Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-11-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The second fire in the Ellensburg
lumber yards Saturday caused loss
of $4,000.
Attorneys Of Garfield, Columbia and
Asotin counties drew up resolutions
in memory of the late Judge Goldman.
The body of Frank Hedger, who was
drowned in the Yakima river Nov. Is,
was found Sunday morning near Pros
ser.
William D. Jones died at Spokane
Saturday, aged rs. He was among the
early settlers of Asotin county 80
years ago.
More cutover timber land has been
sold in the vicinity of Springdale dur
ing the last few months than at any
previous time.
One hundred and sixteen pens were
assigned for the third annual Pullman
hog show held Friday and Saturday of
this week at Pullman.
The highest price for wheat this
season was paid Saturday at Creston,
when Arthur French sold some mar
quis wheat for SLIP per bushel.
Proceedings in bankruptcy against
D. Soundheim, proprietor of the Col
den Rule stores over the northwest,
occurred Saturday at North Yakima.
The jury that tried William Davis
on charge of having murdered Harry
Montgomery, grocer at Tacoma, in
September, returned verdict Of not
guilty.
SCATTERING all previous attendance
records and beating the total 1913 fig
ures by $4,000 the Seventh National
Apple show passed into history last
week at Spokane.
Shot through the heart and with six
cuts on his head, evidently made by
Ratchet, the body Of Victor Lenzi,
an Italian farmer on the Yakima In
dian reservation, was found Sunday.
Four hundred hunters, formed in the
segment of circle stretching nearly
from Burbank to Two Rivers, took
part in the second big rabbit drive of
the season at Burbank Sunday, kill
ing 1000 rabbits.
The destruction Of herd of 101
pedigreed Holstein cattle, the first
reported in this state as suffering
from the hoof and mouth disease, took
place Saturday at Spokane under fed
eral and state supervision.
Oil excitement became intense al
Olympia with the announcement o.
the Crescent camp that it's we'll neal
Grand Mound, Thurston county, start
ed nearly year ago, would be pub
Ideally uncapped Tuesday and woult
show oil.
An architect employed by the Uni
versity of Washington has condemned
the campus cafeteria building, which
was the California state building a
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition
in 1909. and the education building
also relic of the fair,
Spokane employment agents, VIII
were put out of business in the recen
election by initiative amendment, hav
decided to test the legal aspects o
, tn law
The supreme court having denie
, the application of the public servic
commission for rehearing In the We
ter case of the city Of North Yakim
against the Pacific Power & Light Co
Attorney l. P. Englehart announces 70
!, the company that plans for improve
r ment of service here will be filed wit
, the commission without delay. Thes
are to include plans for replacemen
Of wooden mains with iron and di
continuance of the low reservoir.
Thomas Carstens, head of the Car
tens Packing Co., of Tacoma and s.
= attic, one of the largest on the coas
has closed deal whereby his con
pany purchases the plant and BUS
ness of the Empire Packing Co.
East Broadway and Regal. The cor
o ing of this large firm into the Spokar
packing field indicates the GROWN
9 Importance of Spokane as live stoe
center.
!, The manufacture of beet sugar, 81
= ploying from $500 to 5000 acres
- Spokane county and adjoining sc
. lions, returning $250.00o to the farl
). ers and producing over 100000
= new wealth annually, will be added
- the Inland Empires industries ne
n year, providing contracts now bell
+ signed throughout the farming d
" trict tributary to Spokane guarant
the necessary acreage.
10 Apple shipments out Of the We
% atchee district, proper, the Wenatch
c, valley and the new district form
Is north of that city by the opening
the Great Northern branch betwe
a, that city and Oroville will all bre
NJ the records of 1913. The fruit sh
m ments Of 1918 totaled 4,100 cars; til
= of the year 1912 1900 cars. The p
n diction Is freely made in Wenatch
40 by those in close touch with the apl
movement that the season OF II
would see q grand total of $500 CT
a shipped out Of the territory nam
:, o. above.