The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-08-26
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

A house-building campaign is to be
Undertaken in Montesano within few
weeks.
The u. S. army now has recruiting
station in .Chehalis in addition to the
navy recruiting office.
A fire in the warehouse Of the Hol-
Mason Hardware company at Spo-
kane caused loss of $4,000.
The Daughters of Democracy and
others eligible are forming an auxiliary
to the American Legion at Walla
Wal,a.
john Bagley, the founder of the
Tacoma Eastern railroad, and well
known in lumber and financial circles,
is dead.
Dodder is becoming a serious men
ace to alfalfa crops around Touchet,
according to w. H. Talley, Walla
Walla county agent.
A high wind in the Yakima valley
has done considerable damage to the
fruit crop. Pears just ready for pick
ing were badly injured.
The Whitman county commissioners
have appointed Beatrice Short of
Spokane as public health nurse to sue
coed Mrs. May Cameron King.
The population of Whitman county
is 31,323, according to announcement
of the census bureau. This is a de-
crease of 1857, or SO per cent.
Francis Delivuk, aged 10, was fatally
injured when an automobile in which
he was riding with three companions,
collided with another car at Oppor-
tunity.
While the census shows that st.
Helens precinct in Skamania county
has population of three, it is a gain
of 300 per cent over 1910 when the
population was single person.
By direction of State Fish Commits
sioner Darwin $4,000 rainbow trout fry
are to be planted at an early date in
Lewis county streams. The fry are
from the Chambers creek hatchery.
The city of Centrallia will penalize
the North Coast Power company for
Interruptions in power service to the
city during the past week, which have
caused considerable loss to local in
dustries.
]. L. Dana, fighting fire near Hunt
ers, was killed when falling tree
crushed him. Dana. had been fighting
fire for 80 hours and was too ex-
haused- to move as the blazing tree
crashed down.
Five million bushels of wheat have
been signed up by the Washington
Wheat Growers association and will
be held for cooperative marketing,
according to A. A. Gilmore, advisory
head of the association.
Thomas P. Charge, superintendent of
the state school for the deaf>at Van
couver for the past Is years has re-
signed. He will be succeeded by
George B. Lloyd of Trenton. NJ j.,
who was formerly connected with the
school.
Eight drug stores of the state sold
1144 gallons of essence of ginger in
two months this year according to
President Robertson of the State
druggists association The legiti-
mate call, he said, did not exceed
four gallons.
Robert c. Saunders. United States
attorney at Seattle, announced that
he had instructed federal prohibition
agents to make no further searches Of
private residences for liquor unless
they had absolute proof that unlawful
sales were being made.
A proposal to convene congress of
American labor representatives from
central labor councils to oppose any
war move by President Woodrow Will
son against Russia on behalf of Poland
was approved by the Seattle Central'
Labor council.
The Grays Harbor Rod and Gun
club has adopted resolution urging
the. state legislature to pass law
prohibiting the use of fire arms by
boys under 16. The clubs campaign
for membership has resulted in the
addition of more than 600 members.
George Shedden, about IS, secretary
of the state board of accountancy,
and a member of the firm of Shedden
& McAdams, certified public account
ants, with offices in Seattle and Ia
coma, was found dead from heart
trouble in his room at Walla Walla
hotel.
The Morrow logging. company,
which has been logging the timber
purchased by Robert Barr, north of
Castlerock, is completing operations
and the last of the timber, amounting
to several million feet, will be driven