The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-07-20


Tacoma In June showed SO per CEN
| increase over the same period iasl
year. according to figures compiieo
by w. q. Rowland, harbormaster
i C. w. Pugsley, assistant secretary
Of agriculture, is to arrive in Spokane
July 30. for tour of the state. After
Waiting the State College at Pullman
and the University of Idaho at MOS
COW, Mr.. Pugsley will make an auto
mobile tour of the Yakima valley ano
| go to Seattle and Portland.
! Subscriptions amounting to $25ot
have been made at Aberdeen toward
$4,000 fund started toward erection
of a statue Of Captain Robert Gray
discoverer of Grays Harbor. and much
interest is taken in the movement
The statue will be the gift OF Aber'
deem and Hoquiam residents.
Tacomans will have scent carfare
after August /, as the result of the &C.
ton of the city council and Mayor A.
v. Fawcett in granting permits to E.
H. Sandmire OF Spokane to operate
II buses in Tacoma The move is the
latest made by Mayor Fawcett in his
fight for scent street-car fare.
The owner of an apartment building.
having no knowledge of defects in the
installation of an elevator and being
guilty Of no willful wrong, or fraud, or
palpable negligence, cannot be held
liable for damages for injury of the
elevator operator due to the breaking
of the cable, the supreme court has
held
The cornerstone of the administra-
tive building of the new capitol group
at Olympia will be laid on September
9th. The ceremonies will be in charge
of the worshipful grand lodge Of Free
and Accepted Masons of Washington.
with the most worshipful grand mas
ter, James Mccormack, Of Tacoma, In
charge.
New forest fires of serious proper
tons were reported throughout the in
land empire last week, with fire
which had been burning nearly two
weeks in the Aladdin district out of
control and burning at will through
the Deep creek, Meadow creek and
Meadow lake districts Is miles north
Of Spokane
Many Grays Harbor mills. with an
acute log shortage, are faced with the
necessity to close down at least tenn.
porarily. Log supplies are running ex-
tremely low for many of the mills.
The reason given IL that loggers are
either idle or are operating only part
time, due to the menace OF fire con-
ditions, and normal logging activities
are being held up until after q good
rain.
Captain A. G. Sullivan, suspended
secretary OF the Seattle police. depart
ment, was dismissed from the force
by Chief Severyns at the direction of
Mayor Brown. Captain Sullivan is un-
der bond on charge Of grand larceny
In connection with the alleged mis-.
appropriation Of municipal funds and
county officials are engaged in
check-up Of other alleged Irregularities
In his accounts.
At the close of the first six-week
term of the summer session OF the
State Normal school at Ellensburg,
sixteen students completed the full
two-year course and are entitled to
diplomas. and eleven finished the one.
year course and are entitled to certi.
fcates enabling them to teach. A
large number will, be awarded d.
plomas and certificates at the close
Of the summer session in August.
Standardization Of clothing and
shoes for inmates Of all state institu-
lions. Ill Of which will be manufacture
ID and tailored at the Institutions
themselves. was srrapssd It the CON |
ference Of Institutional superintend-
,nts and heads Of the state depart
nent Of business control. meeting at |
Walla Walla- Confusion in ordering |
md in manufacture will be eliminated
Ind new economies made possible.
Approximately two weeks will be r. |
luired to complete the official canvass
Il each Of the two initiative measures
unlimited with petitions to Secretary
4 State Hinkle. As the polltax repeal
petitions are being checked first, 1t |
VIII b shout . month before the can
,ass Of the petitions on the 30-10 school |
MEASURE petitions 10 completed. A
arge checking force II working on the
.anvass, which involves much work.
With receipt through the mail OF /
Jenator Miles Poindexter's declaration
4 candidacy for reelection, the first
lay Of filing ct the office Of ]. Grant
Iinkle. secretary Of state, closed with
hree candidates In the field for United
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