The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-02-23
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
,nooriant Occurrences Of Past
week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.


work has commenced on Gle Elums
vster system. .ouo,r mos
big success. More than $4,000 was
nised. ,ro.,,ue.on uorticul.
Aoaociation held its annual con-
!, at Mount Vernon: =,
n Zimmerman, so, fell off a
.. =, into the Washougal river near
rr and was drowned,
proposed military training in hisn
.,.Is IN Seattle was rejected by a
.,;mo,s vote of the Seattle school
board Moi,
.,,sst business houses, entailins a
..oDerty and stock loss of about
,s5ooo -,
uore than so dairy cows have been
ahmed into the White Salmon valley
.,,s winter, mostly of the Guernsey
and Holstein breeds.
The horticultural inspector at White
salmon reports that fruit trees have
mi been injured during the winter
md growers are looking for another
record crop of apples. @
A party of IS Chinese from the arms
conference at Washington, d. c., left
Seattle Saturday on the steamship
Pine Tree State for the orient.
The Superior Portland Cement COM
many plant at Concrete, after a shut
down Of three months, resumed opera
lions Monday, employing 300 men.
Governor Hart has notified Cover
nor Olcott Of Oregon that he will at
tend in person the so-called narcotics
drug conference to be held in Portland
March l.
Joseph Mitchell won $4,000 from
Jacob E. Phinney, his neighbor at
Zelda, in $4,000 damage suit for
The alienation OF Mrs. Mitchelps af-
iections.
Major-General George w. Goethals,
Who has been checking the plans for
the Columbia basin irrigation project,
d in California. He will return to
Spokane next week to resume his
work there.
Location and plans for the proposed
new bridge to span the Willapa river,
At Raymond, as part of the Ocean
Beach highway project have been APP
proved officially
Lumber cargo shipments from Graya
Harbor for January, 1922, were more
than double those Of January of last
year, according to a report by the
Grays Harbor Stevedore company. The
total this year was 55,413,OOO feet, as
compared with 21,444.O0O in 1921.
No women will be employed as
mfest fire lookouts in the Pacific
northwest this year, according to an.
houncement received from the district
lofesters office. The lack of employ.
nent among men was the reason given
lor excluding women from the serv.
re this year.
Eight oyster companies operating
Va Willapa harbor have combined and
formed the Toke Point Oyster com.
~ny' with capital of 100000. The
Ae~ concern will carry on enlarged
painting operations and attempt to re.
sO'er the industry from the reverses
" tne past few years.
another Indication of Tacoma's
'.sauy growth in ocean commerce was
sven IN the January report of the
.a'Oormaster's office. The figures
snow l2S deep-see arrivals, with a total
uaaase Of 2s3,s45, as compared to "a
.''vals in January of 1921. with .
wal tonnage of 1882.
MAI Carlos P Munson, general in.
!. .,sc'or Of the U. S. veterans bureau.
,~s, a inspection of the buildings of the
ss','c health service hospital at WalIa
wan ssla' said that it is likely that ma.
s as : can be admitted after Nav !
-. - mat time, he said, 1s1 patients
: oe taken care of there.
.r 'scruise of the timber in the east.
h r, aases of Thurston county is to
.,,s Undertaken within a few weeks Nv
,on,., s IN the employ of the county
. d anss The cruise is expected
COUNT '.s the timber valuations in the
,s sa,s and to add over a million and
''Operty. inc 'ouhty's taxable