Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-10-22
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Joseph S. Woodward Dies.

Joseph S. Woodward Dies.
SPOKANE.-Josep S. Woodward,
age Sc, who had resided at Wildwood
for the last "a years, dropped dead
Monday.
Beets High in Sweets.
YAKIMA-In making a test day $
run at the Utah-Idaho sugar beet
factory the plant turned out 2l44 bags
of sugar from TOO tons of beets ON
Thursday.
Hunters Bullet Kills Man.
BREMERTON-Wa Baldwin, SO,
was shot and killed. presumably by
a hunter recently while he was re-
turning to his home in Allyn, Wash,
from hunting trip.
choker Cable Kills Man.
, RENTON--Harry d. Allison. 80. a
stationary engineer employed at a
logging camp near here, was instant
ly killed Saturday when choker
cable, used in hauling logs. broke and
wrapped around his body.
r. S. Holland Is Found Dead
TACOMA.-T. S. Holland, former
president of the Holland-Cook Lumber
company, and lately lumber oper'
ator on Vashon Island, was found
dead Saturday in city park.
Heads Soldiers Home.
ORTING.-Captain II. w. North OF
Everett, past department commander
of the G. A. r. department of Wash
ington and Alaska, was recently ap
pointed commandant at the soldiers
home here by the state board of con
troll.
To Pave Prosser Streets.
PROSSER. The Yakima Paving
company was awarded the contrac
OF $4,000 for paving approximate,
three miles of Prossers streets at al
estimated cost Of $3.50 a square yard
Work is to be started this fall. thu
paving to be bitulithic.
Seattle Tries "Part Time"
Establishment of part time schools
for boys and girls Of school age VIII
are working, has been authorized b,
the Seattle school board. Classes will
be arranged so that each boy ant
: girl entitled to the school privileg
will attend four hours week
, suspends Telephone Boost.
OLYMPIA.-The public servic
, commission on its own motion ha
challenged the proposed increases /
telephone rates by the Oregon-Wasf
ington Telephone & Telegraph con
: pany, which recently filed TART
t putting such increases in effect.
: Drink Denatured Alcohol.
: NEWPORT. - Three lumberjack
!, Lambert McAbee, Jack Kern an
: Burns, were picked up in an III
conscious condition by local officer
the result of having partaken of d
natured alcohol Their bodies turne
|. almost black, and they were on til
n point of strangulation for hours.
y Toppenish Fire Loss $37 900.
YAKIMA. = Thirty-seven thousa1
y dollars, covered by insurance, is r
. ported in the destruction by fire
4 the hardware, implement and gra
;, establishment of the w. l.. Shear
company at Toppenish on Sunda
The fire is believed to have been |
cendiary.
e Roy Wolff Won't Hang.
II SACRAMENTO, Cal.--The senten
IS of death imposed on Roy Wolff, ag'
n II, for murder of Elmer Greer
Kern county, was committed Oct.
a by Governor William d. Stephens
life Imprisonment. Wolff was
have been hanged at San Qnent
prison October 20 VOLTS home
n. at Yakima.
O. Seattle Plans Apple Week.
= SEATTLE.-Plans are being la
here for observance of national APT
day, October 80, and the followi
> week as apple week, to encoura
Washingtonians to help eat the l
100000 boxes of apples produced
the state. The mayor has issued
proclamation calling upon all go
citizens to eat apples during the wet
The chamber of commerce has Sc
kilograms to commercial bod