The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-11-25

rate the past week, five having been
married.
A bridge carpenter, known only as
CLANCY" was knocked off the bridge
over the Snake river at Pasco and was
drowned.
Reclamation work at Coyote creek,
Is miles up Lake Chelan, has been sus-
pended for the winter, throwing 100
men out of work.
Spokane is planning great stadium
with enlarged field and concrete
grandstands to seat $4,000 people and
to cost s275.0OO.
A program of improvements to cost
$3.50, 900 has been decided upon by the
board of directors Of the Spokane In
ternational railroad.
Joe Linden, a member OF the Aber- !
deem police force, is under arrest on
charge of smuggling whiskey on the
steamer West Niviria.
Ernest B. Hegbert is dead at Ia
coma from injuries received when he
drove his motorcycle into team of
horses in a heavy rain.
Cash donations and pledges totaling
$1,000 have been made toward the
erection of Luthern hospital and dea-
coness home in Spokane.
The Clarke County Timber company,
operating above Yacolt, has closed for
an indefinite period. About 400 men
were thrown out of work.
The Dominican Sisters Of Aberdeen
Sunday dedicated the new st. Joseph's
hospital, structure which has been
building since last August.
| Snohomish county officials have
been asked to locate Francis Garner,
who disappeared from Snohomish with
about $500 in his possession.
The public service commission has
granted an increase in the interurban
passenger fare between Seattle and
Tacoma from 81 cents to $1.02.
| The Walla Walla county agricultural
and stock fair lacked $46S Of paying
its debts following the fair this year.
| Last year the fair cleared $4,000.
The Centralia Cooperative society.
/ organized two years ago by railroad
Il employees, and other union men, has
gone into the hands Of receiver.
Tacoma people will vote on Deem
Der on proposed bond tissue OF
$2,450,0O0 to be used in the reorgan-
ization of the present school system.
While shooting at target, George
Nelson, aged 16, son Of Fred Nelson,
near Chehalis, was instantly killed by
the accidental discharge Of 20 rifle.
| Seventy.five per cent Of the real
estate owners of Grays Harbor coun-
ty now pay their full tax and get the 8
per cent rebate prior to March 10 each
year.
Dr.. F. A. LaViolete Of Bremerton
has been elected to succeed A. J..
Rhodes Of Seattle as president Of the
Washington State Chamber OF Com
merce.
The city council of Kalama has
called for special election December
z to vote on the city purchasing the
water works of the Orchard Water
company.
Lumber shipments from Washing
ton for the first nine months of the
present year represent gain of 144,-
934,594 feet over the corresponding
period in 1919. erl@.
| George w. Palmer, formerly of Ia
coma, has confessed to the Seattle
police to smuggling 100000 worth OF
morphine and cocaine into this coun.
try from China. ILL.,.
Although shot at by the man, Mrs
Guy C. Williams routed a bandit at
her home in Seattle and spread the
alarm that resulted in his capture a
half hour later.
The body OF an unidentified man
still warm and his watch ticking, was
found at Reitmeir station, southwest
of Spokane, with bullet hole In the
back of the head.
At an enthusiastic meeting at sat
sop the Grays Harbor County Berr,
Growers association adopted q consti
tuition and bylaws. All present pai'
Initiation fees Of IS.
w. E. Thompson, Cowiche farmer
is putting a new seed wheat on III
market and is meeting with feao.
sales for his product at So busne
The seed came originally from Russi
and yielded for Mr.. Thompson 20.
bushels per acre.