Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-08-21
WASHINGTON ITEMS

WASHlNOlON uEMS
Crops are reported largest in some
ears in Big Bend country.
Otis B. Fuller died recently at We
latchee after a years struggle win
ancer.
A crop moving fund of $500 has
'een named for Spokane by the federal
government.
Contractors who are building the
state highway between Cusick ane
Jsk. have Is teams at work.
The regular quarterly meeting Of
the state board Of pharmacy will D.
held in Spokane September 10 and ~
Spokane county commissioners have
chosen 43 acres of land two miles east
of Spokane as the site OF the Tuber
culosis sanitarium.
Each day appears to bring hOrdee
of grasshoppers to the vicinity OF RITE
Vile, and most every green thing =
falling prey to them.
The extension department of WASH
ington State college is now conducting
a series of farmers demonstrators
schools on the West Side.
The merchants Of Centralia are OF
ganizing an association and will l'ue
in credit rating system and affiliate
with the state organization.
The body found in the Spokane
river at Shoshone recently, has beeA
identified as that of Howard B. Mo
Mains, broom-maker, aged Al.
Actual construction work on the
Chelan county portion of the Cascade
scenic highway will start this week
with F. w. Easley of Chelan in charge
Mike Sullivan, a well-known home
steader living four miles south OF
Sprague, committed suicide by jump
ing in an old we'll on the Hank Renar6
ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Parham Of North
Yakima celebrated the sixty-second an
niversary of their marriage Saturday.
Mr.. Parham is nearly "a years old ans
Mrs. Parham is nearly 80.
Editor Chas. A. Smith, formerly ~
the Coulee City Dispatch and wide,s
known in western Washington All
northern Idaho, died recently Of cancei
of the liver at his home in Coulee City
The MacLaughlin cannery. recent,
completed at cost of $4,000. opened
| for business August 6, and the first
three days handled 100 tons Of pears
The have contracted for 200 tons more
| In an effort to save the life OF .
young woman friend who had accident
ally fallen overheard, Robert 8. Coop
er, an electrician. recently was drown
ed at Everett in the Snohomish river
She was rescued.
Fire Sunday totally destroyed the
large dairy barn OF the Imperial dairy.
owned by l.. e. Moore and located
Just east OF Pullman. together with
100 tons of hay, the milk house and
several outbuildings.
Two engines and a caboose running
light from Moscow crashed into work
train In the yards of the Spokane q
Inland at Palouse Sunday, smashing
and telescoping several cars and piling
them up on the track.
Kelp beds off the coast of Washing.
ton may be made the basis of this
} country's supply of gunpowder az .
J result of the European war, is indicat
ed by inquiries made by the Dupont
| Powder company of Wilmington, Del
: Kelp is rich In potassium salts. Tho
) kelp beds are the property of the state
'. A fierce fire in E. NJ McKin
.. ney's wheat, burned 400 acres a
.. standing grain near Waitsburg. So
: turday. c. Neace was pulling hil
:. threshing outfit into the McKinnel
field, and while the engine was ON ,
move a spark escaped, setting fire Il
the grain. Mr.. McKinney's damage
. estimated at $4,000, we'll insured.
e An advance Of l cent pound in tn
r prices being offered for Yakima val
ley hops has given rise to grower
hopes of still greater advances on ~
count of the European war. The va
ley will raise about 10000 bales thu
l. year, lHc ldI 6CoI ~ has OvCA uoO ~
market, but in face of the present COZ
). ditions dealers are finding 1t imposs
a hle to buy.
Il Warden Drum Of the state prison Al
e nounces that all sack orders have bee
If filled and the jute mill will be shu
IT down September for the annual owe
t. hauling. About 100000 bags will b
g. on hand by that time. They will b
t. sold on the open market at eight cent
q With but half the mill in operatio
a. this year the output will be 10000
70 Last year. with all working, the turl
al out was 100000.
Joseph w. Codd is in a Colfax no
pital, with bullet lodged in his BAG
He and his younger brother, James
~ Codd, were for time under ARE
a. following shooting affray near Thor
10 ton. The arrest Of the two your