The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-09-16
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
IL Our Readers.

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Tacoma's school census shows an in
crease of 1869, a gain of z per cent
over last year. ..-.... s.-. a. o..
Grays Harbor county registered a
population gain between 1910 and 1870
of 25.2 per cent. -.s
Winlock will act as host for con-
yention of northwest station agents.
About SO will be in attendance.
The annual convention of the North
west Electric Light & Power associa-
ton held four days session in Spo-
kane.
The new 100000 gymnasium erected
for the boys at the state training
school at Chehalis was dedicated Mon
day evening.
The body of Nellie Wann, 18-year-oid
daughter of James w. Wanh of Hoop
er, was found floating in the Palouse
river at Palouse. -.
The safes of the Columbia Valley
Lumber company and the Dryden pool
hall at Dryden were blown. open and
800 taken from them.
Announcement is made that 500 re-
frigerator cars costing nearly 100000
will be built in the northwest for the
Great Northern railway.
In the September issue Of the
Shipping Register, San Francisco,
Grays Harbor is given strong in
dorsement as a deep water port.
w. ]. Cooper, master mechanic for
the Bordeaux Lumber and Logging
company, was killed by falling steam
pipe at Camp No. near Olympia.
Ivan McCord, member of the Wilbur
Armour pig club, of Wilbur, won both
the first and third prizes at the in
terstate fair in Spokane for pigs six
months old.
Fire at Delainy station which burn
ed for two days destroyed 10000
bushels of grain belonging to Bert
Delainy and the Washington Land and
Stock company.
More than 80 per cent of the total
ministerial membership of Puget
sound conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church registered at the
opening session at Olympia
Mrs. A. J. Gaisell, daughter Leota,
II years old and Albert Cooper, aged
10, died in hospital in Olympia from
burns caused by the. explosion of a
gasoline lamp at their home in Gate.
The public service commission has
ordered Cancelled the tariff Of the
Mort. Coast Power company which
would have increased the charge for
service of the Cowlitz county diking
districts.
The LIST United States infantry,
which has two battalions at Vancouver
barracks and one battalion at Fort
Lawton, has been ordered by the war
department to Camp Travis, Texas, to
become part of the I'd division.
A. P. Davis, director of the q. s.
reclamation service was,in Pasco Sun
day to inspect the proposed Five-Miie
dam project, under which thousands
of acres of land in WalIa Walla and
Franklin counties would be irrigated.
A group of army aviators stationed
at Eugene, Or, during the past sum-
mer on forest fire patrol duty has been
assigned for duty at Camp Lewis,
where the filters will pass several
weeks directing gunfire in artillery
practice.
County engineers and commission
ers of Pacific and Grays Harbor coun-
ties have reached an agreement as to
the rebuilding of the bridge over
North river, on the road from Aber-
deem to Brooklyn, which has been
closed for Some time.
Three jitney bus ordinances, one of
them proposed by drivers and which
would allow buses to operate on
schedules and pay the city a portion
of the fare collected, were placed on
file with the public utilities committee
of the Seattle city council.
The rough country in the vicinity
of Enumclaw is being secured by a
posse of King county deputy sheriffs
and the county bloodhounds for yegg-
men who made an unsuccessful at
tempt to blow the safe in the Northern
Pacific depot at Enumclaw.
James X. Moloney, a Tacoma mer-
chant, has received cablegram an
nouncing the death of his son from a
| gunshot wound received in a clash
between Irish factions at WATERFOWL,
Ireland. The boy, aged nine, was Wis.,
| iting in Ireland with his mother.
The Portland district office Of the
forest service approved the sale to the
Snow Creek Lumber company, Seattle,
of 100000 feet of timber in the
Olympic national forest. The stand is
composed Of Douglas fir, western red
cedar, silver fir and western hemlock,