The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-12-02
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

been reported at Elberton, but all are
mild. 49,
Roy e. Carey has been appointed
postmaster at Hartline by President
Wilson. ..@. & @.
Building permits in Spokane for the
first II months of this year have pass
ed the $2,900,000 mark.
Robert Steffen, age 8, son of Robert
Steffen of Meskell, is dead as the re-
| suit of a kick from horse.
Prosecution of fake doctors and doc
tors not licensed under the state laws
has been started at Tacoma.
Farmers of the Eufaula district, a
few miles west of Kelso, have organ
lied the Eufaula farm bureau. 2
Karl Krummell has been appointed
postmaster at Adna, Lewis county, and
Clara A. Didwell at Brooklyn, Pacific
county.
Engineers of the United States recla-
nation sservice have started their in
spection of the Columbia basin irriga-
ton project.
Precautions against the spread Of
diphtheria, which has invaded the
town, have caused the closing of the
Puyallup schools.
The Washington Union Coal CON-
pany at Tono is running its mines on
full time in order to supply an unusual
demand for its product.
Fire last Sunday virtually wiped
out the business section of the town
of Ashford, at the foot of Mount Rain
Ter. The loss is $4,000.
A total of 5S00 cars of apples have
been shipped out of Wenatchee to date
and shipments are going forward at
the rate of about SO cars daily.
Three masked men held up a Taco
ma Japanese store at the point of re.
volvers and obtained currency and
bonds estimated to total $4,000.
Owing to unsettled market condi.
tions, the Menefee Lumber company
has suspended operations at its Win,
lock, mill until about February 1.
The authorities at Prosser arrested
three strangers suspected of being
there for the purpose of supplying To-
cal addicts with contraband drugs.
John Simons, well known Indian
who fought in the wars of '55 and '56
died in Puyallup last week. He was
born in Pierce county 103 years ago
William M. Inglis, for seven years
colonel of the old Second Washington
infantry, National Guard, has received
q commission as major in the regular
army.
Several thousand vacancies still ex
list at Camp Lewis despite the fact that
recruits are arriving daily from al
most every section of the United
States.
When an automobile overturned or
the highway near Tacoma and plunged
into a ditch containing two feet Of
water. Elmer Riley OF. Seattle was
drowned
Detective ] H. Fox of the Everett
police department was shot and killed
by an unknown man for whom Snoho
mish and King county officers arr
searching.
The continued unreasonable rains
are causing apprehension to potato
growers in the vicinity of La Center
ms late potatoes are beginning to TO
in the fields.
BY a vote of approximately 4 to
the school district Of Montesano ha.
voted to issue $4,000 in bonds to built
an addition of eight rooms to its uni
school building.
Ellis Lewis Garretson, imperial pc
tentate of the Mystic Shrine Of Nortl
America, has returned to his home II
Tacoma after a lengthy journe.
through the east.
Suffering from a nervous break
down, j. q. Pinkham, president of tn
]. E. Pinkham Lumber company o
Seattle, shot and killed himself at hi
home in that city.
!. Corporation Counsel Meier of Seattl
has completed work on a bill TO
amendment of the state constitution
to permit the merger of King count
and the city of Seattle.
The before Thanksgiving day rabbi
drive at Warden was the greatest eve
held in southern Grant county. Owe
800 hunters took part and more tha
5000 rabbits are said to have bee
killed.
AS a result of a. contract recentl
signed with w. R. Wells. owner of
poultry ranch near Prosser, 1900
baby chicks are to be delivered to
Spokane firm in April and May G
next spring.
Approximately $4,000 has been oil
tanned by the reclamation and Ian
settlement committee of the Spokan
III chamber of commerce in aid of PR
II Iiminary plans for the Columbia basi