The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-01

entries on land of this character.
Assignment of 80 3500-ton Ferris
type wooden steamships to carry 40
100000 feet of railroad ties from
Puget sound and other northwest dis
tricts to Atlantic coast ports, has been
asked in an application filed with the
United States shipping board in
Washington, ID. c., by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association. f..
Despite q vote among shipyard
workers on proposed strike on the
Pacific coast among metal trades on
April 1, the developments indicate
that Tacoma shipyards will not shut
down, but that condition similar to
that existing after the strike vote OF
December 8, when action was deferred
to January q, will ensue. ,E.n.5#
First steps to enforce the new grain
inspection law were taken at Tacoma
by the state public service commission
and p. j. Sweeney, state grain inspec-
tor. AS soon as the standards have
been set all commercial organizations
and grain merchants in the orient and
strait settlements, as well as those on
this coast, will be notified.
Samuel Hill, premier Washington
good roads booster; e. A. Stuart, pres
ident of the Carnation Milk Products
company and Harvey Lindley, all well
known Seattle residents, have been
named by N. B. Coffman, president of
the Washington State Good Roads as
ISOLATION, to study road conditions in
Belgium, France and Italy.
The department Of agriculture is
anxious to secure a successor to E. T.
Marchetti, field agent for the bureau
of crop estimates at Spokane, who
died recently Civil service examina-
lions to fill his place will be held April
% and "a at Aberdeen, Centralia,i
Olympia, Pasco, Pullman, Raymond,
Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Walla
Walla and Wenatchee.
Aliens who claimed exemption from
military service in their question
naires are encountering difficulty at
Tacoma in securing their final papers
and are calling on local draft boards,
urging that they be permitted to
change their answers. No change is
being permitted, officials say, and as
fast as the men apply their names are
transmitted to John Speed Smith of
Seattle, naturalization examiner.
District Horticultural Inspector c.
B. Wood gave out the first 1919 fruit
crop estimate for Yakima county, and
placed the total for all fruits at 1880
carloads, or about rs per cent greater
than the 1918 crop. His estimate.
which was conditioned on freedom
from serious frost damage, was appor-
toned as follows: Apples, 11,200
cars; peaches, 1900 cars; pears, $500
cars; cherries, 300 cars; other fruits.
500 cars.
Crop prospects throughout the enc
tire northwest are brighter than they
have been for years, railroad traffic
offices reported, after general sur
fvey of conditions had been completed.
Not only is the acreage seeded larger,
but the grain sown last fall has come
through the winter in good condition
and weather conditions during the
spring have enabled the farmers to
get work started earlier than usual
this year.
King, Chelan and Snohomish county
commissioners reached an agreement
in conference at Everett whereby the
Stevens pass highway will be opened
to Skykomish this year and completed
over the Cascades in the summer of
1920. The agreement is contingent
upon contribution by the federal gov
eminent of a $4,000 fund. County
estimated expenses will be as follows:
King, $4,000 to 100000; Snohomish,
$4,000 to $4,000; Chelan, $4,000.
With a view to hurrying the cleo
trification of the line from Othello to
Seattle, in order that completion may
be attained during the coming sum-
mer, the Milwaukee has appointed w.
G.. Ennis, formerly superintendent of
the Mussel Shell division, as assistant
superintendent of the coast division,
the Tacoma eastern and the main line,
west of Othello, effective at once. Mr..
Ennis will work in conjunction with
the electrical forces of the system.
No effort will be made to develop
power plants along the Yakima reser-
walton canals this year, according to
Superintendent L. M. Holt, of the In
dian irrigation service, but foundations
will be put in this season for two, and
possibly four, such plants, to be built
next year. Two of the proposed power
plants would develop total of 5000
horsepower and would irrigate from
$4,000 to 10000 acres of land not now