Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-12-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Our governor Saturday proclaimed |
statewide prohibition adopted as a |
law of the state, to be operative, as
provided in the bill, on January 1, |
1916.
The general merchandise store of
Miller & Jess at Charleston was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday. the loss
reaching $4,000, with $4,000 insur
ance.
The chamber of commerce excur
sion from Spokane to the Northwest
Live Stock show at lewiston will
leave Spokane at 4 p m. Wednesday,
December 16.
Carl Stanley, proprietor of the Pal
ace barber shop at Toppenish, was ac-
cidentally killed Sunday night by the
discharge of a gun, the charge hitting
him in the heart
Representative J. A. Falconer, who
retires from congress next March,
seems to have decided his business
future by a plunge into the oil bust
ness in Oklahoma.
While crossing the Milwaukee rail
road tracks at Kittitas, six miles east
of Ellensburg, Saturday, Thos. Mudd,
well.known valley rancher, was
struck by train and probably fatal
ly injured.
| A train of eight cars containing 100
| horses left Colfax Sunday for New
| OrIn w thov will
be used by the French government in
the war; At Rosalia several cars more
were added.
Sentenced to from 10 to 20 years
in the state penitentiary for the kill
ing of Eunice Stalker one week ago,
Edward Keyes, who pleaded guilty to
second degree murder, was notified
that. he would get the maximum.
Club wheat went to the highest
price in years at Walla Walla Satur-
day, several good sized lots being sold
at $1O6A and $1.061s, though the
prevailing price was $1.O5h. The
highest price heretofore has been
$1.05.
| 1ONciHOI iLlSIcI lSIt Wy APld ool-
urday to be absent about ten days,
with his route and destination unan-
nounced. His physician declared that
our governor, while not seriously i'll,
was in need of complete rest from
office work and change of scene.
i Plans for a system of state and
school district cooperation to allow
the introduction of vocational educa-
ton as part of the public school sys-
tenn of Washington were completed by
!, conference of educators at Olympia
. Saturday, using the report of Mrs.
Josephine Prestons vocational com.
mission of seven as a basis
Government engineers have estab-
lished a base of operations for the
! winter in the Improvement of the Co
lumbia river between Lincoln and
/ Kettle Falls. Scows equipped with
. dredging apparatus have been install
ed and the work has been in active
operation for the last month. The es
! timated quantity Of rock to be remov
ed in the elimination Of instructions
in the river is $4,000 cubic yards ii
80 localities and these are to be sub
merged to a depth of seven feet be
low low water mark.
The activities of the Pullman Dairy
mans association. organized tentative
ly last summer, bore fruit recent!
when A. J. Lashbrook arrived in Pull
man to at once enter upon his duties
as field dairy specialist. Mr.. Lash
brook, who comes from Minnesota, il
employed jointly by the State Colleg'
of Washington and the United State
government al d, upon their own I'M
tiative, the farmers comprising the lo
cal dairy association will each pay
certain amount per cow yearly TO
services rendered by the expert.
The byproducts board of the frui
products congress after recent NEE,
ing declared in favor of a centra
\ agency for the selling of byproduct
I of fruits of all plants in the Pacifi
nor..nwest. The board also favored III
construction cs strictly cooperative b!
products plants in all fruit-growin
districts. The board went on recor
:. as disappearing selling stock In fru
- canneries, evaporators and other b!
~ product enterprises by promoters an
- agreed to give assistance to byprodut
:. enterprises without charge except e.
~ penses. A fund Of $4,000 is to be asl
ed for that purpose. The amalgam
n ton of all green fruit selling agencie
" will be taken up at the meeting Of tn
IL board in Seattle January % and ;
% Portland, January %, the organizatic
a Of central byproduct selling agent
o. will be perfected.
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