Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-21
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Otis B. Fuller died recently at We
natchee after a years struggle with
cancer.
A crop moving fund OF $350.000 kse
been named for Spokane by the federse
government.
Contractors who are building the
state highway between Cusick ara
Usk, have 15 teams at work.
The regular quarterly meeting al
the state board of pharmacy will be-
held in Spokane September 10 and IS
Spokane county commissioners have
chosen 43 acres of land two miles east
of Spokane as the site of the TubeF
culosis sanitarium.
Each day appears to bring horde4s
of grasshoppers to the vicinity of Rits-
vile, and most every green thing S8
falling prey to them.
The extension department of WASH
ington State college is nov conducting
a series of farmers demonstration
schools on the West Side.
The merchants of C~entraIia are or
ganizing an association and will srt&
in a credit rating system and affiliate
with the state organization.
The body found in the SpokaRs
river at Shoshone recently, has bees
identified as that of Howard b. Me-
Mains, a 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 weil-known home
steader living four miles south a
Sprague, committed suicide by jump
ing in an old we'll on the Hank Renare
ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Parham of North
Yakima celebrated the sixty-second an
%niversary of their marriage Saturday.
Mr.. Parham is nearly 81 years old aHe
Mrs. Parham is nearly 81.
Editor Chas. A. Smith, formerly q
the Coulee City Dispatch and wideH
known in western Washington arr
northern Idaho, died recently of canoe,
of the liver at his home in Coulee City
The Mclaughlin cannery, reeentis
completed at a cost of S12, 900, opeaeE
for business August 6, and the firss
three days handled 100 IONS 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. Coos
er, an electrician, recently was drowk
ed at Everett in the Snohomish riveg
She was rescued.
Fire Sunday totally destroyed the
large dairy barn of the Imperial dairy
owned by l.. e. Moore and l0cafe&
just east of Pullman, together vita
40 tons of hay, the milk house ana
several outbuildings.
Two engines and a caboose running
light from Moscow crashed into a WORK
train in the yards of the Spokane 4
Inland at Palouse Sunday, smashing
and %telescoping several cars and piiins
them up on the track.
Kelp beds off the coast Of Washing
tor may be made the basis of this
country's supply of gunpowder as Q
result of the European war, is indicat
ed by inquiries made by the Dupond
Powder company of Wilmington. Del
Kelp is rich in potassium salts. The
kelp beds are the property of the state
ftnHna ffrA In IL HAnREa-
ney's wheat, burned 400 acres 0s
standing grain nea Waitsburg, Sa-
turday. c. Neace was pulling his
threshing outfit into the Mckinney
field, and while the engine was ON 6
move a spark escaped, setting fire t.
the grain. Mr.. McKinney's damage IL
estimated at s12,0 900, well insured.
An advance of / cen a pound in the
prices being offered for Yakima VA
ley hops has given rise tt growers
hopes of still greater advances on as
count of the European war. The vas.
ley will raise about 10000 bales this
year, the largest 1t has ever had foa
market, but in face of the present cor
ditions dealers are finding it impoase
bic to buy.
Warden Drum of the state prison an
nounces that all sack orders have beeS
filled and the jute mill will be shue
down September 1 for the annual over
hauling. About 100000 bags will be
on hand by that time. They will he
sold on the open market at eight oentg
With but half the mill ir operation
this year the output will be 100000
Last year, with all working. the turn
out was 100000
Joseph w. Codd is in a Colfax he's
pital, with a bullet lodged In his back
He and his younger brother, James X
Codd, were for a time under argesa
following a shooting ARRAY near Thorn
ton. The arrest of the two young
men was caused by Ike Baker, a farm.
er living near Pennington, following
a fight between the two Spokane me&
and Baker, in which James Codd is