The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-23

| VIII PrUVio0 oOUO more horsepower for
use on Grays harbor will be started
at once, II industries and people of
the community give approval to plan
of the Federal Power company, own
er of the Grays Harbor Railway &
Light company.
For signal services to Spanish liter.
azure and culture, the decoration
the Royal Order of Isabella. tn
Catholic" has been conferred on
George Wallace Umphrey, associate
professor of Romantic languages at
the University of Washington, by Al
fonso XIII, king of Spain.
Certificate of public convenience
and necessity for passenger and
freight stage service, between White
Salmon and euler, White Salmon and
Glenwood and White Salmon and
Snowden. and for express and freight
service between White Salmon and the
White Salmon depot, was issued by
the department of public works to the
Weyer Stage company of White Sal.
mon.
In hope that the war department,
through congressional appropriations.
will be able to establish a citizens
military training camp this summer,
officers Of the 96th division are pre-
pairing to assemble at Camp Lewis
from July 81 until August 25. If the
appropriations are made, approximate
ly 1000 students from the northwest
will receive instruction at Camp
Lewis.
Grain growers, dealers and millers
who met in Walla Walla with E. L.
French, director of agriculture, went
on record as favoring reduction of the
basic test weight for No. white club
to So pounds from so. Growers also
favored changing the rules SO that
wheat testing over So pounds would
carry a premium to offset the discount
when wheat grades under the test
weight.
Il
elected president of the Washington
state chamber of commerce by the
board Of directors following adjourn
ment of the meeting of the chamber
at Olympia. He succeeds DR.. Francis
A. Laviolette of Bremerton Colonel
P. H. Weyrath Of Walla Walla, was
elected vice-president for eastern
Washington and F. d. Case of Wenat-
chez treasurer.
j In response to request made by
Puget sound and Alaska fish packers,
northern transcontinental railroads
have established reduced freight rate
on east-bound shipments of picked
herring. effective April "a. according
to advices, received. The present rate
Of IS cents a hundred pounds from
north Pacific points to Chicago will
be extended to all points in Pittsbure
and Buffalo territory.
Manufacture of S0,590.443 feet OF
lumber in the week ended March II
and shipments of 76.213,927 feet in
the same period, breaking previous
weekly records for 1921 and 1922, were
reported by 1874 mills affiliated with
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa
ton. Sales for the week were 67,727.
927 feet, only slightly below the record
bookings for any week since 1920, &C
cording to the report.
Abandonment of the Tacoma Rail
J way & Power company's short line
from Tacoma to Puyallup looms as q
} possibility. following the statement Of
r. T. Sullivan, general manager. thai
II inspection of the trestle over the
Puyallup river indicates the necessity
of rebuilding it, the company will dis
J continue the line rather than under
! go the expense. It would cost ap
proximately $4,000 to build new
trestle, said Mr.. Sullivan.
! The town of Nelson may go int
| the hands Of q receiver IL the advics
of Attorney-General Thompson Il
, Charles A. Johnson, prosecuting at
I torney of Okanogan county. is follow
, ed. Incorporation Of the town as q
town Of the fourth class was set aside
: by the supreme court recently because
, of flaws in the proceedings, leaving
: the ex-town treasurer with $1,000 il
taxes collected that he does not know
{ what to do with. Seeking way out
: the prosecuting attorney asked the at
torney-generars advice.
: An outbreak Of rabies is raging II
= the eastern section of the state. &C
: cording to the department Of agricul
S ture. Reports from field agents wer'
] said to indicate a similarity OF thu
a epidemic with that Of 1915. durini
8 which 100 persons were bitten b!
rabid animals in five Rocky mountain
e states before it was curbed. Spread
: of the disease was attributed in tn