Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-10-08
WASHINGTON News NOTES
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
wa,luia Matron Kills Self.

OLYMPIA-There was 25 per
fires during 1920. according to the
state forester.
Tekoa Telephone System Sold.
TEkOA.--W. M. Anderson, who has
operated the Tekoa telephone ex-
change for eight years, recently dis
posed of the entire system to f. II.
Cookingham of Spokane
Buys Farm Near Pullman.
PULLMAN.-Reade M. Young, son
OF H. J. Young, pioneer Pullman
farmer, has purchased the William
Chambers farm, 10 miles west OF
Pullman. for $3.50 an acre.
Snow Nantes Table Mountain.
WAI.I4A WALLA-Snow is drifted
to a depth of several feet on Table
Rock mountain, one of the earliest
dates in years for such heavy fall
in the Blue mountains.
Educators Will Meet Oct. 27.
YAKIMA. -Superintenden A. c.
Davis, head OF city schools and pres
ident of the Washington Educational
Association, says the meeting of the
organization will be held here begin
ming October 81
Divorce Causes Suicide.
SEATTLE. = Disconsolate because
his wife had instituted divorce pro-
ceedings and was seeking the perma.
nent custody of their two children,
s. Weaver Scott, an expressman, age
3S, ended his life here.
Loan Associations Grow.
OILY MPlA.-Assets of the building
and loan associations in the state
have increased 80 per cent this year
over those of year ago, which in
turn was an increase of 80 per cent
over the previous year.
Wins $3.50 Penman Prize
WALLA WALLA.-Miss Effie King
has received notice that she has won
the second prize of $3.50 in the Am
ercan Penmanship contest for teach
ers and the supervisors OF penman-
ship. The check was enclosed
Doctors Auto. Kills Woman.
ANACORTES. = Mrs. Wheeler
Brown, who has been prominent here
in Salvation Army work, recently was
killed when she was struck by an
automobile driven by local phys
ician who was rushing to a hospital
Stock Show Prizes.
Cash prizes of more than SIS 900
with additional prizes of trophy cups
and ribbons, constitute the list of
awards to be offered at the second
annual Western Royal Live Stock
show to be held at the Spokane
union stock wards November l to 5.
Killed by Wind Storm.
PULLMAN.-Mrs Lille L. Nichol-
son, age 36, wife of Frank Nicholson,
and their 13-year-old son, Dennis,
were killed recently when cook
house was blown over directly onto
the bed in a tent in which they were
sleeping.
Washington's Population.
OF Washington's 1920 population of
l,356,316 as announced by the census
bureau, 722,572 are natives of other
states, Minnesota's contribution OF
62,011 leading all the others.
Washington's native-born popula-
tion this year totals 311,970 as COM
pared with 262.694 in 1910.
Two Hunters Slain in Woods.
OLYMPIA.-Leo Murphy, 23, Kings.
ton, Wash, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting in the woods
seven miles from Olympia by X. G..
Preston, member of the party. G..
Gregg of Sultan, Wash, railway
tie contractor, died at Snohomish,
after being accidentally shot in the
thigh by his own rifle while hunting
near Meadow Lake.
Closes Two Factories.
SEATTLE.-Red in the price
of canned milk and sharp curtailment
of production. are announced by the
Carnation Milk Products company
Factories at Forest Grove, Ore, and
Kent, Wash. will be permanently
closed, and other equipment given
over largely to butter making, the
announcement said Partial collapse
of European buying and recently In
creased freight rates are given by
the company as the reason for cur.
tailment of canned milk manufacture.
Pend Oreille Fair Success.