The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-12-16

lines, to offset increased operating
costs.
Several hundred dollars worth OF
merchandise was obtained by burglars
who broke into the Emerson store In
COffax.
The Washington legislature will be
asked for an appropriation of $4,000
to finance a campaign against bee
diseases.
Indications are that fully 1000 acres
of land will be leased in the Yakima
valley next season by the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company.
Six of the largest lumber mills at
Tacoma have announced reductions In
wages. The reductions vary from 40
to SO cents day..
The proposed $2.450.000 school bond
issue was defeated at Tacoma, failing
to receive the three:fifths vote neces-
sary for its adoption.
Chehalis will have another big saw
mill as soon as the lumber market has
become stabilized and business condi-
lions back to normal.
Thirty-three registered pigs have
been sold by S. b. Cornell, residing
near Prosser, for total price Of $43S9,
an average Of $133 head.
William Hazard, one Of the oldest
residents of Lewis county and vet
eran of the Civil war, died at his home
in ClaQuato at the age Of 80.
Arthur Bennett Smith, wanted in St
Louis in connection with the disap-
pearance of $4,000 worth of Liberty
bonds, is under arrest at Iona.
Mrs. 8. 8. Kirkpatrick, died at Spo-
kane of injuries received by being drag.
ged IL city blocks by speeding auto
mobile, according to the police.
Fifty persons met death in auto
mobile accidents in Seattle during
1919, the highest death rate from that
cause in the Pacific Northwest.
The smallest weeks business in the
lumber trade this year is reported by
the weekly lumber review of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association.
The price Of milk was reduced in
Tacoma Friday by distributors. Quarts
were lowered from Is to IL IL cents
and pints from 10 to IL cents.
At meeting in Spokane last week
e. G. Ames of Seattle was unanimous
ly elected president Of the Western
Forestry and Conservation association.
The Tilton River Bituminous Coal
company at Lindberk, in Lewis county,
has begun deliveries, the first coal
from the mine going to Centralia last
week.
The paving of the Camas-Vancouver
road was completed last week, and
will be allowed to set until January is,
when the road will be opened to the
public.
With wheat prices on the upgrade
many Washington towns are expert.
encing flour buying movement that
threatens to deplete stocks of mer'
chants.
The Omak Railway company plans
to build railroad to the sawmills and
box factories 20 miles east, the road
to connect with the Great Northern
ut Omak.
Explosion of a 50-gallon steel tank
filled with oil. fatally injured Theo
dore Raun, proprietor of garage al
Seattle, and partially wrecked the
building.
The Spokane & British Columbis
Railway company has filed application
to abandon its SO miles of railroad II
Ferry county between Danville and
Republic.
Forty acres of land east Of Elma
bought from L. w. Moore by H. b
Russell. will be put into berries and
will be one Of the largest berry farm'
In the state.
Alex McGibbon, wood contractor
~ years old, was shot and, instantl,
killed at Seattle In quarrel over ,
theft Of chickens by Pete Colaghino
o section hand.
Bernard Day, IL, and Philip Wallace
Is, have admitted to the Seattle polic'
that they were responsible for serie'
Of holdups and burglaries recentl!
committed In and around Seattle.
Washington and Oregon have thu
lowest infant mortality rates OF an.
states in the union, according to {
report received from the United State
| public health service statistica
bureau. According to this report o
every 1000 infants born alive in Wash
| lngton and Oregon, only 63 die befor