Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-05-28
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
State Treasury, $9,43o,6e2.

State Treasury, $e,43o,6s2.
OLYMPIA-The balance in the state
treasury May "a totaled $9,430,692
Meat Prices Reduced
SPOKANE.-Fresh beef and pork
prices are due to decline this week,
retailers predict.
White Girl WEEDS Jap.
YAK1MA.-H. Nishitant, japanese,
and Pearl Dubrey, white, both of Sc
attic, were married here recently.
Dairymen to Meet June IS.
SPOKANE. -Preparations are be.
ing made by Inland Empire dairy pro-
ducers for mass meeting at the city
hall at | p. M. June Is.
Small Apple Crop.
YAKIMA-C. l.. Robinson district
horticultural inspector. after tour
of the lower valley, declares the ap-
pie crop harder hit by frost than was
anticipated
Summer Session, Cheney.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, CHE
NEY.-The sixteenth annual summer
session of this institution will open
May 81 as the fourth regular quarter
of the 1919-1920 school year.
Students Work on Campus.
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE.
PULLMAN.-Campus day gangs fell
in for work promptly at O'Clock
Friday morning and tore into the
jobs of improving the campus.
One of TripIets Dies.
YAkIMA.-Lyle Lex, the only boy
in the triplets born recently to Mrs.
.. r. Busey, died suddenly May %.
though apparently in good health. The
two girls are reported doing we'll
oroviIIe's New cannery Plant.
OROVILLE. = Ground has been
broken here for new cannery plant
which will be ready for operation by
August L. The enterprise was largely
financed by the business men of Orc
VILE
Decrease in Diaries.
fAkIMA.-D. C. Dillworth and O.
Z. Van Houton, state dairy inspectors
report great decrease in the number
OF dairies and an increase in dis
satisfaction with the business, due to
high prices of feed
Madge Sawyer Is Sane.
SEATTLE.-Madge Anna SAWYER,
Il, charged with second degree mur-
der in connection with the shooting
OF her husband, Howard |. SAWYER.
mere May 10, is sane, in the opinion
OF number of states alienists who
examined her.
Last of Wenatchee Apples.
WENATCHEE.-The last carload of
the 1919 apple crop was shipped out of
Wenatchee May %, being consigned
to a New York dealer. This was the
l2,15Sth car of apples for the season.
This shows a gain of 1892 cars over
the previous year.
Pend Orelle County Roads.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for road
and bridge construction in Pend
Oreille county for 1920 will total about
S245,O0O. There is no state road work
lnder construction in this county. the
state highway being completed to
Newport as far as it has been estab-
ished by the legislature.
Auto Kills Woman.
WENATCHEE. - Blinded by the
glare of a big automobile whose
river neglected to use a DINNER
which the state law requires, w. II.
5rutchfield of East Wenatchee ran
nto Mrs. Esther Anderson, aged 33.
ormerly of Portland, Ore, on North
Nenatchee avenue recently. killing
Ter almost instantly.
Wins $40 in Poster Contest.
SEATTLE. =" Welcome. camners,
The cool and fragrant forests of Wash
ngton invite you. Leave no fire to
iestroy their grandeur
For these Is words, which took
lrst prize in the Natural Parks Asso- |
,iation forest protection poster mes.
age contest, Mrs. ]. M. Chase of
Nalla Walla will receive 500.
Train Hits Auto.
CHEWELAH.-As a result of at |
empting to cross in front of a |
outbound passenger train here Fri |
lay, Walter Snodgrass, farmer liv-
ng in this vicinity, died in the hospital |
us wife and boy aged 7 are suffer
ng painful injuries and his 2-year-old
irl is dead