Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS

A heavy smoke hung over the Kitti
tas valley Sunday, indicating forest
fires.
The third alfalfa crop around Nab.
ton is being harvested, and promises
to surpass the first two yields.
Prominent lawyers of the state have
places on the program which, will be
given at the Washington State Bar As.
ISOLATION meet at Wenatchee this
week.
DR., T. F. Kane, former president of
the University of Washington, has va.
Gated the official residence on the cam
pus, and Henry Landes, dean of the
college of science and acting resident
phas moved in.
The new cottage ward buildings of
the northern hospital for the insane
at Sedro-Woolley, which will be com
pleted within a week, will give the
state the finest institution for the care
of the insane in the United States.
Mrs. Thomas Precious, wife of the
mayor of Gold Bar, Wash, was killed
and four injured, when an automobile
with a party from Everett to Gold Bar
struck a stump near Monroe recently.
Forest fire smoke obscured the road.
Labor Commissioner e. w. Olson
has sent out to all county attorneys
copies of the obligatory orders issued
by the commission fixing the minimum
wages for women and girls. This ac-
ton is to prepare the attorneys for
prosecution in cas- the orders are vio-
lated.
A forest fire was reported Sunday
from Ford, 10 miles south of Spring
dale where the flames swept a large
area Of ~logged-off lands and grain
fields. A number of small blazes are
reported from the Colville reservation
region.
An unprecedented demand for teach
ers who are graduates of the Wash
ington state college has resulted in 81
of the members of the June graduating
class having already accepted posi-
tons as instructors in high schools in
all parts of the state.
The work Of matchmaking the
streets at Dayton this summer, under
taken through cooperation of the Co.
lumbia county commissioners and the
Dayton city council, is finished, and is
regarded as one of the best public i'm
provements ever undertaken in that
county.
Frank Alexander's threshing ma
chine, running on the J. M. Baker farm
between Colfax and Thornton, was de-
stroyed Saturday following an explo-
sion in the separator. Elmer Hunley,
who was running the farm, lost be-
tween 500 and 600 sacks of threshed
wheat in the fire, but the grain was in
sured. No insurance.
The petitions for initiative measure
No. 3 the employment agency bill, and
No. 8, the 'first aid" bill, were counted
by Secretary of State Howell Satur-
day, and both were found to have suf-
ficient names to entitle them to go be-
fore the voters. The so-called init
pork barrel road bill, initiative meas
ure No. 10 of the "seven sisters" had
81, 015 valid signatures, S21 too few to
give it a place on the November bal
lot.
The threshing machine owned and
operated by Chris Paulson five miles
southwest of Tekoa exploded Satur-
day, being destroyed with 400 sacks
of wheat. The separator tender, Geo.
Strange, was burned before he could
get off the machine. Laws & Greegs'
machine, operating east Of Tekoa on
the reservation, exploded also, entail
ing a total loss. The continuation of
the machines burning have caused
many farmers to postpone threshing
until rain falls.
For the second annual convention
of the Northwest Merchants %associa-
ton to be held at Seattle, August II
20, the Seattle Sales Managers asso-
citation will provide the best possible
program. Among the entertainment
features decided upon are the "Mys-
tie Night; automobile rides over the
city for the merchants and their fam
lilies; three luncheons for the visiting
and an excursion to the
Puget Sound navy yard at Bremerton.