The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-01-26

stdte supreme court directs u. w. Kuy.
kendall, head of the state public works
department, to show cause why he
should refuse to accept insurance
policies on motor vehicle passenger
carriers through the automobile in.
surance exchange of Seattle.
Initiative measures seeking to elm.
mate political parties from state poli.
tics and to repeal the state Doll tar
law were sent to Olympia for filing by
A. o. Colburn, an attorney of Spokane.
All party designations except as to
candidates for federal Offices would
be eliminated by the election measure.
it was stated.
w. II. Watts, general manager of
the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company; Mark
Austin. its agriculturist, and j. w.
Tinson, general auditor, all of Salt
Lake City, were in Toppenish last
week to meet local officials and to
plan with them survey of the bust
ness of growing sugar beets in the
Yakima valley.
Reports from men on the selling end
of the lumber and single business, in
close touch with market conditions
throughout the country. united in de-
claring better times were at hand
when officers of the Pacific Coast
Shippers association handed in their
reports at the annual meeting of stock
holders of the organization at Sc
attic
Final returns from the sale of state
lands held in all counties January 3
show that total of $209.64701 was
received, according to State Land
Commissioner Savage. OF this amount,
all but $7699.76 goes into permanent
educational funds for the support Of
the schools. Uplands brought $67,136;
timber lands, $134.S11.5. and tidelands,
$76ss.76.
Walla Walla county commissioners
have adopted new wage scale for
road workers, reducing common labor
20 cents a day, but also cutting cost
OF board 25 cents. Graders and truck
drivers draw the same scale as last
year. The schedule follows: Common
labor, 1925; gradermen, $3.50; truck
drivers. $3.50; teams, $3.50; board for
teams, $1.5O; board for men, SLIPS.
Endorsement by the Washington
State Elks' Association of the move
ment to build a memorial building at
Centralia which the American Legion
is backing at this time to commem-
crate the lives of the American Legion
men who were murdered by members
of the !. w. w. Armistice Day. 1919, was
the first act of business taken up when
the annual convention was called in
Chehalis
Approximately 6,663 acres OF land
are to be put up at auction at White
Swan on the afternoon of March 2.
The land has an appraised value Of
$364,960, according to the official
notice sent out by Supt. Don M. Carr
Of the Simcoe Agency and no tract
may be sold below its appraised value.
AS much of the land is among the
choicest acreage in the reservation,
1t is likely the bids will go higher.
Announcement was made at Olym-
pia, following a statewide conference
Of business and civic leaders called
by Governor Hart, that a special train
carrying 125 business and professional
men of the state, and refrigerator
car laden with Washington food pro-
ducts will be sent from Puget sound
to Washington, d. c., either in March
or April, for the purpose Of tender
ing q produced In Washington" ban
Quet to President Harding.
To familiarize themselves with their
Cowlitz timber holdings and the devel
opment project at Kelso, which will be
the largest timber operation in the
world, Robert A. Long, chairman of
the board of directors of the Long Bell
Lumber company, F. j. Bannister.
president; j. d. Tenant, vice-presi-
dent; r. F. Davis, traffic manager;
w. l.. Prickett and w. F. Ryder ar
rived in Kelso and spent several days
going over details of the project with
Wesley vandercook. chief engineer,
and inspecting the mill site, as well az
the extensive system of maps of the
timber lands acquired by the company.
Pacific county Agriculture Agent
Beck has just made public the re-
suits of experiments he has conducted
relative to the effects Of spraying
upon the keeping quality Of cram
berries. He has obtained some very
satisfactory results in spraying with
some species of berries. Pacific coun-
ty is one of the greatest cranberry
regions in the United States. The
berries are much sweeter than eastern