The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-10-07
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Complied for
Our Readers.

Miners in the Superior coal mine at
Chehalis are having an enforced idle
ness owing to drifting sand which
has seriously interfered with work.
Andrew Mael, Pullman farmer,
has received 1907 for five corn fed
hogs. The largest weighed 61O pounds
and brought $97 at 16 cents per pound.
| State Inspectors Jones and Hender-
son, who have been investigating
Walla Walla places of business, state
that the sanitary conditions are fairly
good.
| The total assessed valuation of the
state as equalized By the state board
of equalization for the year 1920 is
Lies, s23,659. an increase over 1919
of 33,3O2,S21.
To form berry growers Of Grays
Harbor county into AN association will
be the object of a meeting to be held
at Elma, October IL, and at Monte
sano, October IL.
Hannes Papio, bucker for the
Clemens Logging company at camp
near Melbourne, was killed when log
near the spot where he was working
rolled upon him.
i Robert Taylor, a., of Ellensburg,
was shot and killed with his own rifle
when he stumbled and fell while on
his way to investigate an uproar in
q chicken house.
Lectures by DR.. Baillette of New
York State university are feature OF
the Grays Harbor county institute,
which met in Aberdeen Monday for q
three days session.
Leo. Murphy, %, of Kingston, was
accidentally shot and killed while
hunting in the woods seven miles from
Olympia by R. G. Preston, member
of the same party.
From March 1 to September 1, 1920,
the receipt for motor vehicle licenses
by the secretary of state amounted to
s2,715,772. The number of licenses
Issued was 1876.
] The 1920 football season will be Of
ficially opened in Seattle next Satur-
day, when the University of Washing
ton eleven meets Whitman college on
the old university field.
Right Rev. w. F. Nichols, bishop of
California, was reelected president of
the Pacific synod of the Protestant
Episcopal church at the annual meet
Ing of the synod in Seattle.
1 An unknown man entered the home
of Harry Gregg, near Othello, tied
Gregg to a chair and shot him three
times when he endeavored to free him
self. Mrs. Gregg was seriously in
jured when she attempted to help her
husband
ward trend in the west coast lumber
Industry during the week ending Sep
TENDER. 25, according to a report is
sued by Robert B. Allen, manager of
the West Coast Lumbermen's asso-
citation, who sets the total volume of
acceptance at 72,19O,S22 feet, of which
approximately 40 per cent was railroad
material.
AS the initial steps to develop COM
mercial logging on large areas Of
Washington government forest re-
serve, under system which will as
sure favorable reforestation to per-
petuate the lumber industry in the
1 mr. nj nv
4 aminer with Seattle federal head
quarters, announced the completion of
plans which will allow an annual cut
Of from 100000 to 80,000,00O feet for
the next 60 years in the Sank Stilagua-
mich district of the Snoqualmie ma
tional forest in western Washington.
There was 25 per cent decrease in
the number of forest fires during 1920,
according to a report of State Forester
F.. E. Pape. There were total of.
754 fires in the state, besides the
fires in the national forest During
the year in western Washington there
was an area of 72,700 acres burned
over by the forest fires and 10,288
acres burned over in eastern Wash
lngton. making total of s2,9ss acres
in the state. Of the 754 forest fires in
western Washington during 1920, 102
were started by campers and tourists,
according to Pape''s report. OF the
$50 forest fires in eastern Washington
during 1920. a5 were caused by light,
ming.
SCHOOL NOTES.