The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-07-20
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

damage to the wheat crop around Ritz
Vile.
Il Agitation for the consolidation o
Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosm0polil
has been started.
4; While unloading hay on his farm
near Bellingham, Andrew Ostrand
aged fifty-six, fell. breaking his neck
Il Mrs. w. H. Kelly Of Olympia, assist
ant secretary to Governor Hart, hal
resigned her post, effective August l
i P. H. VAIL. employed at the Dono
van-DuBois logging camp ct CASCADES
was crushed and killed beneath q load
of logs.
/ Narcotics valued at $4,000 were seiz
ed at Seattle by federal customs In
spectors searching the Blue Funnel
liner Talthibius.
Preparatory work for the opening
of the 18th annual Grays Harbor coun
ty fair at Elma, September 2, 10 now
well under way.
The Home Water & Ice company
of Mount Vernon will next week begin
| to install q $4,000 filtering plant in
the water system.
The Skagit County Fair at Burling
ton will be featured this year by horse
racing, the race program being an
nounced as the most promising in sew
eral years.
| The Washington State Federation of
Labor, In session at Bremerton. re-
| jected by q vote Of 10 to 48 the pro-
posal to affiliate with the farmer
labor party.
Permission was granted the Ames
Shipbuilding & Drydock company by
the Seattle port commission to extend
it's present wharfing facilities at Seat
tie 500 feet.
J. NJ. Hunt, q carpenter, died at .
Seattle hospital from injuries receiv-
ed when he was struck by D. b. Baer,
former member Of the Seattle po-
lice department.
Ninety-five officials and. statesmen
Of the Weyerhaeuser Sales company
are on q tour of the state visiting var
ious properties Of the wsysrhaeuser
Timber company.
With return Of warm weather, 40
companied by stiff west to northwest
winds, forest fire conditions have be-
come much worse, according to +. d.
Pape, state forester.
The annual convention Of the Wash
ington State Press association was
held at Pullman with more than 100
editors and publishers. mainly Of
weekly newspapers, in attendance.
Alvie Burton Carrick. sixty-one. died
at Vancouver from injuries received
when gate post struck by q car
driven by Mrs. Ed Carrick, his sister.
in-law, toppled over and struck him on
the head
Resolutions urging IN International
war on the traffic In narcotics featur-
ed the closing session Of the twenty
first annual convention Of the Wash
ington State Federation Of Labor, held
In Bremerton.
Further damage from beaver col
onies has been reported from the
Touchet district In Walla Walla coun-
ty, where they are reported to be dam
ming streams and causing fields and
gardens to overflow.
Prospective sites at Spokane for
government hospitals for ex-service
men, were. inspected inspected y c155:.opsll
Charles Forbes. head Of the United
States veterans bureau, who ID on
. tour Of the Pacific coast.
To combat forest fire that threat
ened to destroy much of the big tim
Der in the Camp Lewis reservation, |
virtually every available soldier In |
camp was pressed into the freight
ing force in an effort to check the |
disappearing flames.
Guernsey breeders Of the state will |
meet in Seattle July Is, before leav.
ing for the islands Of San Juan and
Island counties. They will visit the
large Guernsey dairy farms in these
districts during their three-day trip.
It has been announced.
Selah school directors have decided |
In view Of strike conditions, not to
attempt to buy coal for the school dis |
trict at present and instead placed an
order for moistened and compacted
saw dust, which will be burned. The /
district expects to save about 5000.
Forty-five whales represent the
Grays Harbor catch to date for this |
season, according to Superintendent |
Kulger Of the Pacific American Whal.
Ing company at Bay City. OF the catch
IS were humpbacks, nine finbacks and
one sperm whale. The season ends
between October and Is.
The Canadian cabinet Has issued an
order in council prohibiting American
fishing boats from nurcha ain = ho1< &,