The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-06-29

State school lands aggregating many
thousands of acres and an unknown
acreage Of supplementary school lands
in Grays Harbor county have been
leased for an eastern firm by its two
Aberdeen representatives.
Railroads operating in this state
have virtually agreed to make a gem
eral reduction in state freight rates
July / in conformity with the recent
order of the Interstate commerce COM
mission recommending a horizontal
decrease approximating 10 per cent
In interstate freight rates.
Gasoline tax returns for May were
$11. 900 higher than for April. Fred ].
Dibble, director of licenses, has an
nounced. The total for the month was
$s3.31s.s5. az against $72,339.95 col
lected in April. The total for the II
months since the tax became effective
was $783,472. June returns will put
the gasoline tax receipts for the year
we'll over ss50.o00.
Five thousand Spokane children Vim
march in the American legion Fourth
of July parade and city organizations,
mothers, fathers, school teachers and
the children themselves are working
hard to make the novel stunt sue
cess.
A resolution protesting against the
proposed wearing of the American
colors by Jack Dempsey in his COM
ing bout with Bill Brennan" was un-
animously adopted by Austin-Rees-
Wheeler post of the American Legion
Of Ellensburg.
Allen King, 3-year-old son of s. p.
King, a Walla Walla attorney, was
drowned when he fell into small
stream running past his home and
was washed into culvert running
under the street, his body becoming
lodged in the culvert.
j. X. Smalley was awarded $1,000
damages against the city of Pullman
by a jury in the superior court at
Colfax in his suit for damages alleged
to have been caused by the Pullman
sewage tank, situated near Smalleys
properly. Smalley sued for $4,000.
1t is announced by officials. of the
Wenatchee Southern railroad that the
condemnation suit started by the
Great Northern railway involving
strip of land 80 feet wide and 1900
feet long through the L. H. Corle
place south of Wenatchee has been
settled out of court.
Mrs. Harriet de Beaumont died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. e.
Curl of Dayton last week. Mrs. de
Beaumont celebrated her Tooth birth
day anniversary June s, and was one
of the most remarkable characters
ever known in Eastern Washington.
She possessed a keen mind and re-
tanned her faculties until the last.
Washington will receive from the
l0ucTdl SONSTuuCuI III IOdu COuotA wv.
ton in the state $735,806 during the
fiscal year beginning July 1; 1856, 800
during the next fiscal year, aud ST.
1O3,71O during the year following. This
is made certain by the adoption Of a
three-year federal bodybuilding pro-
gram in the postoffice appropriation
bill, signed by President Harding.
C. H. Riley and Charles Butt were
found guilty at Port Angeles of MUIR
der in the first degree for the shoot
ing of Ray Light during holdup Of
the Discovery Bay Logging company,
March 26. The jury, after deliberat-
ing seven hours, recommended life i'm
prisonment. Light, former service
man, was playing cards with other en-
ployes of the lumber camp when two
highwaymen accosted them. The fatal
shooting followed.
King county IL not liable for personal
injuries suffered by juror in super
ior court while in the care Of bailiffs,
the supreme court decided, upholding