The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-01
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

| Stevens county to be go. Sherl1l
/ Graham has sent notices to all owners
| In the county that these unpaid
licenses must be paid by July or the
dogs will be killed.
me twenty-fffth annual campmeet-
| ing of the Church of God for Eastern
Washington, Idaho and Eastern Ore
gon is being held at upper Union flat,
10 miles south of Colfax, June rs to
July A. +.
Federal appropriations for construc-
ton and repair work at the Puget
sound naval station, Bremerton, for
July will amount to 80 per cent more j
than the June appropriations, accord
ing to a telegram received by Rear
Admiral Harry Field from the navy
department.
The state supreme court has reversed
decision of the Lewis county su.
perior court in the suit brought to
test the legality of 100000 worth
of bonds issued by the city of Cen.
tralia several years ago to construct
a municipal gravity water system.
The validity of the bonds was ques-
toned on the ground that they were
sold to Carstens & Earles, Seattle bond
buyers, at price about $4,000 below
par. The decision of the supreme
court upholds the validity of the bonds.
The Quinault salmon season hae
been brought to a close by order OF the
commissioner of Indian affairs at
Washington. The season has been the
poorest In years, for which the Indian
fishermen, who have the sole rights.
to fish in the Quinault river, blame
the government regulation widening
the restricted channels to 100 feet. For.
merly only so feet was closed. In for
mer years noted Indian fishermen
have earned as high as $4,000 in sea,
son, but this year the best fishermen
ave not made more than $500 to
3400. q
With no prospect for the relief OF
the car shortage situation many of the
lumber mills of the northwest are be-
ing forced to close, according to Off
GERS of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association. During the last two weeks
several mills have closed and more
will follow in the next few days.
What is said to be one Of the largest
land deals ever transacted in the Big
Bend was negotiated through James
A. Muir, when Theodore Bodean .pur-
chased the Charles Fisher $50 acres
and the George Fisher 800 acres for
100000. The land is one of the finest
and best improved farms in the Will
bur district.
Tacoma city officials say that no
increase will be made in light and
power rates in Tacoma. They en-
phasize the fact that the advance of
20 per cent made in Seattle will work
to the advantage Of Tacoma as q
place where manufacturers seeking
cheap power may turn: The Tacoma
! municipal plan cleared over 100000
i last year. The present Tacoma rates
are lower than the Seattle prices be-
| fore the rise.
That the Twohy Brothers shipyard,
on the Duwamish waterway, known
| as the Seattle North Pacific plant, may
soon be converted into a factory for
| the manufacture of railroad cars and
gondolas was the statement made by
James F. Twohy, vice-president of the
company The decision to convert the
| establishment into railroad equip
ment factory was based on the lessen
ing demand for shipbuilding, accord
| ing to Twohy.
The Chehalis hatchery near Satsop
| has distributed the past season 15,O00,-
| 900 fry in various streams of the
state, according to I. NJ. Rice, superin-
| tendent of the hatchery. With a ca
pacity of 100000 eggs, the plant has
used 45,00O,000. OF the eggs secured
] 38,00O,000 were dog salmon and the
remainder principally silver or cohoe
salmon. The hatchery handles more
than twice as many eggs and fry as
any other hatchery in the state.
Reports indicate that sentiment on
Grays Harbor is practically unani-
nous in favor Of the issue of 100000
in bonds for the improvement of the
| port. The central labor council and
the building trades council of Aber-
deem and. Hoquiam have adopted reso-
lutions favoring the bonds and the
Aberdeen carpenters union has not
only resolved to support the bonds,
but has sent the resolutions to Monte
sano and Elma, urging like action.
Investigation of the reasons. for the
gasoline shortage in eastern Washing
ton in view of what he declared were
plentiful supplies in northern Idaho
was started In Spokane by Represen-
tative Webster Of the fifth Washing
| tOn district He telegranhed ATTORNEY.