The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-01-06

mum Is raised from SO cents to $1.25.
Quinault Indians have sent letter
to the commercial organizations of Ho-
Quiam and Aberdeen asking them to
use their influence in stopping the
Strengthening" of salmon by the hatch
cry on the Quinault river.
When completed, the Skagit river
power project at Seattle will develop
$780, 900 horsepower and the total cost
will run between $5O.00O.O0O and $780,
100000, according to Carl F. Uhden,
chief engineer of the project -
Dates for the second annual Inland
Empire high school champion basket
ball tournament to be held in Spo-
kane under the auspices of the Spo-
kane Amateur Athletic club, have been
announced as March IL. 10 and 10.
The Canadian steamer Canada II,
which, 1t Is alleged, arrived at Seattle
on December 20 with 200 cases of Can
adian whiskey, has been ordered con-
fiscated and sold under the provisions
of the prohibition enforcement act.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has telegraphed members of the Wash
ington delegation In congress asking
that efforts be made to include Ameri-
can salmon In the list of articles to be
protected by the emergency tariff law.
Jay p. Graves, owner of Waikiki
Jersey breeding farm near Spokane, is
to give dozen or more young Jersey
bulls of distinguished lineage as do
nation to the cause of better dairy
herds throughout the Inland Empire.
An appeal to the people of Seattle
to have "odd" jobs done at this time
to provide employment for the 1000
men and women out of work in the
city has been prepared by the Seattle
chamber of commerce unemployment
committee
Justices Of the peace of the state will
be cut off from much revenue if laws
fostered by the Ministerial alliance of
Washington are enacted by the state
legislature, providing that no justice
of the peace shall perform wedding
ceremonies.
Rising three feet in four hours, the
White river Overlooked its banks last
week, inundating hundreds Of acres
of farm land between Orillia and Kent,
In the south part Of King county. Cat
tie were moved to higher ground and
farmers prepared to abandon their
homes
The Pacific highway between Sal
mon Creek bridge and Pioneer will
be thrown open to traffic January 3,
according to b. L. Dorman, Clarke
county engineer. This highway was
paved this year from the Salmon creek
bridge to within half mile Of Pioneer,
making IA miles Of pavement from the
Columbia river interstate bridge.
Earthquakes which extended over
the entire Pacific region have been
responsible for the recent government
cable Interruptions between Seattle
and Alaska, according to Lieutenant
Colonel C. A. Sloane, officer in charge
Of the Washington-Alaska cable system
with headquarters In Seattle, who re-
turned to Seattle Friday after cable
repairing cruise aboard the United
States cable ship Burnside.
Announcement has been made that
the Washington state highway COM
missioners have definitely routed the
National Park highway between Nor
ton and Rife around over state road
No. 18 to Glenoma and thence down
old state road No. across the Nesika
bridge to Rife. The new route Sc
lected has been chosen to obviate the
possibility of the state undertaking to
build road over the divide between
Morton and Rife.
On the ground that new data have
come up which should be foundation
for new hearing In the Portland rate
case, Puget sound shipping interests
probably will ask that the long-con-
tested fight be reopened. Preferen-
tial freight tariffs from all points
south of the Snake river to Portland
over those in existence to Tacoma and
Seattle are destructive, in measure.
to sound ports, according to shipping
men. and they have been planning to
reopen the case.
The. Roslyn Coal & Coke company
will this week begin active operations
of the Superior coal mine in National
avenue in Chehalis with the purpose
of developing an output Of 500 tons
or more daily. Recently, owing to the
caving In of sand in the lower slopes
of this mine, the Portland. Railway,
Light &C. Power company, which had
been operating It on lease, abandon
ed the Superior mine. Mr.. Plants
company has taken lease on the hold
ings and will open up new shaft.
Total appropriations from general