The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-06-22
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The delinquent tax list of Clarke
county this year is the largest in the
history of the county.
Mount Baker Lodge No. Sc, F. & A.
NJ, of Mount Vernon, celebrated its
fortieth anniversary last Friday night.
John d. Adams has been elected
mayor by the Othello council to sue
coed Ivor U. Struppler, who died re-
GENTLY
The state reclamation department
has filed suit at Wenatchee to adjudi-
cate water rights on creeks flowing
into Lake Chelan. e~.. ~.
Due to largely increased building
activities and to road construction, Ia
Dor conditions in Washington are bet
ter than they have been for year.
AS protest against the flat $3.50
a year cut in salaries, teachers in the
Seattle public schools are planning a
move to recall School Director E. F..
Taylor. Ea T.
G.. F. Mann felled tree in his place
near Castle Rock, which, cut IL feet
above the ground, measured 212 feet
in length. The stump measured II
feet across
A log building, the first house erect
ed in Chesaw and which has been used
for every purpose but that of church,
is being torn down to make room for
q modern building.
Five members of boys and girls
clubs, of Grays Harbor county, went
to Pullman to take weeks course in
agriculture. Bankers Of the county
are paying all the expenses.
The state department of public
works has sent to Attorney General
L. L. Thompson a long list of public
service companies which have been
delinquent in filing 1921 reports.
Aberdeen was host this week to
more than 1000 delegates to the state
g. A. r. and allied conventions OF
the 10th annual encampment of the
department of Washington and Alaska
Plans for a petition to call a spe-
cial election to organize an irrigation
district to water 10000 acres in the
Spokane valley are enthusiastically ap-
proved by Spokane business interests.
At meeting of the directors of the
Okanogan Growers Union resolution
was passed recommending that grow
ers sign up to carry on an advertising
campaign for Wenatchee-O kanogan ap-
pies.
Benefit done by a rain that fell last
week in the eastern end of,Grant coun-
ty is estimated at $15O,OO0. Crops are
reported to have been assured at
Wheeler. Krupp and Warden by the
downfall.
Mrs. Minerva Alice Spencer, seventy
two, who as a girl lived in Kansas
and Missouri during the troubles pre-
ceding the Civil war, died after fifty
nine years continuous residence in
Walla Walla.
{ Chelan will have a three-day cele-
bration on July 8, and 5. The cele-
bration is to be under the auspices of
the American legion. There will be
horse racing, baseball, water sports
and fireworks.
Because of diverse and occasionally
contradictory reports on the wheat
crop prospects in the Inland Empire,
Spokane bankers are making special
efforts to secure authentic informa-
ton from the various sections.
Approximately 1000 Moose from all
parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana and British Columbia visited
Walla Walla for the three day ses-
sion of the northwest district conven-
ton of the Loyal Order of Moose.
A man known as DOC" Wynne, an
employee at the Kooken Brothers saw
mill at Dryden, is in jail at Wenat-
chez. charged with planting dynamite
with the intent to wreck the ma
chinery. The mill was wrecked last
week.
Two million pounds of the 1922 crop
of Clarke county prunes have already
been sold by the Washington Growers
Packing Corporation at from 6 to IL
Cents pound and the association has
withdrawn the prunes from the mar
ket. ~
The resignation of w. Hanson, state
dairy inspector, with headquarters in
Seattle, was announced Saturday by
Director e. l.. French of the depart
iment of agriculture. Mr.. Hanson will
enter the creamery business at Mount
vernon.
That she was held captive six months
on fishing boat, is the story told
IBremerton authorities by Grace Rah,
al l.