Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-12-09
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This state
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Auto Licenses in 1921.

| WAILA WALLA.-lt cost 1924
| month to operate the penitentiary tn
| last six months.
Gas Tax.
OLYMPIA.-Washing will collec
| more than 100000 a year in gasoline
taxes, according to revised estimates
G. N. to Extend Double Track.
1t is reported that double-trackine
of part of the Great Northern railway
between Wenatchee and Harrington
to cost in the neighborhood Of 100000
is being considered by the railway.
Calls Jobless Conference.
SEATTLE.-Inv to mayors
and other public officials all oversthe
state to attend conference here De
cember 10 and 20 to cope with the un
employment situation were sent out
Saturday by Governor L. F. Hart.
Whitman County Birthday.
COLFAX.-The dinner and enter.
tainment Nov. 80 to celebrate the 50th
anniversary Of the formation OF
Whitman county was attended by a
representative gathering of pioneers.
Mansfield Bank Fails.
OLYMPIA.-The Mansfield State
bank at Mansfield closed its doors
recently This is the fourth state
bank in central Washington to close
since August. The difficulty was due
to crop failure and over.extension on
loans.
Lndberg Found Guilty.
TACOMA-Gustaf Lindberg, whole
sale grocer and former director of the
defunct andinavian-American Bank
of Tacoma, Saturday was found guilty
by jury in the superior court of
criminally borrowing $4,000 from the
defunct bank.
}. n. HurIbert w. S. C. Regent.
OLYMPIA. Wash.--Our governor an
nounces the appointment of James H.
Hurlbert of Mount Vernon, Wash, as
a regent OF Washington State college.
Mr. Hurlbert Is prominent farmer of
Skagit county. He succeeds Fred S.
Stimson Of Seattle, who died recently.
Mahoney's Sister Guilty.
SEATTLE.-Mrs. Dolores Johnson,
sister Of James E. Mahoney, convicted
wife murderer, was found guilty by
jury OF forgery in connection with an
alleged fraudulent instrument by
which Mahoney was given power of
attorney over property of his wife es-
timated to be worth 100000.
Dayton Lad Killed by Blast.
DAYTON-John Nelson Jr.. age 10
was killed Friday while working with
team in the city park by a rock
hurled by a dynamite blast in the
creek bed. Nelson was $50 Yards
away when struck and died almost in.
stantly. One side of his head was
torn open by rock weighing nearly
two pounds.
James MacDonaLd Succumbs.
SPRAGUE-James Macdonald died
at his home here December 3 of hem
orrhage OF the brain. Mr.. Macdonald
was born In northern Ireland in SEN
tember 1948. When a young man he
engaged in business in Glasgow. re.
naming there until 1870, when he
came to the United States. For -
years he was timekeeper for the Car
negie steel works in Pittsburgh. He
came to Washington in 1882 and In
1884 he engaged in stock raising south
of Sprague
w. S. C. Stock Wins.
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
PuLLMAN.-The seven cattle and six
sheep exhibited by the state college
III the Pacific International Live
STOCK Exposition show brought u
prizes and IL ribbons. The seven cat
tie' SHOWN in Is classes, won six
championship prizes, six blue ribbons
i've red and one white. The six sheen
won championship prize. three
iirsts' one second and two thirds. For
the fourth time in four winter shows
the college has had the highest.
priced steer.
RECENT DEATHS.
REPUBLIC-Mrs, Margaret f. Stro.
bridge. age 80.
SPokANE.--Richard C. Brassinp-
.oh' butcher, resident here for the
last 26 years.
WALl4A WAL.A.--Mrs. Anne Kirk.
man. age 7S, resident of the valley
since 1878.
FoLLMAN.-Many Pullman people
went to Palouse Friday to attend the
funeral OF j b. Espey, pioneer -of
the Inland Empire. :,
SEATTLE - Robert Bridges. for
many years prominent in democratic
party activities in the state of Wash.
s snseoh ana last year candidate of the
iarmer-iabor party for governor
ARBUCklE JURY