Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-05-29
WASHINGTON ITEMS

2S, was discovered near Fort Wright.
Spokane, last Monday.
Preparations are being made for th'
southern Grant county pioneer picnic
on Crab creek May 1880.
DR.. William Waldo of Seattle was re
Gently elected president of the Wash
ington Osteopathic association.
The wool crop of the Yakima valley |
will total 2,25O,0O0 pounds, the selling
price being Is to Is cents per pound.
Mrs. Dora H. Rowe, wife OF Episco,
pal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe OF
Alaska, died Saturday, aged 55 years
Judge Orange Jacobs, chief justice
of the Washington territorial supreme
court from 1868 to 1874, died in Seat
lie Saturday, aged 81 years.
Mrs. N. L. Dillman, formerly Mrs
Lena Tuttle, age about 4S. committed
suicide by shooting on homestead
IL miles down the Grand coulee.
While attempting to rope a horse
Elmer E. Pintler fell from his saddle
and became entangled In the saddle
rope, was dragged to death near Cur
lew.
In q decision rendered by the state
supreme court it upholds the constitu-
tionality Of the state commission mer-
chant law, which has been dead let
ter for several years.
The new public service commits
sion's railroad map Of the state OF
Washington has just been issued.
showing all lines either in operation
or projected in this state.
George Maxwell and Floyd LaBatt
boys, were drowned in Lake Washing
ton Saturday by the capsizing OF {
rowboat which they had rented for the
afternoon to witness the college re
gatta.
Mrs. Charles, E. Gates, wife Of a
farmer living five miles northeast OF
Spokane, while temporarily insane
poisoned her daughter, Dorothy, age IA
years, and took her own life by swal
lowing strychnine.
County Commissioner James Stuart
Of North Yakima says he will face re
call from office rather than oversteI
the legal bounds prescribed for it's reg
ulation in giving county help in the
fight against pear blight.
The body of well-dressed woman
found on Fauntleroy beach, Seattle
was identified as that of Mrs. Jose
phine Gunther, AZ years old, wife o
Theodore Gunther, a cabinetmaker
She had committed suicide.
The right OF the state horticulture
department to condemn potatoe
shipped in from outside the stat
when they are afflicted in the slight
o est degree with tubermoth has bee
y upheld by Superior Judge Kennel
d Macintosh Of Seattle.
Mrs. Anna Valentine, wife of L. |
Valentine, Chicago furniture man,
{ facturer, recently got judgment {
i the loss of little finger. which wa
l. crushed by q spring door while sh
T. was travelling from Portland to s.
attic on train.
q Fifty-two prisoners at the count
" stockade at Seattle were potent ia
le tor in saving scores of homes outsid
le the northern city limits, which wei
le threatened by rapidly spreading TO
9. est fire Saturday. While they a
worked on their honor not one faile
il. to report back
Y Attorney General McReynolds h;
;, : written Clark Savidge, commission
= of public lands that he can not a
:, prove a plan to exchange 10000 acr
- of public domain with the state +
state lands in sections 16 and
to school sections, on which homestea
"a ers settled before survey was made
ne Austin Corbin, vice president of L
&c Spokane International Railway co
N pany, and George H. Martin, genel
he freight and passenger agent, plead
charging them with violation Of
~ terstate commerce regulations. a
=, were fined $4,000, or $4,000 each,
~ Federal Judge Frank H. Rudkin. 7
Oh fine was paid. The road had CARR
"a freight free for Mr.. Corbin.
nd Formation of the Almira Tradi
Use company. with capital stock of 81
I'd 900, which Ia being subscribed by
mira business men and farmers, "
effected this week. and the new &C
pany will take over the mercant
ma. business, warehouses and real est
DID OF ]. G. Keller, who for 30 years
OF operated one Of the largest stores
,ed eastern Washington. The new trad
DOL company also takes over the holdil
Is of Blinn & Howard, merchants.
AZ The 400 Washington state coll,
the cadets, under the command of Ca