Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-03-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The state general fund is overdrawn
$96O.731.
The Ellensburg Business Mems AS
ISOLATION has been formed.
Seven big lumber plants at Everett
have declared for the open shop,
which means fight on unions.
Friday. March 13. was given official
standing as Salmon day" by a proc
lamation issued by Governor Lister.
The tunnel Of the Cascade irrigation
district through the hill opposite
Thorp, .212O feet long, was bored
through Friday.
The funeral Of Zell M. Beebe, former
Colfax pioneer. killed by an automo-
bile accident in California 10 days ago,
was held Sunday.
After over 20 years service the
manufacturing part of the Gilbert
Hunt company plant was closed Satur-
day at Walla Walla.
Louis Hefte, teamster, aged so.
shot himself in the head with q re-
volver at Spokane Saturday. Booze
is given as the reason.
Fruitmen of Walla Walla valley have
organized for the eradication and pre-
vention Of the diseases and insect
pests now attacking fruit trees.
Because she did not appear in time
to claim the estate of Nicholas Hos
cheid, the widow will lose the Kittitas
county property, valued at about $1,000
Notwithstanding heavy roads the
sessions of the extension school, un-
der auspices of the Lincoln County
Development league, was well attend
ed.
A referendum vote taken at the
convention of the Farmers unions of
Whitman county showed but one
union in favor of employing farm
expert.
Mrs. Stella Maris, a widow, and her
two daughters, Gayle. age Z, and Hell
en-, age 4, were burned to death near
Spokane Saturday when their home
burned.
Toppenish has purchased a King
road drag for its streets. The dates
for holding the next Indian fair and
roundup have been set for September
8, 4 and 6.
Only about 10 per cent Of the water
power In the state of Washington that
may. under practical conditions, be
generated all the year around, has
been developed.
The body Of the Shaw boy, who was
drowned with his father and sister.
and presumably his mother, in the
swoolen waters Of the Selah creek re-
Gently, has been found.
The mass meeting Of citizens Of
Whitman, Adams and Franklin coun-
ties to discuss the Palouse irrigation
project, will be held in Colfax March
z, instead Of March 2, as first planned.
William Wilson and Arthur Letter.
who confessed to forgery. were SEN
fenced at Pasco. Letter was given
SIX months to 10 years in Monroe re-
Wilson two to Is years in
Walla Walla prison.
Walter Schroeder. 81 years old, and
his brother. Clifford Schroeder, 10
years old. were drowned in Lake I'm
lon. Seattle. Sunday, when a small mo-
torboat in which they were riding was
swamped by the rough water.
At the meeting Of the Stevens Coun-
" Live Stock association recently, A.
Morrison of Valley was elected pres
dent; Joseph Reynolds of Meyers
Falls, vice president; James Craw-
ord Of Colville. secretary, and G. M.
Baker Of Narcisse, treasurer.
Ned Harris, a pioneer farmer Of the
Bald Ridge county, ia in the Lincoln
county Jail awaiting the filing of a
charge. His son, Ray Harris, "a, is
near death at the Hartwell place, IA
miles northeast the result Of q ter
rible stab given by the father.
Harry e. Goldsworthy. graduate
rom the agricultural department of
he Washington State college, will
20 sent into the Big Bend country
~ the Washington State college to |
make extensive investigations con-
,erning the problems which confront |
he farmers there.
The bureau Of statistics and immi-
ration. under the office of Secretary
# State I. M. Howell, has designated
darch 81 and % as the tentative dates
or the gathering in Olympia Of rep
Of commercial organiza-
ions from all over the state OF dis
'uss ways and means of accommo-
ating to the best advantage the In
lux of immigrants expected upon the
pening of the Panama canal.
During the year Just passed the
alue Of the salmon pack in the state
Exceeded that of any previous year.
records recently compiled show the
,upef sound mach during 1914 IN havo