Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-03-05
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
SeIah Votes Water Bonds.

| system.
Ship 200 Cars Of Fruit Daily.
| Manufacturing last week, ac
cording to report made recently by
II. A. Glen, 211 cars of fruit rolled
from the valley, making the total
shipping this season, 15,211.
Seed Wheat Prices Drop.
WALLA WALLA.-Seed wheat
prices tumbled Monday, bart dropping
from $3.50 to SO. The demand for
wheat Is less as comparatively small
| amount of grain was frozen out
Interurban Hits Machine.
SEATTLE.-Albert Fleming, age 81,
and Mrs. Clara Fleming, his sister-in-
law, age so, were instantly killed when
an automobile in which they were
riding was struck by an interurban car
here.
Three in One Family Die.
COLFAX.-Pneumoni following in
fluenza took heavy toll within a week
from the family of Eli Harmon Ew-
ing, farmer eight miles east of Col
fax, who succumbed, following his
wife and daughter.
WaIIa WaIia Finances.
WALLA WALLA.-Not only did
Walla Walla county pay off $4,000 in
outstanding bonds last year. but it
closed the year with $109,123 cash on
hand. which was $37,234 better off
than it was the year before.
Will Have Paved Road.
Medical Lake will get paved high
way through town. Cheney roads will
get eight and one-half miles of ma
cadam and Freeman two miles this
year, as the result of resolutions
by Spokane county commissioners.
State Lost 624 Men in War.
SEATTLE.-Twelve out of every
1000 men who marched away to war
from Washington, did not return, &C.
cording to a summary Of war casu-
alties issued by the army recruiting
office here. The state sent 49,157
men to war OF these 624 were killed.
Marcus Division Renewed.
The Marcus division of the Great
Northern discontinued since April,
1918, was reestablished March /, with
headquarters at Marcus, according to
announcement by F. S. Elliott, gen.
eral superintendent of the Great
Northern
Stay Postmaster.
ENUMCLAW.- bandits recent
ly shot and killed Joseph c. Pahchich,
postmaster at Cumberland. near here
after an unsuccessful attempt to rob
the safe of the Cumberland postoffice
Four men are being held in the
King county Jail suspected of connec-
ton with the killing
Woman Teacher Found Dead.
SEATTLE.-The body of Miss Mary
Dever, age %, physical instructor at
the University of Washington, was re-
Gently found hanging form rafter in
the home here of f. H. Anderson,
where she was a house guest. Cir
indicated that Miss Dever
suicide.
Sells Farm at 5000 an Acre.
PALOUSE.-J. T. Allen, farmer and
dairyman, who lives half mile south
of town. recently sold his farm of $50
acres to Mrs. j. H. Grady and William
Meinig of this place. The considera-
ton was $500 an acre, or $4,000 The
purchasers paid an additional $4,000 |
for the live stock and farm implements
making the deal even 100000.
Buy 200 stockers.
TWlSP.-B. ]. Bate and Allen Wet |
sci, among the principal stockmen
Of the Methow valley. have returned |
with 400 head of stockers obtained in |
Spokane stockyards, bringing the |
total up to fully 1000 head of beef cat |
tie brought in from the outside since |
the first of this year by not more than |
a half dozen stockmen of this section. |
all of these cattle come from
NiOHldud anu are COnSlQeTeQ as |
fairly good grade of beef type
Despite phenomenally adverse
conditions, the wheat crop in
for 1919, measured in
bushels, was one of the largest in the
history of the state, and valued in
dollars it was incomparably the rich
est on record Estimates of the fed
eral government on the state crop
reached 40,100,00O mushels, which
,hecks closely with the figures of the
grain inspection department of the
state, based on sworn returns from
licensed warehouse men and millers.
The final estimate of l.. ID. Grove,
thief inspector. is 39,326,235 bushels.
The tremendous value of the crop
$, however, best evidenced by COM
'arison of the government estimates
IN the price at which il sells. The
ederal estimate is SS5,8i4,000, as
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