The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-03-03
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The dance hall at Heisson in Clarke
county burned to the ground last
week.
Fully 5000 jackrabbits were Slain
in a drive held near Ellensburg last
Saturday. f.. -.I-
w. F. Downs is preparing to re-
open his sawmill at Meskill, closed
for more than year.
Eighteen members of the 1. w. w.
were sentenced at Spokane to 60 days
In Jail on charges of vagrancy.
According to latest estimates the
damage resulting from the fire at
Elma last week will reach $4,000.
The building committee of the Ma
sonic order in Vancouver has secured
ground and will erect a 100000 tenn
pie. ....-
Fire starting from an overheated
stove destroyed the cookhouse of the
Western Logging company near Win
lock. f@ Is ~. ~ a - s.Ha
Union employees of the Grays Har-
Der Iron & Machine Works at Aber-
deem are on strike, following a wage
controversy. g1
Falling backward from q table five
feet to the floor, Ole Thompson Of
Spokane received a fractured skull and
may lose his life. ...s.
Eugene E. ]. Lair, Reardan farm
er, convicted of second degree assault
on a 12-year-old boy, hanged himself
in Jail at Davenport.
Two hundred twenty thousand sill
yer trout fry will be shipped from
the Kalama hatchery to be liberated
In Clarke county streams.
Credit managers of Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana, met in Spo-
kane last week for the first northwest
convention of retail credit men.
Voluntary subscriptions aggregating
about $1,000 have already been pledged
for the erection of the proposed Amer
lean Legion home at Spokane.
Unless unforeseen disaster happens
to the apple crop of the Wenatchee
district, the yield this year will be
10000 carloads or 100000 boxes.
Elery H. Holesapple of Dryad has
just received citation from the war
department for "gallantry In action"
during the Meuse-Argonne offensive
Mrs. John R. Nicely of Spokane has
been unanimously elected president Of
the women's auxiliary of the Ameri-
can Legion of the department Of
Washington.
DR.. Lemuel L. North, believed to
be the oldest practicing physician in
the United States, lives in Tacoma.
DR.. North celebrated his Tooth birth
day last week.
Robert Graham, 5-year-old son Of
Robert F. Graham, living in Salzer
valley, near Centralia, died of burns
received when his nightgown caught
fire from lamp.
While handling rifle, Mrs. Fred
Rohrbach, living near Oakesdale, was
accidentally shot, the ball entering her
shoulder, glancing downward and COM
ing out at the hip.
Lyle Davis, 16, and v. Rice, 81,
were instantly killed near Port An
geles by the explosion of a can of
carbide which they found in an aban.
doned logging camp.
Maiden and Endicott, in Whitman
county, are said to have the highest
tax levy of all the incorporated towns
of Eastern Washington. The levy in
each town is u mills.
The Washington Wheat Growers
association reached the 15,000,000,-
bushel goal in its drive to sign up
wheat in the three Pacific Northwest
states before March 1.
# Plans for building 25 new resi-
dences, together with extensive i'm
provements and engagements of the
water system are features of munich
pal activity at Maiden
i Chief Bill Mason and wife of the
Quinault Indian tribe at Taholah are
preparing for trip to Washington
and hope to pay their respects to
i President-elect Harding.
i Creation of a state commission to
provide for state improvement pro-
jects to relieve unemployment is ask
ed in resolution passed by the Spo-
kane central labor council.
The Washington state board of con-
troll has apportioned to Stevens county
for this year 1925 grain sacks manufac-
tured at the Walla Walla penitentiary.
The price is 1917 cents I. o. b.
i In the absence of Safe Senator Guy
B. Croft of Spokane, now attending
the session of the legislature, his
home was stripped of all it's furnish
ings, including even the chandeliers.
i One hundred quarts of fine old
whisky, rare wine and champagne
was seized by the police dry squad of
Spokane when liquor raid was stag