The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-10-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers


ing the IL months ended Septembesl
by the wage collection apartment OF
the state labor commissioners office
and paid over to the men.
The recrganized Industrial welfare
commission has recommended that.
labor unions of Washington cooperate
with those of Oregon in an effort to
procure reduction of the 54-hours week
regulation in Oregon, to conform with
the eight-hour day condition obtaining
in Washington.
Declaring existing federal laws en-
tirely inadequate to curb the growing
traffic in drugs, federal grand jury
at Tacoma presented report recon-
mending to congress the passage OF
more drastic legislation. The grand
jury indicted 10 persons for illegal
traffic in drugs.
| Owing to the fact that some OF the
strawberry fields of Lewis county
have become seriously affected with
the strawberry weevil, District Fruit
luSpeClOI tAlbSIl ioouSu
to growers that before selling or ship
ping any plants from their patches an
inspection must be made.
The efforts of the state of Wash
ington, through State Fish Commits
sioner Darwin, to propagate the Puget
sound sockeye have proved success
full. The sockeye, which is OF Fraser
river (Canada) origin, is the greatest
of all Puget sound salmon runs and
is the finest of known species.
In an address before the Pacific
Coast Association of Port Authorities
at Seattle, John H. McCallum of San
Francisco, president of the California
state board of harbor commissioners,
declared that Pacific Coast ports are
superior to those of the Atlantic Coast
in location, facilities and markets.
Prominent building owners and man
ayers of the northwest were guests OF
Spokane during two-day conference
which was held at the Davenport
Hotel Representatives were present
from Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vic
toria and Vancouver and also from
Salt Lake city and from San Francis
Henry w. Stein, farmer-labor candi
date for state senator from the
Twenty-third senatorial district, COM
posed Of Island, Mason and Kitsap
counties, won his mandamus action
begun in the Thurston superior court
to compel Secretary Of State Hinkle
to place his name on the November
ballot when Judge Wright, after argu-
ments, ordered the writ.
| A committee of Centralians Friday
went to Olympia and interviewed Of
ficiak of the state reclamation services
relative to the proposed dredging Of
the Chehaps river, WHEREBY many
acres of inundated land southwest OF
| Centralia would be reclaimed. STAGE
officials will look over the project,
! after which a survey will be made and
costs estimated. It is proposed to
form district and issue bonds.
Surveying crews, said to be en-
ployes of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, have for the past
month been making survey along the
west bank of the Columbia river, near
the east line of Benton county. The
survey is said to extend from Han
ford through Fruitvale and Richmond
to Kennewick, being designed to con-
| stitute an extension Of the Hanford
branch of the Milwaukee railway.
Fish propaganda In Washington is
practically useless, is thoroughly in
efficient and should be remedied at
once, in the opinion OF R. E. Clanton,
also a federal fish commissioner. Mr..
Clanton is held to be one of the fore
most authorities on the game fish stu
alton in the country and has much sue
cess with hatcheries, especially at Bon
neville, Or. He expressed his views on
the matter in letter to the HoQuiam
Rod & Gun club.
The public service commission has
QdlQ lulO luc SldIc treasury $OOtt, UC-
ing collections for last month Of the
state grain inspection department. l..
d. Grove, chief inspector, reports that
the months operation shows earnings
of approximately $720 in excess of cost
of conducting the office. At Tacoma
about 10000 tons of grain and $500
tons of hay were inspected; at Sc
attic about $4,000 tons of grain and
213 tons of hay were handled; at Spo-
kane, about 5000 tons of grain and 900
tons of hay.
Construction of 100000 ocean
terminal for the Pacific steamship
company on the 26-acre site of the
former. Skinner & Eddy yard No. 2
in Seattle has been taken under con-
sideration by the United States ship
ping board, owner of the property.
The completed terminal will be bought
by the steamship company. Plans for