The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-02-17
SfDELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON

of the Chinook dance that is taking
place this week.
Two little sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
, ward Hansen, 3 and years old, were
burned to death in their home on the
Stillaguamish River, four miles north
of Granite Falls.
The Wenatchee Horticultural AS
ISOLATION will hold annual meeting on
February IS, at which time offlcers
for the coming year will be elected
and the general business of the as
ISOLATION transacted.
To cut hundreds OF acres of foot
hill farms into small acreage tracts
business men of Walla Walla are
forming an organization, and they
will in the spring plat nearly 1000
acres of new orchard.
The contract for the erection of
commercial club building at Soutc
Bend has been awarded to Townsend
& Gilbert, the contract price being
$3.50. Six bids were submitted, al
ranging from $6,450 to 1920.
Fifteen more convicts have arrived
at the state rock quarry at Mesklll.
1t is stated that there are now 81
men at Meskill. This state quarry is
f,,l IF fhof the
State of Washington has undertaken
to operate.
May % has been officially set as
the date for the inauguration OF the
Seattle Chicago through passenger
service of the Chicago, Milwaukee d:
Puget Sound Railway, according to an
announcement made by General Pas
senger Agent Hubbard.
Chelan County paid the Great Nor
thern Railway approximately $1,000
900 during the last year for freight
on nearly $500 cars of fruits. Ship
ments of lumber and merchandise
county about $1,600,000.
Convincing proof of the age of this
part of the globe was unearthed when
E. Nj. Hubbard, superintendent for the
COweeman Driving & Rafting Com
pany. discovered the tooth of mas
todon jutting from the bank of the
Coweeman a few miles above kelSo.
Fred LOzier, alive and well, walked
in upon his mourning mother, Mrs.
H. L. Smyser The tears which had
man had been positively identified"
as that of Loziler at Bellinghan. Sun.
day, were replaced by glad rejoicings
Under the auspices of the Develop
ment League, an apple-pa cking school
has been started in the old school
house at White Salmon, with an en-
rollment of %. w. G. Seton, who
packed Walla Wallas prize winners
at the National Apple Show, is in
charge.
to Spokane from the coast to stand
trial as an accomplice of f. H. Har-
rison and son in the robbery of three
men at the points of guns at Harri-
sons pOolroom, is the descendant OF
the notorious Durbin boys, partners
of Jesse James, is an assertion of the
police.
The county commissioners have alp
propriated $4,000 to be applied on
the construction of steel bridge
across Lewis River at Woodland
Cowltz County, through it's board OF
commissioners, appropriated like
sum. Either through the state or
through private subscription another
$4,000 will be raised until the esti-
mated $4,000 has been secured.
Whether an undertaking establish
ment is a general nuisance or not
Is the question that will be determined
in the superior court when the case
just filed by property owners in the
exclusive residential districts at Sc
| attic is heard. The suit seeks to GUST
| two undertaking firms from a two
story building in the residential dis
trict for use as an undertaking es-
| tablishment. The complaint filed de-
clares that such an enterprise is a
| nuisance and must be abated.
1T was all because | tried to spank
my boy" said Albert Darling, of
White Salmon. as he placed his arm
under the X-ray and then submitted
to an operation which laid open the
wrist to the bone. AS he swung on
the lad the boy instinctivc,y threw
his hand behind for protection, and
the indelible pencil he held penetrat.
ed the fathers wrist and the point
broke off, starting blood poison in a
few days, which may necessitate am.
putation
There is to be a marked revival of
| the cattle industry in 4,