The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-11-10

shipped east as fast as packed.
Cargo shipments from Grays Har
Dor fell off more than 100000 feet
during October. Forty vessels cleared
the port, carrying S6,123,0SS board feet
C. Dahl and Albert Dahl, brothers
each apparently between 25 and 80
years old, were found dead in hotel
at Renton. Death apparently was due
to gas poisoning.
1t is estimated that fully rs per cent
Of the cranberry crop of western
Washington has been sold. Most of
the crop went to the eastern and mid
die western states.
1t cost S153 day during October
to provide food for a family of five
in Seattle, according to statistics an
nounced by the Loyal Legion of Log.
gers and Lumbermen.
Patients may enter the new United
States public health hospital at Fort
Walla Walla some time in January,
Alexander Blumberg, supervising
architect has announced.
A contract was let to A. N. Barrett
to build a bridge across the Klickitat
river at the mouth of Surveyor creek
by the Mount Adams Highway asso-
citation. Construction will begin at
once.
A course in domestic science for
men students at Spokane university
was recently established. One hun
bred men are taking turns at prepar-
ing food, waiting on tables and wash
ing dishes.
A fatal accident occurred near Gen.
tralia at the Walville mill, when log
train jumped the track, splitting it's
load and one of the logs striking T.
zock, who was standing nearby. Death
was instantaneous.
A copper vein about 80 feet in width
which can be traced for a distance of
more than two miles, has been discov-
cred in the upper Quinault and is now
being tapped by a Hoquiam copper
mining organization.
The box factory of the Laurel Box
company near White Salmon burned
TO the ground the night of October
q. About 100000 apple boxes and
many thousands of feet of box lum-
Der also were consumed
One of the largest pumpkins seen in
western Washington for many years is
on display in the office of the South
east Washington Fair association in
Chehalis. 1t is 22x2S inches in size
and weighs ninety-five pounds.
This week is "odd jobs week" in
Spokane. The committee on unem-
ployment issued an appeal to the pub
lie to help relieve the distress of men
unable to get work by having their
annual repair work done at once.
The United Construction company,
at work on the Pacific highway be-
tween La Center and Woodland,
practically has completed all team
and truck work and about three or
four weeks work for steam shovel
will finish grading. A number of
dangerous curves have been eliminat-
ed and the highway widened at var
ious places.
To obtain right of way for the
North Bank highway near B!ngen In
Klickitat county condemnation suits
have been started against Theodore
Saksdorf, Louise Suksdorf, his wife,
and Pauline Waidt, in one action and
against John p. Egan and Margaret
Egan, his wife, in another action.
More than $4,000 head of Klickitat
county sheep, that have been enjoy
ing the summer pastures in the Column
bia national forest reserve near Mount
Adams, are being driven to winter
quarters in the lower ranges. The loss
of flocks from raids of predatory ami
mails this summer has been unusually
heavy.
Maintenance OF the building activity
which has marked 1921 in Tacoma is
shown by the building permits rec
ord for October. In October, ordinarily
a month when building drops low on
account of weather conditions, 3S4
permits were taken out for S251, 500
worth Of construction, nearly $4,000
better than for the same month of
1920.
Divorce DEGREES entered in Tacoma
In cases in which enlisted men and
officers at Camp Lewis were plain
tiffs, may be revoked in a number of
instances as the result of a decision
made by Judge Clifford of the superior
court. The gist of the ruling is that
one year of service at Camp Lewis
does not constitute the legal residence
in the state required as prerequisite
to suit for divorce in such cases.
Federal officials, including Customs
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