Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-05
WASHINGTON ITEMS

II WASHINGTON ITEMS
The great border day celebration at
Toppenish is on this week.
Charles M. Smith, travelling sales
man Of Spokane, has been appointed
deputy state hotel inspector.
For the first time this season not
an egg could be purchased at any
store In Harrington, Friday.
A franchise for the right to operate
a gasoline street car line between Soap
Lake and Ephrata has been granted.
Charles F. Newcomb, convicted Of
the murder OF Martin Kvaulshaug at
Tacoma in 1909, got a life sentence.
The Auditorium theater, Spokane's
historic playhouse, seriously damaged
by fire August 10, will be rebuilt i'm
mediately.
George Tiffany, the 7-year-old son Of
Mrs. Charles Chambers, fell in neigh
boris well near Othello and was in
stantly killed.
The state of Washington will spend
approximately 100000 for its building
at the Panama-Pacific exposition in
San Francisco.
There Is little leisure for the pris-
oners at Lincoln county. The prison
ers are employed in repairing bridges
and cutting the Russian thistles.
Officials OF the Grant County Fair
association are hard at work preparing
for the fair which is to be held in
Ephrata September Is, rs and 81.
Fire OF unknown origin Sunday
night burned the planning mill and dry
kiln Of the Dean Lumber and Fuel
company. Spokane, causing a loss Of
5000.
Incendiaries are blamed for the fire
which destroyed the box factory on
the Thompson fruit ranch near Wa
pata. The flames destroyed $4,000
boxes.
| Arthur Friese, who owns farm four
miles west of Palouse, was one Of the
first In the neighborhood to thresh
oats and reports yield of 70 bushels
to the acre.
| The Frontier Days celebration in
Walla Walla September 25, rs and III
will be an elaborate portrayal, in q
realistic manner, Of the early life OF
the great west.
A harvest hand by the name of Rob.
ert Wilson met with fatal accident
while driving q bundle wagon for
Queen & Barker's threshing machine
near Thornton.
The merchants of the town of Hun
tiers have subscribed $3.50 for the agri
cultural fair September 25, rs and e.
A better babies contest will be held
in connection.
Directors Of the Quincy valley irri
cation project are contemplating form
ing new district in order that the
validity Of the bonds may not in any
way be questioned.
Tacoma firemen had to send men
ahead with lanterns early Saturday
morning to find way for the appa
ratus to locate a burning house. sc
thick was the fog.
i A large representation from Is cities
of the Pacific coast and northwest at
tended the ninth annual sangerfest Of
the Norwegian Singers association Of
the Pacific coast at Spokane. Saturday
and Sunday.
Wheat hauling. road work and other
summer activities Of Lincoln county
are being held up by inability of farm
ers and contractors to secure suffi
Gent live stock to move the crops and
handle other operations.
i A number Of takers are making ia,
profits by travelling through the state
representing themselves as Estate
scale inspectors" and finding fault
with scales in grocery stores and meat
markets and charging big fee for re
pairing them.
Several hundred dollars in city i'm
lprovements is the result Of the worl
of officers OF the town of Rosalia dur
ing the last six weeks, in arrestine
and putting to work Migrants, hoboes
and all indesirables who have drifted
into town under the pretense Of look
ing for work In the harvest fields.
The laying of the Masonic corner
stone at Waitsburg recently recalled
memories Of early days to Aunt Rosie
Keiser. age IS. In the spring OF 1856
she came from Illinois to Portland
crossing the plains by team, as all did