Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-07-01

SEA l-lLE.-SedttloS munlClpal rail-
way made a net profit of $39,4O3 dur.
ing May.
Poll Tax Receipts Grow.
| OLYMPIA-A total of 81, 204, 47S has
been turned into the state Golfers from
the funds collected under the poll tax
law.
Fisher Quits State Job.
OLYMPIA.-Resign of Garrett
Fisher, state purchasing agent. is an.
nounced.
| Burned Starting Her Fire.
ELMA.-Mrs. Frank Smith was
burned to death at her home near
here recently. 1t is believed she start.
ed a fire with kerosene.
Lawyers to Meet In Seattle.
| SEATTLE.-The annual convention
of the Washington State Bar Associa
ton will be held in Olympia July 81
| % and 90.
Police State Highways.
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Major
Louis NJ. Lang as organizer and man
ager Of the state highway traffic pc
lice force. created by the last legis
lature to enforce automobile regula
| tons, is announced.
Pioneers at Picnic.
DAVENPORT.-Der day at the
Lincoln-Adams county pioneer picnic
closed the three-day program June
20 with an attendance of close tc
5000 The picnic association elected
w. G. Danekas, Ritzville president.
Pardon Board Frees SO.
WALA WALLA.-The state board
| of pardons at its recent session acted
| on 113 cases. All convicts whose
minimum terms would have expired
by September l were eligible. Sixty
nine cases were acted on favorably
Coffman Heads G. A. R.
| OLYMPIA.-Colonel j. III. Coffmar
of Tacoma was recently elected com
mander of the Grand Army of the
Republic, department of Washington
and Alaska. Mrs. Nellie c. Black
burn of Everett was chosen depart
ment president of the Ladies of the
| G. A. r.
| G. W. Case Heads Pioneers.
PULLMAN.-Two hundred pioneers
all of whom came to Whitman county
prior to 1888, attended the annual pic
mic, of the Whitman County Pioneers
association here George W. Case OF
st. John was elected president and
| the pioneers voted to hold the annual
picnic next year at st. John.
War Hero Buried.
| PULLMAN.-Busin was discon
tinued for an hour Saturday while
hundreds of citizens of Pullman and
other Inland Empire towns paid fina
tribute to the memory of Lieutenant
Charles Boyd Maynard, who made the
supreme sacrifice while leading q
company of United States marines ir
an attack on Bouresche (Aisne). jus
outside of Belleau woods. The mill
tary funeral was the largest in Pull
mans history.
Columbia Bridge Assured.
WALLA WALLA.-Trust of tn,
Benton-Franklin inter-county bridg,
have canvassed the subscriptions
finding that $3S4,00O has been raised
in actual subscriptions and bonafidt
! pledges. The additional $4,000 need
ed will be raised in Walla Walla
The bridge is to be built between
Pasco and Kennewick over Columbis
river.
Identity cobeli as Bank Bandit.
| YAKIMA. Clarence Ostrum, Add,
state bank cashier, and Mrs. Ostrun
have identified John Cobell, alias jim
Enright, handsome half-breed Black
foot Indian, as one of the trio tina
held up the Addy state bank the nigh
of June 10 and robbed the vault o
$1,000, after waiting several hours TO-
the time lock to open.
State suspends Rail Increase.
| OLYMP1A.--1n a formal order al
rected to all railroads doing bust
ness In this state, the state depart
| lucul VI puuIlC WOIh6 Sunpcuucs
for 80 days. effective July 1. en-
forcement of the Portland preferen
tial rates of 10 per cent on shipment
from Washington territory south o
Snake river to the Coast, so far a
application Of the preferential apple
q s per cent increase of rates iron
points within this state over road
terminating on Puget sound.
RECENT DEATHS
ELLENSBURG. Mrs. Hanna
Crossgrove Taylor. age SS. She ha
been resident of Ellensburg sine
1888.
SPOkANE.--John @. Osborne, ag
Il. the first photographer in Spokan
Falls and resident OF this distric
for Al years.