Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-07-25
WASHINGTON news NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

me 1rnlt crop IN the Walla Wall;
/. district is unusually clean this year.
George Logan, graduate of tn,
Ritzville high school, has been ap
pointed lieutenant in the navy
Four hundred grangers of Yakim;
county Saturday attended the annua
grange picnic.
Ernest Mennett, farmer living ;
, miles east of Pullman, died Saturda,
from injuries in runaway accident
the day before.
AT Walla Walla the price of wood
is advancing, 16-inch fir selling at $12
a cord. With the advance in wood
more coal is being used
Standing timber on the Camp Lewis
reservation will be sold to the highest
bidder by the county commissioners
July 29. 1t is estimated that there are
100000 feet of timber or $4,000
cords.
A session of the county superinten-
dents conference was held at Cheney
recently. Superintendent from IL of
the eastern Washington counties were
in attendance, and number of visitors
| from distant counties.
The board of pardons recently grant
ed 40 paroles, including three to be
| transferred to other institutions, and
| recommending nine conditional par
dons in cases where minimum SEN
fences have not been completed.
II. A. Scullen, bee expert from Wash
ington State college, is visiting around
Prosser in an effort to determine the
cause of excessive mortality among
bees. Actual extinction of this indus
try is seriously threatened and sevaral
plans have been made to remedy the
situation.
Membership in the Washington State
Depositors Guaranty Fund, it has been
brought out at a meeting in Seattle re-
Gently of the commission administer
ing the state act, will be 1O3 if six
new applications are accepted This
will mean an increase of 80 per cent
over last year.
Efforts of Prosser business men to
expedite construction of the highline
extension of the Sunnyside canal have
called forth a letter from their con-
gresham in which he states that ii
Prosser and other towns on the high
line will get together and outline their
campaign he will be glad to work with
them.
Reports from Waneta, B. c., to Ket-
tie Falls state that a small motorboat
with two young men was capsized
near the mouth of the Pend Oreille
river and the men drowned Saturday.
Both were returned United States sol
diers, one the son of Nicholas Winners,
who conducts hardware store at
Trail, B. c., and the others name was
not learned
The sawmill of the Good-Hopkins
Lumber company of Spokane, on Small
creek, six miles west of Cusick, was
totally destroyed by fire recently. The
fire originated in the boiler room. The
plant had a capacity of 10000 feet
day and was cutting white pine The
loss is estimated at about $4,000 About
a million feet of white pine lumber
in the yards were saved.
Wheat Is Selling.
Lester Robinson's crop of 10000 |
bushels and George Dacres' crop of |
81. 900 bushels were sold Saturday at |
Walla Walla at slightly above 81 a
bushel The wheat is of good quality. |
Both lots are hybrid. The grain has
not all been delivered at warehouses.
Wheat buying is more of a gamble
this year than last, dealers state. This
year dealers grade wheat and pay full
price, taking a chance on the govern
nent graders changing the grading. If
l local man grades too low, he gains
On degrading, but if he grades too high
he loses. Last year dealers paid down
10 per cent of the price and waited on
he returns from the government in
'pectors before paying the remainder.
Heads Dental Association.
DR.. J. F. Tidball, Everett, at Seattle,
was chosen president of the
State Dental association,
which closed a siX-day convention.
It Seattle recently Other officers
elected at the meeting were DR.. Guy
Tacoma, vice president,
nd Drs. J. +. Argue, Tacoma, J. w.
Tacoma, H. E. Wright, Yak
ma members of the executive board.
he dental convention was held joint
y with that of the British Columbia
Dental association, which did not elect
Ulcers.
Spokane County Wage Scale.
Wage increases of approximately 30
ents per day over last year were de-
ided upon by the Spokane county
lreshermen and farmers when they
cid their third annual threshing and
age scale meeting Saturday at Wa.
erly. The scale announced includes
GARD.
hooking peas having 10 hours 81 No !