The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-07-30
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings In This state
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

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Whitman County Fair.
Dates for the Whitman county fair
are September 15. 16 and II, 1920.
kittitas School Head Quits.
ELLENSBURG.- County School Su-
perintendent s. A. Bartlett has re-
signed. effective August /, and plans
to operate chicken ranch.
Seattle Carfare Raised.
SEATTLE. = Seattle car patrons
all cars of the municipal street rail-
now pay 6 IA and 10 cent fares on
way.
Plan eiooded Stock Sale.
DAVENPORT - A. Combination
sale of purebred live stock will be
held at Harrington October A, s and
6 by the Lincoln County Livestock
Association.
Combine Chain Tears Leg OF.
WlALLA WALLA.--William Shines
foot was recently caught in a chain
on combine ON s. d. Humans
ranch on Eureka flat and his right
leg was torn off.
Pea Crop to Yield 100000.
The yield from the pea crop at Fair.
field this year is estimated at 15
bushels to the acre. About 10000
acres are under cultivation. The
growers. will realize from $500, 900 to
500. 900.
Last Days to Register.
August "a is the last day on which
registration books will be open Tor the
September IA primary. October II is
the last day on which registration
books will be open for November 2
general election.
Fire 0arkens City.
ILWACO.-This town faces the
probability of being without light,
power or water for an indefinite
period as the result of a recent fire
that destroyed the plant of the North
Shore Light & Power company. The
cause OF the fire is unknown.
Delays Advance In carfare.
SEATTLE-The Municipal Street
Railway system will continue on 5.
cent fare for another week, owing to
the inability of the manufacturer to
supply 100000 tokens necessary tc
put the 6A-cent fare in operation.
Seize Big Whisky Still.
SPOKANE.-Deputy sheriffs recent
ly raided a big still three miles south
west of Marshall, which was said t.
be turning out about Is gallons Of
liquor daily. w. M. Polio and Ton
Hughes, who are accused of being the
owners of the still, are held in the
county Jail.
| Include Yakima in Probe.
| SEATTLE.-Membe of the hous,
of representatives committee ON i'm
migration and naturalization schedul
ed to hold hearings on the Japanese
immigration question here and at Ia
coma will extend their inquiry to in
| CIuuC LILO 0hlAAd valley.
Send Magazines to Camps, Mines.
SPOKANE.-A new movement to
ward establishing better fellow
ship between the city and the work
or in the forests and the mines hal
been undertaken by the SPOKANE
center, Constitutional Government
league, in collecting and distributin.
magazines.
Seattle Jitneys Win Point.
SEATTLE.-Hearing on the appli
cation Of the Seattle jitney driver
for a permanent Injunction to pre-
vent the city from ordering jitne,
buses off the streets under the term
of a recent ordinance has been con
tinued indefinitely by Superior Judg
Boyd Tallman.
Want Civil Engineers Licensed.
YAKIMA.-State representatives o
the American Association of Eng
neers, in session here recently, will
ask the legislature to pass bill re
quiring engineers to be examined an,
licensed in order to work in the state
They asserted that such action woul'
prevent number of costly accident
and delays in work due to inefficien
engineering.
Yakima Ships 1000 Cars Of Hay.
| YAKIMA.-Sixteen hundred cars Q
Yakima valleys bumper 1920 hay GRO
estimated at $4,000 cars, have alread
been shipped. During last week 10
cars were forwarded in addition t
four Of potatoes, which are now goin
in REFERS and will be sold at $3.50
ton. Twenty-eight cars of lambs lei
for the Chicago market, the forerur
: ner of 1000 which will be sent cas-
| this year.
Census of Towns Decrease.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-The pop,
lation of Douglas county, accordin
to census figures is 1892, an increas
of 165, or 1-S per cent.
Klickitat county, 926S, decreas
of 912, or 9 per cent.