Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-12-04
WASHINGTON ITEM

George w. Brown, for 80 years a res.
ident of Paradise prairie, died re-
Gently, aged &c.
In a quarrel over hogs George AL |
fred Miller was shot and killed by |
John Hawkins Sunday morning. The |
shooting occurred seven miles north |
of Colfax.
The Charleston Valley league and
the Vineland Industrial club has
consolidated with the chamber of
commerce to work for the interests of
the valley.
Isaac Wilson and Mrs. Minerva r.
Spencer, both residents of Waitsburg,
were married recently. The bride
groom, who is 81. said he had not been
married before.
Fred Diehl of White lake, near Col.
vile, age IA, with a 90 caliber rifle,
shot and killed bald eagle weighing
% pounds and measuring seven feet
from tip to tip of the wings.
James A. Tucker of Concord, Mich,
for % years well-known poultry
Judge at all of the big shows in the
east. will Judge the Poultry Show and
Poultry Products congress to be held
in Spokane December IA to 49,
| Owing to the change in date of the
Lewiston Livestock show on account
of the quarantine because of foot and
mouth disease, the Pullman Hog show
dates are also changed. The new
dates for the Hog show are Deem
Der II and ~.
Burglaries and holdups are getting
common in Winona Sunday night two
safes, one at the postoffice and one
at the meat market, containing a little
change, were robbed The postoffice
safe was blown. There was no money
in 1t and the stamps were not taken.
With average reserves of &c per
cent and resources more than $4,50O,-
900 in excess Of those of year ago,
state banks of Washington make a
good showing in their reports in re-
Spouse to the fifth and probably last
call of 1914, the state bank examiner
states.
The state board of control announces
its budget for the coming biennium for
the IL state institutions and other re
quirements. The total amount asked
for all purposes is $3,9S9,199. Two
years ago $4,841,539 was requested
for all purposes, including purchase
of jute, and $4,063,530 was actually
appropriated.
Stepping into the police station a
Tacoma Sunday to view two men ar
rested Saturday night on a charge o
: passing bogus IS gold piece, Secre
Service Operative Thomas Foster o
3 Seattle recognized in George Kane
= one of the pair, an alleged counterfeit
e err on whose trail Foster had campe'
9 for three years. The operative toll
0 the police that Kane is under indie,
j. ment in California and that he also |
e wanted in Spokane for shooting pc
liceman.
d official Count.
g According to the official count {
the various counties, statewide prob
} bition carried at the election thi
! month by majority of 1851.
+ OF the 10 counties on the West Sid
u only five voted wet, and three Of thel
. -Thurston county (Olympia), Jeffe
y son and Mason counties-cOmbine
= gave a wet majority of only 5S
IL King county (Seattle) gave wet m
'e jority of 1858, and Pierce count
u (Tacoma) wet majority of 1882. SIX
d. git county led the dry counties {
the Coast with a majority of 1863
ss Clarke county (Vancouver) gave d.
majority of 1856; Whatcom (Bellin
Is ham), 1884; Snohomish, 2379; Lew
le (Chehalis), 1902.
BE Garfield was the only eastern Was
AZ ington county to give majority
~ the vets. As votes. Yakima was t
W banner county in the state for t
II. dries, rolling up a majority of 51'
~ Whitman gave dry majority Of 4O3
re Walla Walla, 2054; Chelan, 1897. Al
oe tin, according to it's population, CT
Ill the heaviest dry vote, 1477 to AIS.
ne The only initiative measure besid
Oh statewide prohibition to carry was I
8, abolishing employment offic
III. which won out by a majority of 17,6
'.s King county gave 10000 for
~ measure, Snohomish 1000, Whatc
~ 1000 and Pierce 1000. Spokane gs
ao- nearly 5000 against the measure.
United States Senator.
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