The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-02-05
WASHINGTON STATE
VIEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

amounted 10 S44l,UUO..
Schools at Monroe have been closed
because of influenza.
Because of the "flu" the schools at
Omak have been closed for week
A total of $941,044 will be raised in
Lincoln county during 1920 from the
1919 tax rolls.
Sales of Red Cross Christmas seals
in the Centralia district exceeded the
quota by nearly 5000.
Road bonds to the amount of $780,
900 have been delivered to Wenatchee
banks to pay for, contracts under way
and to be let.
Two Scotch orphans are to be edu-
Gated at Washington State college by
the Northwestern Association of Short
horn Breeders.
Two temporary schools will be built
at Wenatchee to accommodate an over
flow of pupils. Each building will take
care of 100 scholars.
Robbers entered the Waugh dry
goods store at Aberdeen and stole $4,000
worth of silks. The goods were taken
away in an automobile,
Former Mayor Alexander c. Little
of Raymond, who went to Los Angeles
more than two months ago in the hope
of improving his health, is missing.
BY order of the county health officer
the Wenatchee city schools were
closed last week. Over 600 of the
1900 pupils enrolled were reported ill.
| The Indian appropriation bill which
has passed the senate carries an APP
preparation of 100000 for continuing
work on the Wapato project in the
Yakima valley.
The state sheriffs' convention will
be held at Walla Walla February 5
and 6. Business sessions will occur in
the daytime and theatre parties and
banquets at night.
At road meeting at Morton resolu-
lions were passed favoring a bond
issue by Lewis county, provided the
money be spent on utility roads rather
than scenic roads.
Seattle police are investigating the
discovery of number of supposed hui
man bones in q grave under "mys-
terry house" on Beacon hill, which
burned down recently.
Mrs. c. E. Peterson of Pasco was
badly injured by her hair catching in
a pulley Of q cleaning machine, her
scalp and one ear being almost COM
pletely torn from her head.
Federal Judge Cushman at. Tacoma
sentenced William Randall, convicted
last week of conspiracy to circulate
seditious literature. to a three-year
term at McNeiIs island:
At a reception given newly elected
officials of Elma the needs of the town
were discussed and assurance given the
officials that they would be backed up
In all constructive measures.
J City Engineer Sinner of Wenatchee
has filed protest against probable
so per cent increase of gas rate, and
hearing will be held by the state
public service commission February Is.
Official announcement made by the
Standard Oil company that it will take
distillate from the market is a hard
blow to fishermen. tugboat operators
and owners of other small power craft
on Puget sound.
| Trapping of wild fur-bearing animals
within sight of Seattle this winter has
| netted $40 day for Martin McDon-
aid, whose traps are set each year at
the extreme north end of Lake Wash
ington, near Kenmore.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Timber Workers union. which
IL to be held in Spokane March 1917,
will be the largest in the history of
the. organisation, according to John
Norland, secretary Of the organization.
The planting of additional berry |
acreage and the contracting of acre
age already planted to eanneries is
urged by Theodore Albert, district
horticultural agent for Lewis county. |
rather than the building of new can.
merry
Large ice jams have been floating II
in the Columbia river, again endanger-
ing the O.-W. r. & N. bridge q short N
distance below Pasco. Workmen have
been blasting in an effort to break the
jams and start the normal flow of ice
down the river.
Mrs. Eunfce Wfnsor died at Shelton,
January u. She was one of the few
remaining women pioneers of Wash
ingtOn having come to the state in
1S4S, and almost the last Of the original
pioneer Huntington family. Mrs Win
sor was 85 years old.
Pratt and Watson, Tacoma, were
awarded the contract for construction
Of a building of the capitol group by