The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-17

In the SCHOOLS or Lewis county out
side of Centralia and Chehalis, 281 stu.
dents have passed the eighth grade
examinations.
The biggest crowd ever known at
tended the celebration of Dayton
Days which was held in Dayton Fri
day and Saturday.
Financial problems involving the az
ricultural, commercial and social vel
| fare of the state and nation were
analysed when nearly 400 bankers, in
vestment officials, bond dealers and
financiers assembled from all sections
| of the state at Seattle Friday 20 attend
the 25th annual convention of the
] Washington Bankers association.
Simultaneous investigation by the
and Spokane, based on charges that
the gasoline shortage in this district
is fictitious, arranged by the three big
companies for the purpose of freezing
out the Independent dealers, is an
nounced by ]. F. McAuley, chief of
the bureau of investigation in Seattle
| Hearings announced by the public
| service commission to be held in east
| ern Washington from June IA to 10
on rates of the Pacific Power & Light
| company, have been postponed for sew
| eral weeks. The hearings involve gas
and electric rates at Yakima and Wal
| la Walla and water rates at Prosser
| and Kennewick. The exact dates for
| the hearings have not been determined.
Four members of the Industrial
Workers of the World, who were tried
on a charge of criminal syndicalism,
were found guilty at Chehalis. The
convicted men are Simon Hill, Charles
Brown, Tom Lassiter and Frank Hes
ton. The four men were arrested in
Centralia during the general roundup
in that city incident to the armistice-
day massacre in that city November
IL last.
Thirty bids were opened by the Lin
coin county commissioners on the con-
struction of Donahue road No. 8, from
Peach to Creston, IL miles. The bid
of s. G. Kinder, Mansfield, to do the
grading for $5O.079 was accepted. The
contract for surfacing was awarded to
the Northwest Paving company, Spo-
kane, for $28,525, and the culverts and
bridges will be put in by c., F. Bond
of Coulee City, at $9751.
The Tacoma municipal street rail-
way cannot be made to pay on a Scent
fare, H. Roy Harrison, commissioner
of public works, told the city council
His statement was made in answer to
]. w. Silver, newly elected commits
sioner of finance, who said that he had
man willing to make deal to han
die the line on that basis. The rail-
way connects the city with shipyards,
mills and other industrial plants.
Railroads operating in Washington
will not be permitted to increase freight
rates on intrastate shipments until af-
ter thorough hearings by the public
service commission and production of
evidence establishing the necessity for
such increases, it is held by the COM
mission. The roads have asked the
commission to accept in support of
their petition for horizontal increase
rates, the testimony offered at hear
ings held by the interstate commerce
commission on Interstate rates. Com
mercial bodies and shippers have been
invited by the commission to attend
the hearings
.Winter-wheat production in Wash
ington is estimated to be 16,339,000
bushels, based on the June / condi-
tion, 78 per cent Of normal. This con-
dition, as stated in the report Of G.
s. Ray, field agent for the federal bu-
reau of crop estimates, is the same as
the May 1 condition, but is consider
ably lower than the five-year average
condition Of 81 per cent on June 1. The
production of winter wheat in the
state In 1919 was 19,S00,000 bushels,
and the average for 1915-1919 is 49,
$4,000 bushels. Washington has plant
ed 1908, 900 acres of spring wheat this
season, and with a condition Of SO per
cent of normal on June 1, the crop Is
estimated at 26.541,000 bushels.