Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-02
WASHINGTON ITEMS

the five holdover members Of the state
board of university regents.
A. r. Jackson of Centralia, who re.
Gently shot and killed Arthur Ainsler
at Tacoma, is out on $4,000 bond
The gaeatest gold strike ever made
In Washington state, is the report on
recent discoveries near Chesaw.
Whitman county bears the distinc-
ton of being the fourth richest farm
ing county in the United States.
The hospital corps of the national
guard Is at Centralia to take charge
Of the typhoid fever epidemic there.
George w. Whitcher of Spokane has
been appointed scaler of weights and
measures for Spokane and Pend
Oreille counties.
All card tables and cardrooms in
every poolhall have been put out of
business at Wenatchee by a recent or
der of the mayor.
Safely covered with nearly six inches
Of snow, the fall-sown wheat crop of
the Walla Walla valley is secure from
the chilling winter.
Bluetsem wheat is the best for Big
Bend counties, according to State
Grain Inspector, who says this vari-
ETY. gives the most satisfactory re-
suits.
In the first eight months of the
present biennium, ended November 30,
the II state institutions have spent
$62S, 3S8.74 of their total maintenance
appropriations of $2.094,535.
Professor Henry Laudes, state ge-
ologist and dean of the school of sci
ences at the University of Washing
ton. was elected acting president OF
the university to succeed DR.. Thomas
f. Kane, removed.
G. G. Aspinwall was relieved as SUI
perintendent of the state training
school at Chehalis January l, at the
same time that Cleon B. Roe was sue
ceeded by Donald B. Olson as super
intendent of the Monroe reformatory
Medical inspection of students Of
Davenport schools will be inauguratel
soon. Physicians have agreed to ex
anime pupils free, reporting any sc
rious deficiencies or defects to thu
superintendent, and he in turn will
communicate to the parents.
IN
starvation DOCTOR" was sentenced il
the Kitsap county court for man
slaughter, in causing the death of Mis-
Clare Williamson by starvation. Sh'
| will serve from two to 20 years at tn
state penitentiary, beginning thi
week.
Seattle won a big victory in tn
supreme court recently. 1t was dis
missal Of the appeal Of the Seattle
Renton & Southern railroad compan,
from decision of the state supreme
court. requiring the company to issu
transfers to the Seattle Electric com
pany on so per cent basis.
In the opinion of State Bank Exam
liner not one of the 270 state bank
Of Washington will be eligible to com
under the national currency act b.
joining the regional bank for this dis
l'trict. The law says: mo bank shall
subscribe for or purchase the stock O
any other bank or corporation"
A big camp meeting of Indians
in progress at White Swan, near Tor
penish, which has attracted nearly SO
Indians, including many from Britisl
Columbia, Puget Sound and Idaho
This one is one of the largest reunion
Of Indians held for several years, an
while there Is distinct religion
flavor to the gathering, the entertain
ment features are not being overlooh
ed.
State property valued at consider
ably over $250,000 will be disposed G
at public auction January 6, at tn
county seats of 26 counties. The sal
is primarily for the benefit of farm
ers who desire to secure state land
in time for spring planting. The easi
ern Washington counties in whic
land will be sold are Benton, Chelar
Franklin, Grant, Klickitat, Lincolr
Spokane. Stevens, Whitman and Yal
ina.
The following figures are given l
the new city directory concerning Spt
kane: Area, So IA square miles; al
sessed valuation, $89,987,215; actus
valuation, $153. 223,383; tax rate. 20 1.
mills; total value of city public pro-
erty 1911-12), $4,000, 900; bonded del
$4,760,000; miles of paved street
Q911), "a; miles of paved street
(1912). 62.26; graded streets (1912
1862; walks, concrete, $685. miles
cost Of street cleaning 191D, $4,000
sewers (191D. 9 miles; sewer (1912
1899 miles; gas mains (1911). Il
miles; gas mains (1912), 127 IL miles
electric street railways u912). 1;
miles.
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