Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-08-27
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Whitman County Census.

Whitman County Census.
WASHINGTON.-The population of
Whitman county is 1928.
Ansei Shaw browns.
SPOKANE.-Ansel Shaw Of Green
acres, age 81, was drowned Saturday
in the Spokane river. He took cramps
Gasoline Company Lifts Ban.
SEATTLE-Al restrictions on the
sale of gasoline to the public were
removed by the gasoline companies
here.
Seattle to Spend $19,339.11.
SEATTLE.-Cost of city govern
ment and operation of municipal ia
cilities in Seattle in 1921 will be $751;
1851.
Machias Store Robbed.
EVERETT.-The grocery store and
postoffice at Machias, small town
near here, was recently robbed OF
$500 in cash and securities.
AGED Woman Suicides.
YAKIMA.-Despondent over APP
preaching blindness Mrs. Evelina A.
Wickwine, age 81, committed suicide
recently by drowning herself
Start Picking Hops Soon.
YAKIMA.-McNeff brothers, largest
growers of Yakima hops, will start
harvesting their boomer crop of hops
on their 300-acre farm September /.
Fire Fighter Killed.
HUNTERS.-Jay l.. Dana, aged SO,
fighting forest fire recently on Mon
ahan hill, west of Hunters, was struck
by falling tree and his back broken.
Palouse Crops Big.
PALOUSE-The Palouse harvest is
now well under way and it is evident
that the output will be considerably
above the average of the last four
years and perhaps close to the 10
year average.
Fruit Growers Meet.
WENATCHEE.-T Aug. &C.
is Growers day, it has become fixed
event in the Wenatchee valley, when
fruit growers from all over this part
of the state assemble to visit 1e,uon'
stration orchards where new methods
of cultivation, tillage, pruning, ferti
lization and irrigation are being tried
out.
Break Up Drug Evil.
Tacoma-The Washington State
Pharmaceutical association recently
adopted resolution asking the legis
lature to make the illegal sale or pos
session of habitforming drugs {
felony, punishable by penitentiary
term. The association also proposes
that druggists who sell such drugs
| illegally be deprived of their licenses
for 10 years in addition to liability
under the proposed felony law.
Home Brewers Hit.
TACOMA.-"Home brewers here
| who were grinning over the announce
ment of District Attorney Robert F
Saunders in Seattle that search war
rants will not be issued to fedora
| officers to search homes where bever
| ages are made solely for home con
| sumption. had the wind taken out o
their sails here by City Attorne.
Charles Dennis.
1.-The federal officers can permit al
the home brewing they DESIRE" MI
Dennis said, but the bone dry Law
of Washington will be enforced b.
state and county officials here. N
one will be permitted to manufactur
or possess liquor of any kind so ia
as the law can be enforced"
Yakima Crops Rich.
YAKIMA-Though the Yakima va
ley crop of soft fruits, because c
the extreme winter cold, is almost
total failure, other crops are in S
much better condition than they wer
year ago that indications are ther
will be an increase of about 20 pc
cent in the total tonnage shippe
from the valley and gain of at leas
40 per cent in the shipments of graf
and alfalfa. Fruits, with the excel
ton of the cherries, peaches and peal
all of which were hit by the winte
frosts, will be of higher quality tina
ever before The same is true of til
grain and alfalfa, which last year CO..
tanned a high percentage of cheat bl
this year is almost entirely FIRE
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