Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 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 and
almost instantly killed.
The Washington State Pharmaceu-
teal association will hold it's annual
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 its history.
While the water pressure was low
Sunday fire destroyed a full block
of building at Stevenson, causing a
loss of 5000. It was the biggest fire
in the towns history.
In an aggregate of almost 10000 fires
through Illinois last year 80 persons
lost their lives, 140 persons were in.
jured and property worth more than
100000 was destroyed.
The frequency Of bank burglaries
and holdups in the state within the
last few months has occasioned a
warning from the protection commit
tee of the Washington Bankers asso-
citation.
Thirty-five carloads of cherries, val
ued to the grower at 5000 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 So years Fred
erick Roth, 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 A.
Charles Matney, caught near Oregon
City, Ore, after hard chase, charged
with stealing cattle from the Pacific
Cold Storage company, Toppenish, and
]. c. Engel, serving four months for
a man with razor, escap-
ed 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
in 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
horticultural Of the state experiment
station, has issued statement con-
corning the results of this experiment
tation, which can be secured by ask
ing
Tho state <ov oorn ,iooior hoe pro
pared for proposal to the next legisla-
ture and submission by the legisla-
ture to the people a constitutional
amendment allowing greater freedom
in taxation legislation. The chief fea-
ture Of the proposed amendment Is
that it would allow legislation to seq
regate the sources of state and local
revenues, allowing the state to gain
its income solely from railroads and
other public service corporations, and
minor political subdivisions to levy
solely upon other classes of property.
The first shipments Of Klickitat
range lambs to the Portland market
have been made from Goldendale and
Lyle. Uriah B. Trumbo, a sheepman
residing at Goldendale. received $500
per head for five carloads of choice
lambs delivered at Goldendale. which
is recordbreaking price. Mr. Trumbo
has 1900 ewes from which the gross
proceeds for wool and increase this
year have been $6,544. Buyers are
offering 1885 per head or 10 cents
per pound for lambs off the Mt. Adams
government pastures for September
delivery, but sheepmen are holding
out for higher prices.