The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-05-06
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Complied for
Our Readers.

John W. Heron, former mayor of
Cathlamet, is dead at his home in that
city.
Premiums fer the Western Royal
Livestock show to be held in Spokane
next fall will total $4,000.
Sowing of the Spokane county 1920
crop of peas, estimated at $4,000 to
10000 acres, is in full swing.
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons held the. thirty-sixth annual
state convention at Spokane.
Aberdeen bank deposits during the
first four months of the year increased
1898, $40, gain of nearly IS per cent.
The annual convention of the Wash
ington State Carpenters council will
be held in Spokane the week of June
2I.f 1 asE bE9H
May day brought to more than 1000
union labor people of Spokane wage
increases ranging from SO cents to
81 a day.
Highway improvement contracts to-
state highway commission at Olympia
last week.
u The price of milk was reduced / cent
a quart by a large distribution concern
of Spokane. The new price will be
IA liz cents.
Extensive investigation over period
of two weeks has uncovered no evil
dence Of speculation in sugar by brok-
ers or jobbers in Seattle.
The Northwest Expressmen's asso-
citation, at meeting in Spokane, pass
ed resolutions demanding an increase,
Of $48 month in wages.
Funds have been apportioned from
the Knights of Columbus 100000
surplus war service fund for an ex-
service mems night school at Spokane.
Deputy CAME Warden w. Van Ausdle
has filed suit to prevent the city Of
Walla Walla from emptying sewage
into Mill creek, to the detriment of the
fish therein.
The Pa&ouse Athletic association has
been organized with volunteer mem
bership of Is school boys, young men
and business men, and with prospects
for membership of 200.
Spokanes Central Labor council,
while indorsing the good intent behind
the overalls movement, has declared
that the solution is to be found not in
overalls but in old clothes.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the plant of the City Mill-works COM
pany. in Tacoma, and for time threat
ened to spread to other industries. The
loss was estimated at 100000
The. Columbia Basin Oil company
has bought three carloads of drilling
machinery, an SO-foot derrick and 1000
feet of casing in California and it is
en- route to Alfalfa where an oil well
Is to be drilled.
The city of Toppenish has won on it's
petition for a second grade crossing
over the Northern Pacific tracks. The
case was twice lost before the public
service commission, but was carried to
the superior court and won.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
house by the appropriations commit
tee provides $4,000 for maintenance
and construction of the Okanogan ir-
rigation project in Washington and
1851, 900 for the Yakima praject.,
State Treasurer w. w. Sherman an
nounced the appointment Of C. w.
Hinton as deputy state treasurer. to
succeed George Hall, who recently re-
signed to obecome manager Of the
Olympia Building and Loan associa
ton.
Started by volley fired by de-
tachment of United States marines
from the marine corps recruiting Of
flee in Seattle, Ray A. Wilson, form
or marine, at noon Saturday began an
attempt to run from Seattle to New
York city.
The Crown Paving & Construction
company, Canadian concern, was
awarded the contract to construct the
paved road from Walla Walla to the
state line for 1912 ,071.3O. The road will
be of concrete with 1-2-inch center
and inches on the sides. 1t will be
Is feet in width.
Four men were instantly killed and
"a others injured, two possibly fatally.
when runaway logging train, operat-
ed by the. North Bend Lumber COM
pany, was derailed at curve three
miles from North Bend. The dead are:
Joseph Finnigan, William ]. Hailwood,
John Sundquist, timberworkers, and
Harry Fleming, engineer.
Land Commissioner Savidge an
nounces that it has been decided that
cascara bark may be sold from state
lands, the previous ruling on this point
having been changed. Applications
for the purchase of the bark will be