Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-10-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Saturday bluesteam wheat reached
s1.ol at Spokane.
Prosser's hog and corn show last
week was an unqualified success.
The paper mill at Spokane is run.
ming night and day to fill orders.
From Trout Lake. in western Kick
itat, comes word of the death of David
kile, self-inflicted
The Stevens County Live Stock as.
ISOLATION at Colville, October 27-2S-29
was great success.
The most successful teachers in
stitutes in the history of Garfield
county closed last week.
1t cost s13,774 643 to operate the
common schools of Washington dur
ing the last school year.
With a continuation of the present
fine weather the North Yakima coun
ty road authorities plan considerable
work.
The Masonic and Eastern Star
lodges recently held a house warming
in the new Masonic hall, just complet-
ed at Ritzville.
Night Marshal A. r. Forbes of Pay
allup fatally shot Leo Nelson, a cooper.
while walking along a road A case of
mistaken identity.
Gwin Hicks, former state printer,
has been appointed superintendent OF
the Washington state exhibit at the
San Diego exposition.
The death of Hans p. Johansen at
Wenatchee Saturday was the result
of being struck on the head with Il
beer bottle in the hands of William
Hudson.
Thirty-three years ago when Mrs.
A. f. Frantz of Wenatchee was a girl,
she swallowed a needle. Last week
the needle made its appearance in her
left leg and was removed,
The state agricultural department
has completed its budget for the forth
coming biennium. 1t has decided to
state fair at North Yakima
Walla Walia dealers Saturday Of
fered 81 net for club wheat and re-
ceived an avalanche of it. City sales
were close of 100000 bushels, the
heaviest selling of the year
Thomas H. Grimmett, farmer, So
nj a ch Il
his wife, aged 40, in hallway of a
lodging house at Seattle conducted by
the woman, and then shot and killed
himself.
w. J. Hoy of st. Paul, who was
awarded the contract for the North
ern Pacific grade separation work
in Spokane, which will cost in the
neighborhood Of 100000, is going to
start work Immediately
Manager L. r. Witt of the Yakima
Sheep company of North Yakima, who
is also president of the Washington
Wool Growers association, has been
missing since Wednesday and an in
vestigation into his accounts is being
made by the officers of the company. |
Corbaley canyon, the long roadway |
leading from Waterville down to the
other fatal auto accident Saturday |
night when the machine driven by N. |
e. Rice, a baker, of Tekoa, Whitman |
county, went over grade, injuring |
Mrs. Rice, who died next day
Ten per cent of the crop of 10000 |
bales of hops in the Yakima valley is |
not worth more than 3 cents per
pound, one buyer estimates, because
of lack of experience in handling the
berries" Purchases were made free |
cents per pound, and the prices rang |
ed up to 10 cents, one choice lot bring |
ing II cents. Half the crop still re- |
mains in the hands of the producers.
The 1914 grain crop of Whitman |
county was worth $S,400,000 at a con-
sentative estimate, without counting |
any advance that may be made in
prices on the amount remaining in |
the hands of the farmers. This is
one Of the most profitable crops the |
has produced, despite the fact |
that the yield was below the average |
and the quality OF wheat was not good |
owing to the general prevalence of
smut.
Officers and posses are guarding |
every road in western Whatcom coun-
ty in the expectation of capturing the |
one surviving bandit of the band that |
held up the First National bank of |
Sedro- Woolley October II and escap-
ed with $11.649. Two of the outlaws |
were killed near Hazelmere, B. G. on
Thursday morning and two others |
were shot to death as they were cross
ing the railroad bridge at Ferndale. A |
total of $6155 was found on the
bodies of the four robbers. The fifth |
of the gang, the officers be-
lieve still is in the vicinity of Fern
dale and his escape Is considered i'm