Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-11-11

ALA ALLA. -DulluinS is on
the increase in Walla Walla.
Grain Men Organize.
SACRAMENTO Spokane Grain
Mems Association, which is expected
to result in a Spokane grain exchange.
was organized recently with Phil
Benedict of Kerr-Gifford & Co, as it's
first president.
OroviIle Bank Robbed.
OROVILLE.-At 1920 a. m. We'd
nesday a lone, unmasked bandit held
up Cashier f. C. Tullar of the Bank
of Oroville at the point of a gun, took
$1,947 and escaped.
Hardware Men Meet Jan. II.
The annual convention of the Pa
cific Northwest Hardware and Imple-
ment Association will be held at
Spokane January II, Is, 10 and 20,
Secretary L. E. Lucas
Annapolis Cadets Named.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Alfred Link
Omak. Wash, was appointed first al
ternate midshipman to the United
States naval academy. Annapolis, by
Senator Poindexter. Neil Grin Ca
han of Valleyford. Spokane county
was named second alternate.
Plan Pioneers Celebration.
George w. Case of st. John. presi
dent of the Whitman County Pioneel
Association, fayOrs a proper celebra
ton of the semi-centennial anniver
sary of the organization of the count.
on November 29. 1t is planned tt
make the day a real get-together o
pioneers.
Stock Show a Success.
SPOKANE. = The third Western
Royal Live Stock Show closed Nc
vember 2 after a weeks exhibition.
was a huge success. J. Houston Nj
president.
Gas Tax Brings $279, 909.
OLYMPIA, Wash.-The state tax O
one cent a gallon on gasoline ha
yielded $279,9O to the state %treasur
in the three months that the tax lay
has been in effect.
Ole Hanson Buys $500, 1000 Land.
LOS ANGELES.-The sale of, 25
acres of land in the southern part O
Los Angeles city to Ole Hanson, form
er mayor OF Seattle, Wash, for a re
ported consideration of 100000, is al
nounced. @
$492,837 Paid for Accidents.
OLYMPIA.-There we're 4,0O1 MOI
fatal accidents in the lumber industr
in the state of Washington during tn
year ended October 1, of which 2,17
were in logging operations and the re
mainder in sawmills. A total of $492
S37 was paid out in the compensate
for injuries resulting from the acc
dents under the state industrial il
surance act.
Unique School at Prison.
WALLA WALLA.-One of the mos
unique schools in the state, the nigh
school at the penitentiary, has min
teachers, all convicts and all colleg
men, and Isl students. Attendant
is voluntary and the men have ST
dent government, no guard being wit
them. Infractions of rules bar tn
violator from further attendance.
Workers in the State.
- i -, e. =.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-According
the, returns of the 14th census, thel
were 57S,470 persons 10 years of as
and over in Washington engaged
gainful occupations i'll 1920, corrstitu
ing 42.6 per cent of the total popul
tion of the state 5 6 ,621 and 81
per cent of the population 10 years
age and over.
OF the gainful workers of Was
ington in 1920, 4S5,615. or S3.9 p
cent, were males and 1885,. or liz
per cent, were females. Male gal
full workers constituted 500 per ce
of all males 10 years Of age and ov
in 1920. as against s2.4 per ent
1910, while the female gainful wol
ers constituted 1871 per cent of all
males 10 years of age and over
1920, as against ia per cent in 10.
Of the gainful workers of Washir
ton in 1920 131 ,514, or 22.7 per ce
were engaged in agriculture, forest
. and animal ~husbandry; 1927, or
per cent, in extraction of minera,
179, 5S1, or 81 per cent, in manuf
turing and mechanical industries;
416, or 80 per cent, in transportatio
$685.. or 11.6 per cent, in trade, !
962, or % per cent, in public servit
36.423, or 6.3 per cent, in profession
services; 47.011, or 81 per cent,
domestic and personal service, a
41,351, or IL per cent, in clerical
equations.
RECENT DEATHS.
COLVILLE.-Newton Thomas,
76, of Meyers Falls, q Stevens coul