Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-01-28
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings In This state
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Given in 6rief items I0T
Busy Readers.
Noerenberg Is Elected.
PULLMAN-Ralph Noerenberg, act
ing editor of the State College Ever
green, was elected to fill the position
for the second semester.
Sell eo,s32 7. 3. Seals.
COLVILI4E.-The sale OF tubercu'
losis seals in Stevens county has
reached 9O,S32. 1t is estimated that
the total sales will pass the 100000
mark
Lindner Heads Coast Shippers.
SEATTLE.-C. l.. Lindner of Port
land was elected president of the Pa
cific Coast Shippers association at
the session of that body held here
recently.
Letters Threaten Death.
BELLINGHAM.-Four farmers Of
Mount Vernon, near here, have re-
ceived letters threatening them with
death unless they deposited sums of
$500 each in a designated letter box.
Yakima Engineer to Stay.
YAKIMA.-T. w. Mccartney, drain
age engineer, has turned down an OIL
fer from the Imperial irrigation dis
trict in the Imperial valley, California,
which offered him $4,000. and will con-
tinue as drainage engineer for this
county.
Engineers Meet March 26.
The state association of the Ameri-
can Association of Engineers will meet
in Spokane March &c. There are 500
members of the association in the
state and the cities that will be rep
resented at the state convention will
be Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Yakima,
Everett, Olympia, Aberdeen and Bel
lingham.
Yakima Contractors Set Wage Scale.
YAKIMA. - Contractors, master
builders, plumbers and subcontractors
announce that they have adopted a
wage scale to rule on all building work
with which they are concerned In the
city and which average between 10
| and IL per cent lower than present.
In some instances cut of 20 per
cent is made.
Seattle Port for Russ Trade.
LONDON.-The American syndicate
which recently acquired large con
cessions from the soviet government
in Kamchatka through B. Vanderlip
has decided to use Seattle, as the port
for trade operations with soviet Rus
STA. Enormous stores will be built
there for export trade to Vladivostok
and the construction foil tanks has
been started.
Whitman College Endowment.
WALLA WALLA.-Ten thousand
dollars in bonds of the United States
government and the Pacific Light and
Power company, were received recent
ly from Mrs. Caroline A. Kamm o.
Portland, Ore, as a contribution t.
the endowment fund Of Whitman col
lege, in memory of her father ant
mother. Mrs. Kamm Is the oldes
living white child born in Oregon ant
is the daughter of William and Mar!
Dix Gray, who came west with Marcus
Whitman in 1886.
Spokane Milk Supply Big.
| SPOKANE.-More milk is cominl
into Spokane from the farms than tn
trade here requires, thus creating
surplus which will be worked up int
butter and other byproducts of tn
dairying industry. A cut of $1.10
hundred pounds to the farmer for SUI
plus milk, effective January 10,
announced by local distributors. Tn
price on the surplus milk will be $2.4
as against $3.50 hundred pounds 70
milk accepted as part of the pro
ducers' regular shipments. The SUI
plus milk will be determined by tota
ing a producers shipments for 81
: months and dividing this by six, whic
gives the average shipments for tn
last six months. Monthly shipment
equaling the six months average wi
be paid for at the $3.50 price, Will
all over this will be paid for at $2.4,
RECENT DEATHS
: DAYTON.-Cushman Lyman. az
, 70, after a long illness.
KETTLE FALLS.-The funeral {
James B. Clinton was held Saturda,
3 CLARKSTON.-Martin Meuli, az
4 SO, a pioneer of this section, also v
: E. Potter, hotel proprietor of CLAIR
stOn.
SPOKANE.-Terence Joseph Tull
), died here Saturday. He was So veal
of age, and had been a resident
Bismarck, N. D., for 40 years. He ";
member Of the G. A. R..
, WALLA WALLA.-Mrs. Elizabe
Smith. age 10, wife Of ]. w. Smit
r. Mrs. R. H. Raley, oge SO, Of hea
trouble. With her husband she cross,
the plains from Missouri in 1862.