Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS

pioneers of Whitman county, Is dead
The state has increased its bond
holdings virtually 100000 during
1913.
Stuart A. Rice, secretary of the in
dustrial welfare commission, has re-
signed.
The 100000 bond issue for the
Quincy valley irrigation district passed
by large majority.
Anna Harrington, aged IS years,
former school teacher, killed herself
at Spokane by the boo route.
Miss Kate Stone, for several years
resident of Ritzville, has assumed
her duties as state seed inspector.
Lumber mills Of the Inland Empire
shipped during the season of 1913 ap-
proximately 841,742,268 feet of lum-
Der.
The state supreme court has re-
versed its former decision and de-
clares the Spokane wage scale OF 50
ordinance valid.
The twentieth annual meeting of
the Washington State Beekeepers' as
ISOLATION was held at North Yakima
January and 8.
The stamp sales in the Spokane
postoffice for December, 1913, amount
ed to $57,664.79, as against $50,310.16
for December, 1912.
For a consideration of $4,000, the
Big Bend Light and Power company
was recently sold to the Washington
Water Power company.
More than 700 birds from Washing
for the annual show of the Yakima
Poultry association this week.
The Pacific Northwest Hardware
and Implement Dealers association
will hold it's ninth annual convention
in Spokane January 81. % and %.
Bhe county farmers union at Pom
900 Calcutta grain bags. The price
is $8.72 per 100 delivered to the
farmer.
William Weir, for % years a mem
Der OF the Spokane police and for
nearly four years a captain, has been
made chief of the Spokane police de-
partment.
The Rev. M. H. Marvin, Method
list minister, Of Sunnyside, was re-
Gently appointed a member of the in
dustrial welfare commission by the
governor.
Horace Wilke, age 2" years, team
ster at Spokane, put Colts revolver
between his teeth Saturday night and
pulled the trigger, sending a bullet
through his brain.
The first regular passenger train
on the Oroville-Pateros branch of the
Great Northern, was run recently.
Regular service will be maintained
three times week.
The state bureau of inspection ex-
poets to show within short time ex-
actly what is the total debt of the
state and it's constituent parts. Such
figures have never before been COM
piled.
Charles Harold Gray of Seattle, a
1913 graduate of the University OF
Washington and formerly of the
Broadway high school, Seattle, was
awarded the Rhodes scholarship, ap-
portioned to the state.
The cereal output Of Washington
for the period ended June 80, 1913,
based on the sworn statements of the
managers of all the warehouses in
the state, in compliance with a law
enacted in 1911, was 41,302,250 bushels.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
X. Lane charges that the state of
Washington is interfering with govern
ment work on the Sunnyside portion of
the Yakima reclamation project, by
Withholding school lands for specula-
ton.
Wages of female factory employees
in the state, gathered and compiled by
Tic luuublAAoA WOAoAO NOAAhAAooAOAsS
show 1882 of the 1853 women and girls
listed In the investigation, or 61.7 per
cent, receive weekly wages of less
than 50.
Nine sections Of land along the
Pend Oreille river, In Stevens county,
previously withdrawn by the govern
ment because 1t was believed the land
contained waterpower sites. have been
restored to entry by an order Of the
government land office.
In a fit of anger Louis Trickle. age
"a, a cook, killed his wife. Mary. age
26. and attempted suicide at Spokane,
Sunday. Trickle went there from
Kellogg, Idaho, where he had been en-
ployed as a cook. With his wife he
had been working in La Grande, Ore.
until few months ago.
The big sawmill plant Of the Pa
cific States Lumber company of Ia
coma at Selleck, As miles from Ia.
coma, was destroyed by fire Sunday.
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