The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-04-28

are planning u plant siudii IL uitS a
a result of the erection of the cannery
A weather-beaten suitcase discover
ed near Dryad was found to contain
a lot of valuable papers that Werf
stolen from the Pc Ell State ban
when it was robbed some months ago
Tacoma's first shipment of goods tc
Germany since before the war left re
Gently on the steamer Bakersfield. The
shipment was consigned to Hamburg
and consisted of 400 tons of merchaE
disc.
Spokane ranked as No. 101 among
cities of the United States on January
1 in amount of postal savings depos
It's, according to announcement OF the
postoffice department. Spokane's de-
posts were $155,141.
Authorization of call for bids to be
opened January 20 for 100000
block of bonds of the $11 100000 issue
provided for in the soldiers bonus act
has been made by the state board of
finance at Olympia.
At a recent meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Far West Livestock COM
pany, recently organized at Centralia,
it was announced that the company
had made profit of 33 1-3 per cent in
the last three months.
Further showing the growth of Ia
coma and it's financial position, that
city has gone from thirty-third place
in the amount of postal savings on de-
post one year ago to the fifteenth city
in the United States.
Credit men of the states OF Wash
ington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana
have been invited to attend the an
nual meeting of the Northwest Credit
Mems association to be held in Spo-
kane February % and "a.
After being declared by government
chemists to be unfit for food 1893
cases of canned salmon at Seattle was
libeled by the federal government. The
salmon was shipped from Unakwik,
Alaska, to Seattle last August. :.
At a recent council of Yakima In
dams held at Toppenish, Francis A.
Garrett of Spokane, United States dis
trict attorney, was formally adopted
into the tribe and given the name of
Chilwit-Wop-Souk, meaning "T h e
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February "a has been set by the
state supreme court for hearing the
appeal of seven I. w. W., convicted at
Montesano last March of second de-
gree murder for the killing of Warren
o. Grimm, Armistice day victim, in
Centralia.
While at work cleaning away earth
from slide on the Northern Pacific
tracks mile west of Grays Harbor,
D. J. Ferry and s. R. Reno, two work
men, were buried underneath and so
badly injured they were taken to a
Hoquiam hospital.
Prices have been reduced by some
of the larger restaurants of Spokane.
Cuts of from to 10 cents an order
on ham and eggs, steaks, chops and
fish were noted on many restaurant
menus. Pie and other pastries were
also reduced an average of cents an
order
v. L. Stevens of the Seattle police
force is dead, Clayton Dodge, Fl, al
legged outlaw, is expected to die and
Warren Mooney, 10, his companion, is
slightly wounded as the result of gun
battle in Ballard between police and
four alleged outlaws, all of whom were
captured.
Former State Senator George B.
Lamping, now a member of the Seattle
the commission will seek passage of
an amendment to the law creating port
districts, to make funds available for
constructing port facilities in free port
zones in case the federal government
should establish such free zones with
in the state. @&
An investigation of contract work on
the Curtis street road, between Aber-
deem and Cosmopolis, paving Of which
was completed two months ago by
the Aberdeen Paving company, was
ordered by the Aberdeen city council.
The road has not been opened to traf-
fic and city authorities allege that the
cement used in the job was Of so poor
quality that portions of the paving al
ready are disintegrating.
The Indian appropriation bill carries
an appropriation of s25O,OOo for con.
tinuing construction and enlargement
of the Wapato irrigation project on
the Yakima Indian reservation, which
the commissioner of Indian affairs de-
clared in testimony. before the house
committee is the most successful irri.
cation project in the United States.
For the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation
system an appropriation of $4,000 is
made and for the Ahtanum system,
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