Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-11-19
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This state
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Pioneer OF Dayton Dies.
DAYTON--Samuel p. English, age
"a, pioneer of Columbia county,
died Saturday.
Coast Single Mills Close.
SEATTLE--Eighty- per cent of
the shingle mills OF the Pacific coast
have closed down.
Mrs. e. J. eankson Succumbs.
SPOKANE Elizabeth j. Bankson,
age SO. who came to Spokane county
in 1888, died Sunday.
Mrs. Mary r. Hall Succumbs.
WALLA WALLA.-Mrs. Mary F.
Hall. age 20, pioneer of the north
west, died here recently of dropsy.
Alex Green Dies.
SPOKANE.--Alex Green, advertis-
ing manager of the Crescent store,
operation on his head.
School House at Daisy Burns.
DAISY-The Daisy school house
and contents were burned recently.
The cause is unknown. The loss is
estimated at about $4,000, partially
insured.
Teachers Body Washed Up.
SEATTLE.-The body of II. w. f.
Killan, former Seattle high school
teacher, who disappeared from his
ranch near Birmingham on October
%. was found Monday washed up on
the beach at the Tulalip Indian res
ervation on Puget Sound
Yakima Hops Worth ST 800, o0o-
YAKIMA = Yakima valleys 1920
mop crop is worth about $l,0S0 900 to
growers, according to Guy Grafton, a
pioneer hop man, who reports that the
total yield is between %, 900 and $4,000
bales and that the average contract
price was about 10 cents a pound,
though dealers are now contra citing
for as much as rs cents pound
State Office Building, Seattle.
SEATTLE.-SeattIe branch offices
centrated in one office building to be
erected for the state at Fourth avenue
and Bell street The state board of
| control has contracted for the erection
OF four-story office building, which
| it will lease for five years. The build
| ing will cost about $780, 200. In addi-
| ton to offices for ten or twelve state
I do, n,.tn h,
| building will contain offices and re.
ception rooms for the use OF the gov
| ernor and an auditorium for public
hearings.
| Gov. Harris Lead Nearly 10000.
Governor Louis F.. Harris official
plurality over Robert Bridges will
approximate 10000, on the face OF
returns compiled up to November IA
that are believed to represent fully
80 per cent OF the total vote.
The governor appears to have car
ried every county in the state but
two, Franklin and Kitsap, where the
vote is SO close that final returns
may give him a clean sweep of all
the SO counties.
He has received SO per cent Of the
total vote for governor, which has
reached on the unofficial returns
$3.50, 402.
2-Year Budget, IS, 100000.
OLYMPIA.-Accordi to the bien
nial budget submitted to the state
board of control, it will require s6,3O1
765 to operate the charitable, reform
and penal institutions of the state dur
ing the next two years. The appro
priation for the 1922 biennium wa.
s4,349.973.
The board hlso announced that i
will be compelled to ask for a de
ficiency appropriation OF approx
mately $500 900 from the coming legis
lature to meet excess disbursements o
the current biennium.
The increased cost of maintenance
both as to material, foodstuffs an,
labor, has been such, the board eS
planned as to render the appropria
ton insufficient to support the inst
tutions
OF the total amount the board est
mates will be required the coming tw
years $4,392,365 represents cost O
operation OF current expense; $21S,2O
repairs and requirements, and S1,643
300 capital OUTLAWS which include neN
buildings.
The last appropriation as regard
these items was as follows:
Operating expense, 1888 $40; r,
pairs and requirements, $149 900, an
capital OUTLAWS, 1911 $50
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