Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-07-10
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The crops in Lincoln county were
much benefited by recent rain.
John Lawlor, an Irish laboring man
aged nearly so years, was struck by
a mail train at Odessa, Sunday ant
almost instantly killed.
The Washington State Pharmaceu
teal association will hold it's annua.
meeting at Longmire Springs, Mount
Tacoma, July 10, IA and Is.
Estimates of the total shipments Of
fruit and produce from Wapato this
year place the figure at $500 carloads
the largest in it's history.
While the water pressure was low
Sunday fire destroyed a full block
of building at Stevenson, causing a
loss of l $4,000. 1t was the biggest fire
in the towns history.
In an aggregate of almost $4,000 fires
through Illinois last year 80 persons
lost their lives, 40 persons were in
jured and property worth more than
$1,000 600 was destroyed.
t- ea MtIHT
The frequency of bank burglaries
and holdups in the state within the
last few months has o%ccasioned a
warning from the protection commit
tee of the Washington Bankers assoc
citation.
Thirty-five carloads of cherries, val
ued to the grower at $4,000 to $37, 500,
have been shipped out OF North va
kima alone this season, and this is
estimated at about half the crop for
the entire valley.
The warm weather following the
rain of last week has been splendid for
growing crops. Wheat and vegetation
of all kinds have taken on a great
growth. The vegetable crop is i'm
mense.
A petition is being circulated at Ritz
vile calling for the submission to cleo
tors at the November election of the
question of whether saloons will be
opened there again. Two years ago
the city was voted dry by "a votes.
For the first time in SIS years Fred
erick Roth, a soldier with the expedl-
ton of Lieutenant Mullan, who built
the Mullan road through the Occur
d'Alenes from Fort Benton, Mont. to
Walla Walla in the late SOS, viewed
the falls of the Spokane river July 4.
Charles Matney, caught near Oregon
City, Ore, after a hard chase, charged
with stealing cattle from the Pacific
Cold Storage company, Toppenish, and
J. G. Engel, serving four months for
.assaulting a man with a razor, escap-
from Yakima jail Sunday, but were
recaptured.
Fifteen hundred people. including
most of the residents of the Wenas
valley and upward of 500 from North |
Yakima gathered at Clemans grove
n the lower Wenas, eight miles south,
for the Fourth of July celebration and
reunion of the Yakima Pioneer soci-
ETY..
After considerable experimental
work in orchard pollination in the Spo-
Kane valley. W. j. Young, assistant
lorticulturist of the state experiment
has issued a statement con-
the results of this experiment
alton, which can be secured by ask
ng.
The state tax commission has pre-
Jared for proposal to the next legisla-
.ure and submission by the legisla-
ure to the people a constitutional
amendment allowing greater freedom
n taxation legislation. The chief fea-
ure Of the proposed amendment is
hat it would allow legislation to seq
'egate the sources of state and local
'evenues, allowing the state to gain
is income solely from railroads and
'ther public service corporations, and
minor political subdivisions to levy
'olely upon other classes of property.
The first shipments of Klickitat
ange lambs to the Portland market
ave been made from Goldendale and
4yle. Uriah B. Trumbo, a sheepman
esiding at Goldendale, received $500
Ter head for five carloads of choice
ambs delivered at Goldendale, which
a recordbreaking price. Mr.. Trumbo
Las 1900 ewes from which the gross
'roceeds for wool and increase this
ear have been $6,544.. Buyers are
1885 per head or 5 IL cents
Ter pound for lambs off the Mt. Adams
.overnment pastures for September
delivery, but sheepmen are holding
ut for higher prices.