The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-29
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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reduce salaries of city employees.
| The Seattle municipal street rail
way during November made a profit
of $14,111.41.
OF the 194,983 automobiles in the
state, 22,375, or about IL per cent, are
in Spokane county.
] w. Henry Bassett, builder of the in
ternational peace arch at the boundary
line at Blaine, Wash, died at Victoria,
B. G.
| Spokane is being flooded with CO.
caine and morphine this winter, ac-
cording to statements by federal of
| ficials
Nearly 1000 men employed in Grays
Harbor logging camps were released
last week for their annual Christmas
vacation.
That they might enjoy a Christmas
at home, more than 20 boys were
paroled from the state training school
at Chehalis.
10 "A AA6hS ~ lOICC IuC
traction company to reduce street car
fares, now cents, will b made by the
city council.
The price Of fresh milk has advanc-
ed cents quart in Aberdeen and
Hoquia0! following the end of a re-
cent milk war.
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principal business block of the place.
The damage is estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Reopening Of the Hoquiam Sash &
Door Company's plant for the manu-.
facture Of doors is promised shortly
after the first of the year.
Ruth and Donald Dawson, aged 3
and 2 years. respectively, were burn
ed to death in their home at Kopiah,
nine miles east of Centralia.
Seventy-five school directors from
all parts Of the county met at Walla
Walla and organized the Walla Walla
county school directors association.
Otto Buesch, Lewis county game
warden, has just received $4,000 east
ern brook trout eggs. which have
been placed in the hatchery at Dryad.
Every logging camp in Whatcom
county has ceased operation on ac-
count of the holidays. Practically all
of them, however, will resume cutting
in January.
The resignation Of L. H. Darwin,
state supervisor. of fisheries, placed
in the hands of Governor Hart several
ago; has been accepted to take
effect December 80.
Believed to have been asphyxiated
by carbon, monoxide gas from the en-
CINE of his motor truck, Nels Dahl
man, age 50, was found dead in his
garage at Medical Lake. 4
Closer cooperation between Amer
can and Canadian customs officials
10 check smuggling both ways was
he purpose of conferences carried on
n Seattle recently.
It is not necessary to have a hunt.
ng license on your person when hunt
ng, II you have bought license, ac-
'ording to memorandum decision
given by Judge John M. Wilson in
superior court at Olympia.
c. ID. Cunningham, Washington state
commander of the American Legion,
will begin tour of the state about
February 1, In the course of which he
will meet the members of 1863 Legion
'osts in their own communities.
Mrs. Susan F. Abbott, born almost
J century ago, died at Walla Walla
Il infirmities due to old age. She was
a years old and had lived in the
northwest more than 20 years, 60 Of
which were spent in Walla Walla.
The department of public works /.
las granted stage lines in Whitman
county permission to suspend service
n order that the operators might COM
'ly with an order of the county COM
nissioners closing the roads to stage
raffic.
complete returns from the special
lection in Grant county on the pro-
'osed Columbia river irrigation and
am project show that there were 405 j
otes for and $40 against. A two
birds vote was necessary to carry
he measure.