The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-07-21

coasting trade, is having bad effect
among Tacoma mills, which have been
forced to close down in several in
stances on account of inability to get
docks clear of lumber.
Upon returning from an afternoon
and evening spent with friends at the
Seattle Golf and Country club, Clar-
encc L. Reames, eX-special assistant
limited States attorney-general, found
Mrs. Reames lying in the kitchen of
their beautiful new home in Seattle,
dead. Gas fumes flooded the room.
There was a note for her husband on
the table.
A shipment Of large fox squirrels,
found in the Willamette valley in Ore
gon, will be placed in Grays Harbor
county woods this fall, according to
announcement made by E. S. Alvey of
Elma, chairman of the county game
commission. 1t is believed the squir-
rels will thrive on the fir cone seed,
acorns and hazelnuts which abound
in the county.
In the most important decision yet
rendered by the department Of pubic
works or the question of granting
certificates of necessity to the auto
stage lines of the state, the Grays
Harbor Stage company was barred
from running its cars between Aber-
deem and Olympia after midnight OF
July %. The order to this effect
was issued by Director of Public
Works Elgin V. Kuykendall.
Announcement was made at Olympia
by J. ID. Kuehns, formerly manager
of the Sloan shipyards and custodian
of the property since the yard has
been closed, that sale Of the properties
of the company at Olympia and at An
acortes and the Capital City Iron
works in Olympia was proceeding un-
der an order of Judge Neterer Of the
federal court in Seattle, directing
George H. Walker, as receiver, to
dispose of the property. The combin-
ed valuation of the property is In
excess of 100000.
An option has been taken on 100
acres of land in the Spokane valley
near Steno, which will be placed at
the disposal of the state land reclaim
alton board in the department Of farms
for ex-service men, according to in
formation placed before the state ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Legion by Charles s. Albert Of Spo-
kane. Options have been secured at
500 to $125 an acre, and an expendi-
ture OF about 500 an acre will be re-
quired to place water on the land, the
report of an investigating committee
shows.
That the department Of the interior
should not change the western bound
airy OF the Yakima Indian reservation,
thus removing several hundred acres
Of land now in the possession of the
state and placing them within the
reservation, until it has arranged to
give the state OF Washington other
lands in lieu OF those taken, is the
opinion of Governor Hart. expressed
In letter to Attorney-General Daugh-
erty. Governor Hart says he realizes
that he cannot plead estoppel against
the government but that as matter
OF ordinary justice the department
of the interior should reimburse the
state for the lands taken, inasmuch
as the lines were established by the
federal government itself more chan
30 years ago.
Endorsement Of the Sweet bill by
congress, which would consolidate all
governmental activities for veterans
under one department, was given by the
state American Legion in convention
at Hoquiam. The land settlement COM
mittees report was adopted, authoriz-
ing Commander Tom Swale to appoint
a committee of three to keep in active
touch with the state department Of
conservation to see that action was
obtained under the act Of the legis-
lature of 1919 for settlement on lands
of ex-service men of all wars Of the
United States. Three hundred thou
sand dollars was made available for
this purpose, but nothing had been
done, except that Sequim, Mason.
White Bluffs, Hanford, Spokane
Valley, Kettle Falls. Richland and
other cities have submitted projects
for the committees consideration.
Senators Jones and Poindexter in
a public statement have announced
that the following list represents the
names of the men whom they have
decided to recommend to the presi-
dent to fill all of the principal fed
eral offices in Washington state:
Thomas p. Revelle of Seattle, for
United States dist-'ct attorney of the
western district of Washington; Frank
r. Jeffrey of Kennewick, for United
States district attorney of the eastern
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