The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been
asked by Seattle citizens to become a
candidate for vice-president of the
United States.
Mrs. Sadie Howser of the. Grand
Mound industrial school says that no
more girls will be paroled from the
institution to Yakima county.
The substantial sum of $2,193,976 .62
is the gain which the IL Lewis county
banks have made in their bank depos-
its in the past two years, according to
total just completed
Wage increases of cents an hour,
retroactive to August last, have been
awarded street railway employees Of
the Spokane & Inland Empire railway
by the federal war labor board.
DR.. Hans Sulzer, ambassador at
Washington from Switzerland and in
control of German diplomatic affairs
in the United States, will visit Tacoma
and other coast cities between April /
to Is.
Seattle's city officials turned over
SIS 100000 in utility bonds to traction
heads in exchange for the Stone-Web-
ster street car system. Municipal OPP
Grafton of the entire line began Tues
day.
The White Sheep company of Yaki-
ma has made the first 1919 shipment
of Yakima sheep to spring and sum-
mer range, having shipped 1900 head
from Prosser to the Colville reserva-
tion
Frank Brown, prosperous farmer
and stockman of the Cowiche, was in
stantly killed at the Northern Pacific
crossing near Selah when the auto
mobile in which he was driving was
struck by train.
Seattle's canned salmon fleet for
the season of 1919, which has already
begun to move, will consist of four
teen vessels-five full-rigged ships,
three barks, one power schooner, one
barge and four tenders.
The first wool deal of the season,
in commercial loads, is reported from
Yakima. E. Berg & Co. have moved
$50 bags, or about $4,000 pounds, of
the 1919 clip to Philadelphia at So
cents per pound, or around $4,000
for the whole deal.
More than score of Pythian lodges
in Washington have adopted resolu-
ton drafted by Wishkah lodge.
knights of Pythias of Aberdeen, ask
ing the deportation of aliens who
avoided the draft by having citizen.
ship papers Cancelled.
Many clam diggers are making from
$12 to SIS day on the Grays Harbor
beaches as the result of favorable
weather conditions and tides. CLAIMS
bring $500 and $3.50 hundred. School
children are making good returns by
working after school hours.
Twenty-Five miles of concrete pave
ment are planned in Chelan county
during the next two years under the
Donahue road law. Careful estimates
made by bond experts and county Of
ficials show that the county can issue
81, Zoo, 900 worth of bonds under this
law without calling an election.
Delegates from Chelan to Riverside
met at Okanogan to assist in the form
alton of permanent organization hav-
ing for it's object the approving on the
part of the state and federal govern
ments of the proposed Methow irriga-
ton project to be constructed under
the recently enacted Banker bill.
l.. H. Darwin, state fish commission
err, has notified Otto J. Beusch, Lewis
county game warden, that 100000 sill
yer trout fry have been assigned to
Lewis county and will be ready for
planting April z The fry were hatch
ed at the Tilton river hatchery near
Morton, in the east end of the county.
At hearing where no opposition
was offered, the state public service
commission authorized the Yakima
Valley Transportation company to
raise its street car rate in Yakima
from 5 to 10, cents, with an Scent rate.
for tickets and a cents for, children's'
tickets. The new rate went into effect
on April 1.
Mining men of the northwest are
looking forward to revival of the
mining industry on scale never be-
fore equaled. They are basing their
statements on reports brought by sew
eral operators who have recently re-
turned from New York and who have
been in touch with some of che leading
metal men of the nation.
C. Ellington, chairman of the Che
halls Citizens club publicity bureau,
has received letter from Gerrit Fort,
assistant director, division of traffic,
of the United States railroad admin
istration, saying it is planned to con-