Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-10-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS

An interesting program has been
prepared for the annual convention of
the Washington Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION, to be held in North Yakima,
October 10, IA and IS.
Recently at Okanogan Simon Cam
eron Sprowl, son of j. H. Sprowl, one
of the pioneers of Pogue prairie, died
from the effects Of a gunshot acct
dentally inflicted upon himself.
Peter Jaquot, for Is years a sue
cessful farmer in the Horse Heaven
country, has been elected to assist M.
A. Mccall in dry land investigations
and demonstrations in the Big Bend
country.
Governor Lister has issued a requi
sition upon the governor of Oregon for
the extradition of George M. Martin,
under arrest at Portland, who is
charged with robbing the Spokane
State bank of $500 August %.
Ching Cow, a Portland Chinese, who,
United States officers say was the gun
man who killed Lum Kong, "a witness
in the Chinese smuggling trial against
former immigration Interpreter Frank
Tape, was found dead in a hotel in the
oriental quarter of Seattle, Sunday.
For the purpose of doing away with
ruinous competition, eliminating n
possibilities of cutting" the market and
to form a more cooperative organiza-
ton between fruit distributors and
fruit exchanges, 35 prominent eastern
Washington orchardists and commits
sion men met in Seattle Saturday and
signed an agreement.
A report of the results of the con.
tinued injections of tuberculin upon
tubercular cattle, which has just been
published in bulletin form by the state
experiment station, covers a wide
range of Investigations conducted al
the station farm. The bulletin was
prepared by DR.. S. B. Nelson, head O
the veterinary department at the STATE
:, college. Write for copy.
: Representative Albert Johnson ha'
been notified by the bureau OF indial
affairs that the long standing CLAIM
of Chinook and other Indians of tn
lower Columbia district, amounting t
y about $4,000, is about to be paid. Cor
gress on August "a, 1912, authorize
y payment and the lists were all mad
/ up when action was suspended await
ing a decision of the comptroller G
s. the treasury.
The2h-year-old daughter of Mr.. an
Mrs. Fred Vowel, farmers, who lv
N near Kennedy Ford, about six mile
lie east of Palouse City, Saturday had tn
entire top of her head blown off by tn
at accidental discharge of a 44-70 riff
s. Death was instantaneous. The lit
II, girl, with a brother, 10 years old, wa
e, playing in an upstairs room, wheI
IT. the rifle was kept. The mother, hea
ing the shot, rushed upstairs an
&c. found the little one lying dead, she
n through the brain. Just how the a
IS cident occurred is not known.
Supervising Engineer G. H. Swiga
re of the United States reclamation ser
II ice, upon his return to North Yakin
ny from a survey of the Palouse irrigatit
project with state and government co
sulting engineers, said that the Lar
under the proposed project o
al make a splendid stock country, Gre
IT diversity of crops could be raised, b
or the land would be used mostly I
in forage crops, such as alfalfa n col
nc he said. In his opinion, the proJe'
if irrigated, would support 1900 fal
I'd lilies besides those in small towns,