Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-06-05
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Walla InlS week.
Memorial day was generally celebra-
ted throughout the Inland Empire.
Okanogan County Sunday School
convention June and 8 at Brewster.
After June l there will be but one
boat from Wenatchee to Brewster and
return daily
William Click, who was killed by an
O.-W. r. 4 N. passenger train, was
buried at Tekoa Saturday.
Lebam was practically wiped out by
fire which caused losses aggregating
half million dollars last week.
That work will start on the Portage
canal to connect Port Townsend bay
with Oak bay is the latest report
The building for the creamery at
Coulee City is now completed await
ing the arrival OF delayed machinery.
Forty Tacoma and Seattle members
of the Mountaineers' club climbed Mt
Wow Sunday for the first time in it's
history.
The Ephrata State bank has opened
for business at Ephrata, Wash, with
O. A. Kuck as president and H. B.
Smead as cashier.
The annual convention of county
school superintendent will open at
Olympia Monday, June 8, and con-
tinue for three days.
The oldest Knight of Pythias in
Washington, both in age and term OF
membership, is conceded by Pythians
to Judge N. T. Cation of Davenport
A vigorous demand that the govern
menl abolish the leper colony at Dia
mond Point has been sent to Wash
ington bv the commercial club of Port
| Angeles.
Fire destroyed the west end OF
Front street, Leavenworth early Sun
day morning, from the Overland ho-
tel building to the bridge. The loss is
about $31, 900.
| Henry Fry, a Seattle G. A. r. vet
Gran, dropped dead from heart failure
Friday after making a speech at "a
school, in which he said he soon would
be mustered out.
| Eva r. Searle, reported lost on the
Empress of Ireland. was on her way
from Tacoma to her mother in Bright
on, England She was church choir
singer and was buyer for q depart
ment store.
| Tho hOdu ~ Mics tha Col iv,,I.
! aged 16, who disappeared from hos
pital at Spokane May "a was found
in the Spokane river about three-quar-s
ters Of mile below the Fort George.
Wright May 81. :,
Attorney Charles p. Lund of Spd-
kane has been appointed by the SUI
preme court a member of the state bar
examining board. He succeeds Judge
Byron Mallett of Olympia, whose COM
mission has expired.
With the close of the Washington
State college year only a few days
distant the faculty Is turning it's at
tention toward the summer session,
which will commence June Is and con-
tinue for six weeks.
The actual value of operating rail-
roal property in the state is laid at
1891, 121 ,083 for taxation purposes this
year, the tax commissions announced
Monday, representing slight increase
over last years figure which were
1888, 540,432.
The state land office lost $31,211 up
to October 81, 1913, through failure to
collect rentals due on agricultural and
grazing leases. principally in eastern
Washington, the bureau of inspection
states in recent report.
G. A. r. veterans unveiled a monu-
ment Decoration day on! the court
house grounds at Colfax.F Over 5000
attended the dedication. The memo
rial is an impressive shaft surmount-
ed by figure of soldier.
The Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul
railway created two divisions out
of the Columbia division, effective on
June l. That part of the Columbia
division east of Maiden will be de-
tached from the present Columbia d.
vision and will be known as the Idaho
division, with headquarters in Spo-
kane
G. w. Conner a fireman, who has
just returned to Seattle from a trap
: ping trip Of several months to Mount
Rainier, was Mortified to learn that
} his body had been found drowned near
: Bremerton last January, buried by his
, comrades of the Spanish American
, war, and his estate distributed by the
: court.
Lister Denies Extra Session.
Olympia-Governo Lister Monday
denied the request Of cities Of the
third class for special session Of the
legislature to help them out OF finan-
cial difficulties. The governors de-
cision with Attorney General w.. "