The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-15
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The trackless trolley bus will be
tried out in Seattle within the next
50 or 40 days.
Annual convention of the Wash
ington State Farmers union was held
at Spokane Tuesday.
Up to November 80 the state Of
Washington had shipped more than
$4,000 carloads of boxed apples.
fire did damage estimated at be-
tween $4,000 to $4,000 at the Van
CONVEX FIGURING mills at Vancouver.
The Montesano city council has TAX
en- steps to condemn every piece Of
dangerous wooden sidewalk In Monte
sano.
A yield of 100 bushels of certified
oats to the acre is the record Of Louis
Larson of Brady, in Grays Harbor
county, this year.
The Anti-Tuberculosis league Of
Waila Walla has surplus on hand of
$1749.37 over all receipts and expendi-
IQACo III ShC pdoI yCoAs
More than 1900 dozen eggs were
handled during November by the Grays
Harbor Egg association, with head
quarters In Aberdeen.
Portland, Or, was selected for the
1922 meeting of the northwest parlia-
ment by ministers of the churches of
yfrr in ooccion of Cooff1o
Steve Garkovich, a prisoner in the
Grays Harbor county jail, cut his
throat from ear to ear with razor in
IN unsuccessful attempt to take his
Me.
At the second annual sale Of Hol-
stein cattle, held at the Southwest
Washington fair grounds at Chehalis,
. total Of $14.7S5 was realized from So
head offered.
A saving Of about $50 car on lum-
bar shipments from Spokane to New
York is permitted under the reduced
freight rates which become effective
December "a.
The recent wind storm blew down
eight big fir trees across the Pacific
highway at Whipple Greek. nine miles
north of Vancouver, and each did 500
damage by breaking the pavement.
Two women are in custody In Seat
lie. accused of being involved In an
alleged plot to free prisoners at the
county jail, including James e. Ma
honey, convicted murderer Of his wife.
The Vancouver lodge of Knights Of
Pythias has voted to give $1,000 toward
the knights of Pythias home for the
aged and orphans, which is to be built
within a radius Of so miles of Van
cotlver.
At conference Of heads Of penal
institutions and asylums of Washing
ton. held in Olympia last week, it was
found that saving of $4,000 was
made In the IL institutions during the
last six months.
Thieves entered the Tum-a-Lum
Lumber company's office at Donald a
few nights ago and carried a 500
pound safe to side door, tipped it
over In the snow and blew the door
open with nitro-glycerin.
The Columbia river has been drop
ping rapidly the past few days and Is
now down to feet at Vancouver. 1t
reached about 13 feet above low-water
mark following the rain and storms
In the Columbia river gorge.
A tree blown down on the Pacific
highway at Whipple creek, near Van
couver, during the recent wind storm,
struck the top of a concrete post
squarely. The post was driven into
the ground flush with the surface.
His health broken by a recent nerv-
GUS collapse which caused his temper
airy retirement from active duty, Will
lam ]. Carr, battalion chief, one OF the
oldest members of the city fire de
partment, committed suicide at Seattle.
Contract for supplying the mechani-
CD equipment of the new veterans
hospital at old Fort Walla Walla was
awarded by the treasury department
TO the Gergh-Griggs company of Taco
ma. for $121,375. This was the lowest
bid.
An assessment of one-half of 1 per
cent of their deposits will be levied on
Ql Washington banks belonging to the
State guaranty fund to pay guaranteed
depositors In the insolvent Scandinavia
Gn-American bank of Seattle partial
dividend.
Samples Of oil submitted to the
United States bureau of mines at
Washington for analysis as having
come from an coil spring" in the base
ment of residence in Spokane, have
been pronounced by the bureau as con-
sfsting Of kerosene mixed with vege-
table oils.
In special report made by L. d.
McArdle, director Of efficiency, COW
ering charges of defalcation on the