Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Inc GarIlelQ SCHOOLS opened Mon
day with full corps of 16 teachers.
The public schools of Republic
opened with an enrolment Of 253 pu.
pills.
The D. R. Sayres & Co.'S department
store at Dayton Is closing out its bust
ness.
The farmers of Mansfield have erect.
ed FIGURING mill with Is barrels a
day capacity.
The 18th annual Whitman county
fair will be held at Colfax, Wash. DC.
tober GIL. 1918.
The Hanford peach shipments to
date are estimated to bring in about
$4,000 to growers.
The entries in the Washington state
fair better babies contest are now
running close to 300.
Threshing operations have been
completed around Odessa. Yields were
the best for number Of years.
The first suit against the city for
damages resulting from the riots the
night Of July IS. was filed in Seattle
Saturday.
John Stevens, who has 80 acres
planted to navy beans ON the breaks
of the Snake river is harvesting big
crop this week.
The State college has notified the
of the state fair that a
demonstration train of six cars will
be sent there fair week.
Arrangements are under way to
make better" babies contest one of
the features at the Palouse harvest
fair, October /, 2, 3 and 4.
identifying of the Home Grounds"
was the subject of Professor W. L.
Thornber's address to the fruitgrowers
and ranchers living around Kenne
wick.
The Seattle school board has adopt.
ed a resolution, forbidding athletic
between grade or high school
students of Seattle and those of other
cities.
Whitman county has more work
horses than any other county in the
state. Yakima county has more stock
cattle than any other, 1905, Of which
5.459 are yearlings. King county has
the most milch sows, 1912.
The aggregate value Of personal
property in the state, as returned by
the various county boards of equali"a-
ton, is $155, 657, 759. an increase of 81
per cent over last years figures,
which were $149,973,181.
In the opinion of the superintendent
of schools diversified farming is the
remedy that must be applied to the
conditions shown by the 1918 school
census-a general loss of population
in the wheat raising counties of east
ern Washington.
Walla Walla farmers began selling
their wheat Saturday and by evening
close to 100000 bushels had changed
hands, the prices ranging from u
cents and up for club to 79h cents for
bluestem, this price being I. o. b. Wal
la Walla. The sale was caused by
slight stiffening in the market.
District Horticultural Inspector Oar.
lington at Wenatchee has been mott.
fled by the state office to dismiss his
four assistant inspectors. This action
Is taken in accordance with decision
recently rendered by Assistant Attor-
ney General Lyle, who held the law
does not permit employment OF assist
ants.
Washington Is becoming more Of a
state for stock and dairy cattle. Stock
cattle showed an increase from 1892
to 138.978, more than 20 per cent In q
year, while the number of yearlings
showed an even more significant In
crease. from 51,328 to $3.50. or 80
per cent gain. Mich cows increased
from 141,573 to 149,140.
The two days session of the presi-
Dental p0stmasters Of Washington
ended at Bremerton Saturday with the
election Of officers as follows: Presi-
dent, w. D. Slith, Ritzville; secretary
treasurer, Frank L. Stocking. Tacoma:
chairman Of the executive committee,
F. A. Kennett, Prosser. The 1914 con-
vention will be held at Prosser.
The state bureau of statistics Ia com.
pleting the first book in the series Of
booster literature provided under the
$25, 200 appropriation made by the last
This book deals In detail
with each county and with most Of the
cities and towns of the state. It con-
tains q large amount Of solid descrip-
tive matter, dealing with the character
- IoMA In ooch A}utv3cf TIC rh{oP In.