The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-11-17
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The state has purchased $4,000
worth of Wilbur school bonds at par
with per cent interest.
Miss Emma j. Duncan has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Castle Glen, a
new postoffice in Grant county.
A truckload of 5000 knives and 5000
forks was stolen from the quarter
masters department at Camp Lewis.
M. C. Hayden. postmaster, has been
appointed receiver for the Farmers
State bank Of Lind, which was closed
three weeks ago.
Postal savings in Spokane show an
increase of $41S1 for October over
September. Deposits November 1 were
l26,634 higher than in 1920.
The two county bridges over the
Yakima river at Ellensburg, known
as the Upper and Lower bridges, have
been declared unsafe for traffic.
In raid on the steamer Shinyo
Maru at Seattle by customs officials,
500 quarts of Scotch whiskey were
seized, said to be worth about $4,000.
After the livestock show at Portland
the next large exposition of the north
west will be the Pacific Northwest
Fruit exposition to be held in Seattle
November 81 to rs.
Klickitat county oranges will have
an exhibit of Illickitat products on dis
play in the basement of the Portland
auditorium during the national grange
convention this month
Harold r. Quinn, 81, marine fire
man. was shot and probably fatally in
jured at Seattle, as the result. accord
ing to police, of a fight following a
drinking party In hotel.
Preparations for the annual 1922
field meet for Klickitat county schools
have been made early this year. The
meet takes place annually in May and
will be held this year at Bickleton.
News of the introduction by Sena-
tor Poindexter for an appropriation Of
100000 for modern lightship for
0rays harbor has been received by
marine men with great satisfaction.
Through alleged laxness on the part
Of city officials. no municipal tax can
be levied at Springdale for 1922. The
budget should have been prepared in
September. but was allowed to go by
default.
Public ownership Of the street rail-
ways of Spokane is the only solution
Of the present street car-jitney situa-
t!on In that city, in the opinion of
Oliver c Erickson. member of the Sc
attic city council.
OIL seepage, heavier than has ever
flowed from the well. caused the drill
ers at the Alfalfa operations last Fri
day to cease drilling and to begin set
ting the casing to dry the hole and
give the oil q chance to flow
The Washington potato crop showed
decrease on November / of $1,000
bushels, as compared with October 1,
according to the monthly crop report
Issued by the bureau Of markets. The
crop is placed at 7.425.0OO bushels
Rather than submit to arrest, j. G.
Shelton, so, committed suicide near
Colville by shooting himself with
rifle. He was homesteader and his
body was found near a still where he
had been making moonshine whiskey.
Lumber production In western Wash
ington has developed until it has
reached point only 13 per cent below
normal for mills operating, according
to the weekly lumber review issued
by the West Coast Lumbermen's asso-
citation.
From the appropriation of $4,000
900 set aside for forest roads and trails
IN the roads bill signed by the presi-
dent Friday, Washington will receive
for primary roads in national forests
for the balance of this fiscal year.
t189,S70.
Joseph M. Campbell, aged rs, a
pioneer of the northwest, was found
dead last Sunday night at his home
In Chewelah. Campbell mined at Silver
City, Idaho, in the early days and stalk
cd water right claim on Spokane
falls In 1870.
Substitution Of a scent tax on gaso-
line for the / IL mill general highway
tax on all real and personal property
In the state, now In force for the same
purpose. has been protested by the
Aberdeen chamber of commerce execu-
tive committee.
Henry M. White, commissioner of
immigration at Seattle, has been re-
suested by the president to forward
his resignation. appointment of
Luther Weed Of Coupeville to succeed
Mr.. White is expected to follow imme-
diately upon the latter's resignation.
Armistice day was celebrated in Sc
attic with a parade, In which posts of
the American Legion and various mill