The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-22
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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lice of Spokane, is dead.
Bids for the new state armory Tor
walla Walla will be opened about Aug
ust Is.
Drilling for oil has been started at
Alfalfa by the Columbia Basin Oil
company.
The price of gasoline was raised 2k
cents in Spokane last week by the oil
companies.
The properties known as the Wilson
Mills, operating near Lyle, have been
closed down.
The second annual vacation school
of the Kelso Presbyterian church IL
proving popular. -
Mrs. A. L. Orchard Of Everett was
found accidentally asphyxiated in the
bathroom Of her home.
Heavy thunder showers in and
around Dayton last week greatly de-
layed wheat hay harvesting.
The sale of thrift stamps at Aber-
deem from January to june 30
amounted to a total of S22,990.
The assessed valuation of property
in Walla Walla county is $32,74S,725,
an increase of $6,225, O26 over last year.
The first national bank of Mount
Vernon has had new burglar alarm
system installed in the bank building.
Charles Stevenson has handed in
his resignation as sheriff of Skagit
county to the board of county commits
sioners.
More than 1900, 100000 feet of tim
Der has been added to the taxation roll
of Cowlitz county by the recruise Of
timber lands.
Retail price of milk rose from fiji
teen to sixteen cents quart in Spo-
kane, shortage of pasture being given
as the reason.
Fire, believed to be incendiary, COM
pletely destroyed the storage and pack
ing warehouse of the Entiat Fruit
Growers league.
Fire completely destroyed the Green
& Newell combined sawmill and shin
gle mill on Shanghai mountain four
miles east of Kelso.
A contract for paving approximately
one mile of the Pacific highway in
.Snohomish county from Silvana north
has been let for $s5.4S6.
The Blue Mountain Highway associ-
alton has selected the road by Ana
tone as the most feasible route for the
proposed state highway to the Oregon
line.
AS result of a visit to Walla Walla
by Mrs. w. H. Coffin, state sanitary
inspector, proprietors Of three restaur-
ants face prosecution for violations of
state law.
F. P. p. Baske, former superior judge
of Lincoln county, will debate with j.
T. Freeman, president of the non-parti-
san league of Washington, on the mer-
its Of the league.
The crop forecast for Klickitat coun-
ty, as estimated by persons who have
travelled Sall over the county within the
past few weeks, is from eighty per cent
upwards, to normal.
The state reclamation board has au.
thcTized survey of swamp land prof
ects in western Washington prelimin.
airy to the construction Of drainage
and diking projects.
"A sentence of six months in the
county jail has been imposed on Chas
Craig for the violation of the /. w. w.
injunction issued by Superior Judge
Webster Of Spokane.
With the help of five state supreme
court judges and three superior court
judges, the Skagit County Bar Associa,
ton was host Saturday to the What.
com Bar Association.
Many ladybugs will be gathered in
the mountains this fall and kept In
cold storage in Walla Walla until in
the spring, when they will be liberated
in the orchards to kill off the aphis. !.
District bonds Of the Chelan reclaim.
alton district to the par value of $4,000
will be purchased by the state reclaim.
ation board for $4,000. The project
includes 1850 acres in Chelan county
According to an assistant state fire
marshal, 80 per cent Of the grain field
fire losses in the state last year were
in Walla Walla, Columbia and Whit.
man counties. The total losses were
$159,134.
Waddell Hill, 3d.. shot and killed his
wife, who had obtained in the superior
court at Walla Walla divorce from
him, and then, turning the weapon or
himself, sent a bullet through his brair
dying instantly.
DR.. Joseph F. Alexander of Seattle
was elected president of the Washing
ton State Dental association Saturday
afternoon In the closing business ses