Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-26
WASHINGTON ITEMS

| WASHINGTON ITEMS
]. R. DeMerchant, age 81 years. pio-
neer of Spokane, died recently.
Service by the Milwaukee from Spo.
kane will be inaugurated on Septem-
Der %.
The new wooden bridge, just con-
structed at Dayton across the Touchet,
is now open for traffic.
l. w. Rucker has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the poultry exhibit at
the Lewiston Charleston fair.
The annual session Of the Douglas
county teachers institute will be held
at Wenatchee October 6 to 10.
The state convention of the Wash
ington Good Roads association will be
held in North Yakima November 20
and 81.
w. H. Mckay, aged 80, pioneer of
Stevens county and for many years
identified with mining propositions,
died recently at Colville.
Spokane's Sunday storm damaged
many electric wires, both power and
telephone companies suffering from
the lightning during the storm.
Several brush fires in the vicinity of
Tacoma have caused considerable anxi-
ETY. and in one a woman, Mrs. A. Mel
son, was severely burned Sunday.
Victor, the 4-year-old son of Phillip
Hergert, Of near Colfax, was fatally
crushed under the wheels of loaded
wheat wagon at their ranch Saturday.
The state department Of education
is inclined to hold the large farms of
eastern Washington responsible for
the generally noted decrease Of schol-
ars in the wheat belt.
| Under the mothers pension law
county auditor may without court or
der discontinue an allowance made on
account of child when the child has
reached the age of Is.
/ The contract for the new O.-W. r.
& N.-Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound union depot in Spokane was
let for $650,0O0. and the station is to
be completed June, 1914.
The fall convention of the Columbia
and Snake River Waterways associa-
ton, held at Kennewick, September Is
and rs, was one of the most interest
ing open river" meetings ever held in
the Inland Empire.
Il Twenty-six farmers, representing
the formers union Of Walla Walla, Co
lumbia and Garfield counties, at their
recent convention at Dayton voted
unanimously against bonding Walla
Walla county for good roads, though
they favored good roads. They claimed
the right type of road has not been
determined.
Months of letter writing. during
which he bombarded the department
of the interior and the Senators Of the
northwest, have resulted in victory
for Register John Mcdonald of the
Walla Walla land office. who has been
fighting against the ruling Of the de
, partment that summer following" il
, mot cultivation"
President Donald Mckay OF Whit
i worth college, Tacoma, announces that
the college will be removed to Spo
. kane since final arrangements have
been made and negotiations closed fol
| a site and 100000 in cash guaranteed
> by Spokane citizens for initial building
expenses. The college will remain II
Tacoma for the present school year.
The contractors, Guthrie-M D0ugall
. will be unable to finish construction O
: the Wenatchee-Oroville branch Of thu
. Great Northern in time to turn owe
: the new railroad for operation by Jan
/ uary l, the date set by the state ant
federal government as one Of tn,
!, terms on which right of way was Civ
I en-. 1t will be finished about June
: 1914.
}, North Yakima.-The first tangibl
/ move Of the West Coast railroad, In
8 corporated two years ago by Rober
i e. Strahorn to construct an extension
d Of the Yakima valley line of the O.-W
In. & N. across the Cascade mountain
to Puget sound, came recently whe
lplats and locations of right Of wa
. through the Nachez pass were file
= In this county.
u The upper Columbia river countr.
which has for years vainly dreame
Of some substantial Improvement
= the Columbia river by which Its hui
2 dreds of carloads Of fruit. its tho'
y sands of tons Of hay, its great tonnag
q of ore and It's dairy produce migt