The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-07-28
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF Interest
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

DR.. j. B. Blair has been named mem.
Der of the pension examining board at
Vancouver.
y. j. Beusch, county game warden,
has finished stocking the lakes and
streams in Lewis county with rainbow
trout eggs.
| special tax and bonds for the cree
ton of a high school building were
voted by the Naselle district of Pacific
county by a large majority.
Battle Ground, an unincorporated
| community Is miles northeast of Van
couver, probably will have chamber
Of commerce before it has a municipal
organization.
r. A. Hutchinson of Spokane, state
senator, died at a hospital in Spokane.
| after being in semi-conscious condi.
tion for "a hours.
Sheriff Will d. Tompson of Clarke
county has announced that fines taken
for violation of the prohibition law
amount to $4,000 since last January,
Wnen ne look office.
Profits totalling $45,154.63 have been
| made on the municipal street railway
in Seattle during the first six months
of 1921, according to figures made pub
lie by Mayor Caldwell.
Incomplete returns from most of the
area affected by the recent high water
in the Willamette, Columbia, Snake
and Wenatchee rivers indicate none.
| tary loss of about $375,O00.
Four men charged with the sale and
possession of narcotics have been jailed
in Tacoma since the Inauguration of a
concerted drive by police, federal and
military authorities against the drug
traffic.
Fire of unknown origin broke out
In the warehouse occupied by the FL
dridge-Buick Automobile company in
| Spokane and damaged trucks and auto
mobiles to the extent of $4,000, it was
estimated.
All bids for remodeling buildings for
hospital purposes on Fort Walla Walla
reservation were rejected by Washing
ton authorities. and work will be done
My force account under government
supervision. HI
More than 80 Cowlitz county citizens
motored to the Western Washington
experiment station at Puyallup for
Cowlitz county day. They found the
demonstrations at the station interest
ing and helpful.
No grounds for rumors Of ill-treat-
ment of disabled war veterans under
care Of public health service officers
in the Western hospital at Fort Stella
COON could be found by q committee
which visited the hospital.
Bridging Of the East Hoquiam river
above its confluence with the main
Hoquiam river will be started by Grays
Harbor county commissioners just as
soon as the war department passes on
the plans rs submitted to them.
A public reception and welcome
home was extended by Tacoma to
| Hugh c. Wallace, ex-ambassador, upon
his arrival in the city Sunday night
from Paris, where he spent four years
in the country's diplomatic service.
The forest district comprising Clarke
and the southern parts of Skamania
and Cowlitz counties is comparatively
free from the conditions which usually
start forest fires, according to v. H.
Brewer, supervisor of the district.
More seafaring men are visiting the
Tacoma Seamen's Institute at present
than for some time past, according to
the monthly report of Superintendent
Harry Ferneybough, Of the institute.
During June 40 sailors registered at
the office.
Under q decision just handed down
by Judge jeremiah Neterer Of the
United States district court, liquor on
q vessel must be manifested as ships
stores and upon arriving at an Ameri-
can port must be locked under govern
ment seal.
Within 30 days not q jitney will be
left on the streets of Seattle. Carl II.
Reeves, superintendent of public utili-
ties, has predicted, following the news
that the state supreme court had up
held the right Of cities to regulate
motor buses. ~
A woman found dead on a highway
near Seattle, believed to have been
struck by a motorist who failed to
stop, was identified as Mrs. Catherine
Okun, 55 years old, who lived near
Kent. Pieces of q broken headlight
lens were near the body.
Captain Henry Marden, veteran Pa
cific coast steamship master and pilot
of the steamer Governor when that
vessel sank off Port Townsend last
April 1, died at a hospital In Seattle
after an illness of several months. He
was born In Stockton, Me-, in 1853.