De Long bridge, about IL
miles south of st. John, c. T. Lindley
was accidentally drowned.
Ranchers in many instances over
the state have tried to farm too much
land and as a result the weeds are
getting the best of the grain.
Mayor c. G. Baker of Prosser has
instituted suit against Councilman R.
NJ. Shannon to recover 100000 dam
ages because of alleged SANDER.
The poultry raisers of the Northwest
will meet September II and the dairy
men will meet Thursday, September
IS, at Spokane, during the Interstate
fair.
Sharp criticism of the conduct of the
fish commissioners office under John
l.. Riseland, who retired a few months
ago, is made in a report of the bureau
of inspection.
Mrs. C. M. O'Dell, widow of the late
James V. O'Dell, was instantly killed
at her fruit ranch, three miles above
Wawawai, near Pullman, Monday, by
being struck by a passenger train.
Funeral services for the late M. W.
Belshaw, former Spokane city council
man and we'll known farmer and bust
ness man of Pennington, whose death
occurred Friday, was held Sunday at
Spokane.
The county commissioners of Walla
| Walla have voted for a new courthouse
to cost not more than 100000, to be
I Of Glass A construction, absolutely
f fi~reproof and ample for the county's
needs for years to come.
The program for the 18th annual
convention of the Washington Bank
ers' association, which meets in Ia
# coma August Z, 8 and 9, has been com
s pleted and includes addresses by prom
n inent bankers of all parts of the state
The funeral of David Clark, WHIT
q shot at and attempted to kill j.. G
L Swenberg because of the refusal OF thu
latter to pay an alleged bill of $164.2O
and who afterward committed suicide
by taking strychnine, took place a
Republic Saturday.
o. Francis ]. Thayer, aged At, a para
s. chute jumper known all over b west
was drowned Saturday while makini
u a parachute descent from an aeroplan
d as part of the Potlatch air sports a
Seattle. He went up in an aeroplan
with Johnny Bryant.
= Forty-seven trespassers Of railroa
Nv rights of ways in this state have bee
killed since January l, according t
figures compiled by the public servlc
commission. This does not include Ii
" talities at railroad crossings or person
d killed as the result of wrecks.
Opponents of Mayor Cotterill Of s.
At attic have recovered sufficiently trol
nd the excitement of the Potlatch and tn
riotous conduct of the soldiers an
sailors in sacking the offices of til
-, socialists and the Industrial WORKER
of the World to try to organize a NOV
i ment for the recall of the mayor.
We,
al. The fourteenth annual conventio
of the Washington Retail Merchant
70 association will be held in the city
rk Seattle, Washington, Tuesday, We
cd nesday and Thursday, September
II and 10, 1918, and will be called
order at 2 o'clock p. n. on Tuesda
With the exception of the armor,
alt cruiser California, all the warshi
are which were in the harbor at Seat
I've during the Potlatch celebration,
a turned to the Bremerton navy va
I'd; and normal Sunday conditions pl
all vailed on the streets, with the n
ception that there were no corn
,1,s street speakers.
to At a recent conference betwe
ave Clark Savidge, land commission
not. Washington, and w. Vaughn Tam
attorney general, with Secretary of
cal Interior Lane and Secretary of Ag
oil culture Houston an agreement W
.yo practically reached to allow the sta
of Washington to select $4,000 acl
of public lands in lieu of school Ian
~ lost to the state by reason of sett
.ne ment on u~nsurveyed sections 16 a
'hei Sc. 1t was previously estimated tt
the state had only lost $4,000 acres
ASH settlers, but in checking up in
lear general land office here a much lart
pose acreage was discovered.
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