Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-06-24
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Mrs Edith f.. Gattis, Seattle, was
elected grand matron of the Eastern
Star ut the recent meeting at Spokane.
Next Convention to Spokane.
Spokane will have the
1922 meeting OF the Washington State
Federation of Women's Clubs.
$4,000 Cars Of Fruit.
The Wenatchee district will pro
duce $4,000 cars of apples and other
fruits in 1921, as against 9400 last
year
Burned to Death
TACOMA.-Mrs. Mary Kinkels, age
26, was burned to death in her home
near here. Her clothing and bed
We're saturated with kerosene
Two Dead in Bus Crash
SEATTLE.--Three soldiers were
killed and eleven others seriously in
jured when motor bus ran into "A
stone wall at the entrance to Camp
Lewis, Wash, recently.
Gardner in Pen
TACOMA.-Roy Gardner, train rob-
Der, who sensationally escaped from
his guards at Castle Rock June IL
while EN- route from San Francisco to
the federal prison at Mcneil island,
near here. heard the prison doors
close behind him June II.
Airplane Dives Into Lake
TACOMA.-Plunged into American
lake near here when their airplane
dived to the bottom, two Camp Lewis
| soldiers extricated themselves from
the wreckage Is feet below the sur
| face Of the water and made the shore
three-quarters of an hour later UNI
! hurt
| Uniontown Stock Show
UNCOMFORTABLE second annual
stock show by the breeders, farmers
and Uniontown citizens held last
week was splendid showing OF
horses and cattle. Washington State
college contributed to the success of
| the show with fine exhibit in the
ShOrthorn classes, but Uniontown
took the grand championship OF the
cattle exhibit with the Shorthorn bull
exhibited by Carl Breif
2. and A. N. Grand Officers
SACRAMENTO grand Officers
elected at the 64th annual communi-
cation of the grand lodge. Free and
Accepted Masons of Washington, fol.
low:
John Clifford. Spokane, grand mas
ter; James Mccormick. Tacoma, dep
uty grand master; T. w. Holman
Port Townsend, senior grand warden;
II. c. McCroskey, Jr., Garfield, junior
grand warden; Horace w. Tyler, Ia
coma, reelected, grand secretary
Second Best Jersey in U. S.
ELI4ENSBURG Beatrice Lady
Beulah, "a purebred Jersey COW owned
best Jersey Oh her age, between four
and five years, in the entire state
and the second best in the United
States, according to the June issue
Of the Jersey Bulletin, the official
paper of the Jersey breeders. The
cow was beaten by Jersey in Maine
Beatrice's Lady Beulah produced
1886 pounds of butter fat while under
test for only % days last March
The winning COW produced 92.O6 lbs
Tax Commission Named
OLYMPIA.-Our Governor ha
made public his appointments to tn,
commission authorized by the 1872
| npi sInt1 To, 10
vey of taxation, for the expense o
which the legislature appropriate,
$4,000
They are: ID. w. Twohy, Spokane
Alex. Poison, Hoquiam; George M
Elliott, Tacoma; Nathan Ekstein, Sc
} attic; Frank d. Oakley. Tacoma
Robert H. Harlin. Seattle; w. W
Robertson. Yakima; Peter McGregol
Hooper; DIR. S. B. l.. Penrose, Wall
Walla.
Plan Fruit Show in Seattle.
SEATTLE.-Enlargem of tn
program of the Pacific Coast Produt
: er's association, organized here II
Gently to enable ranchers controllin
an annual output of 57,O0O,0OO boxe
, OF fruit to take advantage OF waite
transportation in the development O
foreign markets, to include the 70
nation of an export company to har
die Pacific coast fruits and the hole
ing OF an annual fruit show, was al
nounced at the closing meeting of tn
delegates representing Washington
! California and Oregon fruit grower.
organizations here.
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