The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-11-18
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Eight children at the Spokane Chill
dren's home are now under care for
smallpox. E.. =.
The city of Hoskinson is under quar-
antine for scarlet fever, and all the
schools are closed. ~
The Winlock cooperative creamery
produced $1,000 pounds of butter dur.
ing the month of October. ~
Caught by his clothing in a shaft at
the Spokane city asphalt plant, NJ. R.
Mastin, aged 81, an engineer, was in.
stantly killed. %.
Four fatalities have occurred in Spo-
kane within a month from automobile
accidents and % persons have been
seriously hurt.
The new steel bridge over the
Skookumchuck river on the Bucoda
road north of Centralia has been
opened to traffic.
Partial equipment for Company L
Washington national tank corps, has
reached Centralia. 1t includes blankets.
hats and overcoats.
The second death as a. result of
runaway logging car near Winlock
occurred at Tacoma, when Jack Dolan
died from fractured skull.
James Alton Bowman, 4-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harlie j. Bow
man of Wenatchee, accidentally fell
into cistern and was drowned.
The Rev. d. L. MCGOWAN, Catho-
lie priest from Valley, was instantly
killed when his auto plunged over a
200-foot embankment in Spokane.
The state Of Washington will issue
bonds for the payment of soldiers
bonuses as soon as the supreme court
passes upon the validity of the act.
Three men who held up the indie
pendence Logging company's store at
Independence made a successful es-
cape with several hundred dollars.
Production of member mills of the
Western Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton in September, 1920, exceeded that
of September last year by 9,746,645
feet.
From the Wenatchee valley last year
1880 carloads of apples were shipped,
more apples than were grown in any
state in the union, outside Of Wash
ington.
Bodies Of IA Indians were recently
removed from the cemetery at Mis-
qually to Grand Mound. The Nisqually
cemetery was recently included in
Camp Lewis territory.
Fire on the King Witt farm, north
west of Prescott, destroyed barn,
100 tons Of hay, five milk cows, a
horse and harness for SO horses. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The record Of 65,000,0O0 salmon eggs,
established several years ago by the
federal hatchery on Yes bay, Alaska, is
expected to be shattered this year by
the Chehalis hatchery at Satsop.
Directors of the Washington and
Idaho Wheat Growers association are
planning to place on the market $780,
900 worth of wheat gold bonds, security
for which will be warehouse receipts
for wheat.
Bootlegging and moonshine whisky
cases resulted in large sum being
turned into the Lewis county treas
ury in the last few weeks. The total
runs upward of $500 between Novem-
Der / and 13.
Allen c. Mason, for 81 years one of
the leading citizens of Tacoma, died
suddenly in that city few days ago.
He was formerly publisher of the Ia
coma News and was founder of the
Mason public library.
An outbreak of scabies in three
bands of sheep in Benton county was
reported to the office of the bureau
of animal industry at Walla Walla.
The bands are small and officials be-
lieve the outbreak will not spread.
Forest fires in Washington during
the winter months are rarity, but
fine weather and continued east wind
the last week were followed by fires
in the clearings back of Cathlamet
and Cape Horn in Wahkiakum county.
An ordinance recently passed in Pc
Ell, prohibiting stock from running at
large on the streets, started war in
the community. The COW owners have
nominated a ticket in an effort to de-
feat the mayor and three councilmen
if they run for reelection on Decem-
Der Z. "
Walla Walla gas users have protest
ed to the Pacific Power G. Light com.
pany against the quality and pressure
of gas and have announced that they
will file complaints with the pubic
service commission. Company OH.
Gals say that recent shipments OF coal
are to blame.
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