The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-06-23
WASHINGTON STATE
. NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Kalama has organized two fire COM
panies, with G. M. Coffey as chief.
DIR. e. l.. Hixon has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Vancou-
yer.
In Clarke county there is property
worth $7,792,556 that is exempt from
taxation.
More than 1000 Eagles attended the
state convention at Aberdeen Monday
and Tuesday.
A school census shows that there are
d23 children in Odessa between the
ages of and 81.
According to Henry Drum, superin-
tendent of the Washington state game
farm. 5000 pheasants will be Matched
this year.
Lumber shipments by rail from
Aberdeen mills during May totaled TO-
177.000 feet, showing an increase Of
more than 100000 feet over April.
Between 10 and Is per cent of the
1920 wheat crop r'",',ssins in the hands
Of the farmers. acct ling to estimates
made by Walla Walla grain dealers.
William Bouck of Sedro Woolley
was reelected master of the state
grange at the annual session in Col
vile, receiving 226 of the $50 votes
cast.
Milton L. Bell, 55, a pensioned SOL
der, shot and killed himself at Spo-
kane because of grief over the disap-
pearance of his wife with his two chill
dren.
Two hundred and twenty-six stu
dents received degrees for collegiate
work at the 25th annual commence
ment of Washington State college at
Pullman.
Nothing has been heard Of the as
sassin of Benjamin Rich, Ridgefield
councilman slain in his home Sunday
night, June s. Rewards now offered
total $1,000.
Seventh Day Adventists, in annual
session at College Place, near Walla
Walla, voted $4,000 to purchase build
ings rented at Granger for the Yakima
valley academy.
All four Camp Lewis soldiers charg-
ed with the murder of Karl A. limbs,
Tacoma taxicab driver, May 8, have
been found guilty and sentenced to i'm
uri cOpmont for Iifa
Three of the four Annapolis naval
academy places to be filled this year
will be open to competition among the
young men of the 10 counties of South
western Washington.
Representative Summers has intro
duced a bill in congress appropriating
$4,000 to acquire site and contruct
building for the Indian agency on the
Yakima reervation.
Estimating that 1t costs $1.16 a year
to maintain one ground squirrel, a
campaign to eradicate the pests is be-
ing conducted in the Okanogan section
by the farm bureau.
AhC dhhudi PiCulC VI TIE Lewis
County Pure Breeders club will be
held July ~ at the southwest Wash
ington fair grounds midway between
Chehalis and Centralia.
Mrs. Mary Kinkela, aged rs, was
burned to death in her home near Ia
coma. Her clothing and bed were sat
urated with kerosene. 1t is thought
to be a case of suicide.
Declaring that bad roads caused the
auto to upset, killing Harold Howe last
October, Ruth Howe, the widow, has
started suit against Whitman county,
asking $4,000 damages. = -~'
Because he violated his oath by serv-
ing four years in the German army the
federal court at Tacoma is asked to
cancel the citizenship of Hans Fred
erick Kurth of that city.
: Maslon Johnson, aged 81, a night
Waterman at Waverly. was shot to
death by burglars whom he discovered
In the act of robbing the Waverly Au-
tomobile company's garage.
An improvement district has been
formed at Okanogan and plans com
pleted for grading and surfacing and
laying concrete sidewalks on nine
blocks of the residence section.
Pioneers from all parts of central
Washington attended the 18th annual
reunion and picnic of the Alder Creek
Pioneer association, held at Cleveland,
In eastern Klickitat county, Tuesday.
Grieving over the death of her hus-
band, Mrs. Anna Page of Seattle walk
ed into the women's Mushroom at the
Tacoma interurban station and killed
herself by slashing her throat with a
razor.
Private L. Have rx died at Camp
Lewis from injuries received when an
army bus crashed into a stone bastion
!. at the camp entrance. There were 30
soldiers in the car, and II were in.
iured.
Members of the Rinehart clan gath