Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-07-31
WASHINGTON ITEMS

pected to take the examinations at
Spokane August q, IS and 29.
Joseph Morrow, aged 40, lost his life
in a fire that followed an explosion at
the plant Of a fireworks company at
Spokane.
Amalgamation of Spokane university
and Whitworth college, Spokane's two
new higher educational institutions,
is being agitated.
BY careless dumping of fire from an
engine 500 sacks of what on the Max
kleson place near Waitsburg, were
destroyed Sunday.
Sweeping reductions in freight rates
on coal from the Roslyn fields to all
points in the state are proposed in
findings of the state public service
commission.
State Treasurer Ed Meath has re
ceived from the federal government
$4,000 as the appropriation for the
experiment work of the state college
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1914.
G. ]. Kemp, aged Sc, president of the
Kemp & HILBERT department store, a
resident of Spokane for nearly thirty
years, died at Seaside, Ore, Saturday.
Death vas caused by internal hemorr-
hayes following a long illness.
While men, women and children of
Roslyn Wash, recently filled the tent
of Myrtle Wilson, billed in a travelling
show as "the strangest women alive"
she wa bitten by a rattlesnake and
died of the poisoning soon after.
The survey of the Palouse irrigation
project, ordered by the last session of
the state legislature, Is rapidly near
ing completion. The legislature appro.
priated $4,000 toward the survey, the
federal government allowing a similar
amount, and the actual work being
done by the United States reclamation
service.
Burning permits issued by the state
forester and fire warden during June
show that a much larger acreage than
last year is being made ready for agri.
cultural use. The total Of permits was
1888 for an acreage of 25,857 of agri-
cultural land, as compared with 1888
permits for an acreage of 1854 is.
sued in June, 1913.
Fire Saturday destroyed the big
| sawmill plant, lumber stock and wharf
of the Mountain Timber company on
the Columbia river front at Kalama,
The loss was estimated at 1915, 1000, OF
which $250,000 was covered by insur'
ance. The plant is owned by Nebras.
ka capitalists. 1t is expected that II
will be rebuilt at n
For the second time within six
months the postoffice and H. ]. Tip
toms general store at Othello were
robbed Saturday of about $500 in cash
and negotiable paper. About $500 was
secured from the postoffice, the
thieves also taking many of the office
records, but leaving postage stamps,
The store suffered a considerably
larger loss.
The dominating feature of Tuesdays
program for the annual meeting OF the
Washington Association for the Pre-
vention and Relief of tuberculosis al
Tacoma, was the laying of the corner
stone for Pierce county's new tuber
culosis sanitarium. This is the first
institution to be erected under the re
cent law and much interest is attached
to the undertaking.
Struck by lightning, laid away ano
covered up as dead until the storm enc
so burial could be made, Oscar Rosen
quist, a boy, member of a camping
party, near Martha lake, a few miles
from Edmonds gave the party a sec
ond shock by creeping around to theil
tent 20 minutes after the electrical
storm broke. It is believed the sever
drenching revived him.
The increased number of smut ex
plosions in the harvest fields OF the
Palouse country has given rise to {
number of plans to prevent further
destruction. OF the 26 stationary ma
chimes known to have started worl
during the last week Is have been de
stroyed by smut explosion and fires. I
is an unprecedented average and {
number of farmers who have not start
ed their machines are fearing to begir
operations.
Figures compiled from acciden'
claims by the industrial insurance com
mission show that the shop safet!
campaign is having a marked effect Ii
cutting down accidents due to the non
safeguarding of machines. From DC
tober l, 1913, to June 1, 1914, accidents
from this cause decreased from e.:
per cent Of the total reported to 2 PEI
cent. During this period a total O
1878 claims were received, of which
6214, or "A per cent, were classed al
"non-mechanical."
FIRES.
In a fire at Northport Wednesday il
which the loss is estimated at $1,000 0
the following mercantile losses are re
ported: Warehouse, Kendrick Mercan
tila nornanv e1s 0nn. w II Case