The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-05-13
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST ! EElR'lEE;ss
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The organization of Civic club ut
Tenino has been perfected.
| Centralia's bank deposits at the close
Of business May 4 totaled $3.257.3ss.22.
| Drainage district No. 2 has been
formed to drain about 995 acres east
Of Montesano. >,
The Grays River Single company's
plant at Grays River was practically
destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Lester G. Servis, Is. daughter
Of Governor and Mrs. Louis F. Hart,
died in Tacoma following an operation.
| Seventeen animals out of SIS cows
in 81 herds of Grays Harbor county
were found tubercular in two weeks
test.
| Virtual elimination OF jitney bus
competition against municipal street
railway operations has been agreed up
on at Seattle.
Sunset highway, across SnOqualmie
pass, was opened to automobile traffic
Sunday. The earliest previous open
ing of the pass was June of last
year.
The Carlisle-Pennell Lumber COM
pany's big mill at Onalaska resumed
operations Monday after three weeks
shutdown to allow electrical installa-
ton.
Spokane, ranking as 18th city in the
country in 1910, had a decrease OF 1913
in population In the. past ten years and
now has 1O4.204, the census bureau an
nounced.
One hundred and fifty Grays Harbor
residents have organized to work for
the passage of an 100000 port de-
velopment bond issue, to- be voted on
June 26.
The 1k-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Aust, living mile from
Pc Ell, was drowned when he fell
into q crock Of water while playing in
the house.
Miss Rose Fowler, extension worker
for Ellensburg Normal school, spent .
week In Cowlitz county, addressing
teachers and pupils on means Of i'm
proving silent reading.
The Grays Harbor Rod and Gun
club will make application for 1.OOO,-
900 eastern brook. cutthroat and rain
bow trout to be liberated In waters of
Grays Harbor county.
Clyde Otis Robinson, 16-year-old SON
Of Postmaster Otis Robinson of Lantz,
was burned to death in . fire which
destroyed a garage on the farm Of d.
@. Galloway. near Lantz.
Grays Harbor clam season, now near
ing q close, has been much better than
last season, according to local pack
ers, and, with fair weather to June
/, will be fully up to normal.
The present season on Lewis river
promises to be one of the most active
In many years. as every mill and log
cling camp In the district has either
started up or will do 80 shortly.
Charles Watson of Doty, was shot
and fatally wounded by police officers
who claim that he refused to obey an
order to halt an automobile in which
he was riding with a companion.
The union school board of the newly
consolidated district at Oakland has
taken initial steps looking toward the
voting of $4,000 in bonds for new
school building for the district at Oak
Vile.
Dan Stewart. Joe McCaskill and o.
Kowalchuk, three /. w. W., in Jail
at walla Walla since November is
last, were found guilty of criminal syn
dicalism by q jury in the superior
court.
Wednesday, May IL, the Elma Com
munity club ran an auto excursion to
Puyallup. leaving Elma at z in the
morning, to view the berry fields and
the intensive farming operations of the
Puyallup valley.
Frank X. Kaynor, one of the leading
trapshooters Of the Northwest, died
~ Ills uCuuS Ill 0c0SSAC 81 SuC csc Va
IS. He won the sectional medal at
the Portland trapshoot last year and
the state medal at Yakima.
w. E. (PussyfooD Johnson, prohibit
ton leader who recently returned from
. campaign in England, will speak in
Spokane July Z, 1t was announced.
Other northwestern dates include Ia
coma, July 8; Seattle, July 8.
A thorough reorganization of the
Tacoma police force, involving changes
in nearly all departments of the serv-
Ice, has been ordered as the first Of
fetal act of the new commissioner OF
public safety, Fred Shoemaker.
Fruit interests at Underwood have
been notified that all apple warehouses
along the Spokane Portland & Seattle
railroad there must be moved several