The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-08-04
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers

| The Olympia Auto Dealers aSS0cla
| ton, in conjunction with the Olympia
chamber of commerce, is out for the
| 1922 meetings of the state automobile
chamber of commerce and the auto
trade association.
Based on discovery of copper leads In
the Olympic mountains Grays Harbor
men have formed company for de-
velopment and holding the leads and
have filed articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state.
Because of a delay in the shipment
of gasoline for government purposes
from the east, the airplane patrol main
tanned by the department of conserva-
ton and development for forest pro-
lection has been suspended.
A big crowd attended the annual pic
mic of the Lewis County Pure Breeders
association, held at the Southwest
Washington fair grounds at Centralia.
The event marked the dedication Of
new stock barns recently completed at
the fair grounds.
The Dennison Fruit company of
Walla Walla has purchased the apple
crop of the j. L. Dumas Orchard COM
pany, near Dayton, paying SIPS box,
f. o. b. cars. The yield is estimated at
between 80 and 60 carloads, or between
10000 and 10000 boxes.
n Choffiald lap,fy oh 1;,.1
in a hospital at Bellingham, and J. An
derson, Canadian, was held in the
county jail charged by the police with
being his slayer as the result Of a re-
volver battle near the Canadian border
two miles east of Blaine.
A tract Oh Fords Prairie, near Cen
tralia, part Of the old Borst estate, re-
Gently purchased by popular subscrip-
ton, has been decided to the city. The
tract, marking one of the first white
settlements In southwest Washington.
will be used as a public park
The largest inheritance tax believed
ever to have been paid into the state
treasury was received by C. L. Bah
cock, state treasurer, in the amount OF
$32.313.S1 from the estate of John B.
Agen Of King county. The second. larg.
est sent in prior to that time was $25,.
600 from Spokane county.
Lumber production in western Wash
ington and western Oregon for the
week ended July % amounted to more
than 100000 feet, according to the
weekly lumber review issued by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
This volume Of production was said to
be "a per cent below normal.
The revival of the lumber industry
on Puget sound is now in sight and
several big camps, which have been
closed, now are preparing to resume
operations. 4 large number of steam
schooners which were tied up by the
marine strike are arriving and will !
again engage in the lumber carrying
trade from the northwest
In call for a conference to consider !
the preservation of the scenic resources
of Washington, State Treasurer Bah.
cock, chairman Of the state parks COM
mittee, calls attention to the value Of /
the scenic resources and urges all civic
and commercial bodies to be present at
conference Monday, August Is, in Sc
attic. The meeting is to be held under
auspices OF the state parks committee.
While shipping was at a very low ebb
In export lines from Puget sound dur
ing May, the report of Roscoe M. Drum
heller, collector Of customs of the dis
trict of Washington, shows Tacoma ex.
port business to have been $1,417,sl3
In the foreign trade and imports $780,
BOO, with collections of $55,543.23. Sc
attic exports amounted to $1,846,411.
with imports at $2,291,919 and collec-
ions $269,ess.4s.
Chairman A. ID. Lasker, of the ship
ping board, wants to interest Taco
mans in the wooden ships the govern
ment has on its hands. In letter to
E. p. Keemer, managing secretary of
he commercial club. he asks that all
persons who might have any ideas for
The utilization of the hulls for break
pontoons. sea scout vessels. or
other purposes may have their atten-
lion called to the fact that Uncle Sam
has 285 Of these ships for sale.
The outcome of the coal strike In
will depend considerably
upon the attitude taken by the mem.
oers Of the miners unions who are del.
sgates to the convention of district 10.
Federation of Miners of the United
States, which convened in Seattle Mon.
lay, according to Director of Labor and
Industry Clifford. There is no ten.
1ency on the part of the mine owners
70 force an open shop fight, said Di.
rector Clifford, and the feeling between
he men and the operators is good. The
according to Clifford, lies in
he fart that tho bood If Tho n...-,l