The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-01-18

n Everett In q liquor TounuuP
a,,c.ed nv sheriff James NJ. Mc-Culiocn
.rd his staff and were held in the
county jail under bond Of $1,000 eacn.
plans for a 100000 Providence hos
n,tal to be erected in the spring are
announced by the mother superior OF
arc Everett institution. The structure
Is 70 be four stories, Of brick construc
ton.
Hans ]. Brugge, known Throughout.
washington as the washington Har-
,,or Clam King" died at his home on
the shores of Washington Harbor'
twenty miles east Of Port Angeles
following an illness extending over
three months.
Edward C. Mills, superior court
indse at Walla Walla, was Endorsed
unanimously for appointment as UNI
ted States district Judge for the east
ern district of Washington at special
meeting of the Walla Walla County
Bar association.
p. B. Truax, vice president OF the
Seattle National bank, was indicted by
a King county grand jury on charge
of grand larceny. The Seattle Nation
al bank was named jointly with Mr..
Truax in the indictment, which was
one of three returned.
Mrs. Blanche Funk Miller, the first
woman justice of the peace to serve at
Tacoma, Friday heard her first GRIM
inal case. HI. K. Pomeroy pleaded
guilty of selling mortgaged property
and was sentenced to 30 days In jail
and assessed fine of 800.
For the year 1922 the report of ves-
sci movements at the port Of Tacoma,
Just completed by Harbormaster Row
land, shows that 1341 vessels arrived
and 1928 departed. The total tonnage
in arrivals amounted to 3,252,069 tons
and departures 3,320,520 tons.
China is the market for Walla Walla
valley flour and between 40 and so
carloads have been contracted to be
shipped this month and next from the
Eureka flour mills at Walla Walla,
Manager Welk of the mills announced.
Other mills of the valley have also re-
ceived orders.
Washing out of fifteen-foot con-
crete culvert two miles south of Nc
Cleary on the Olympia highway caused
automobiles to detour via the Kamel-
chic road between point south Of
McCleary and Olympia. 1t will be
several days before the culvert can
be reconstructed.
Acquittal of W. e. Stauffer, James
Ffyett, Ruth Fryett, ]. L. Cook and
Fred C. Robertson, and disagreement
on the eight other defendants in sub
ornation OF perjury charges resulting
from trial of Maurice p. Codd for MUIR
der last spring, was announced by
the jury at Spokane.
d. L. Callicrate, engineer of the Bur.
bank irrigation district, announces
that the district is awaiting only fed
eral approval before going ahead with
q temporary dam across the Snake
river at the Ffve-Nile rapids for irri-
CATION purposes. Estimated cost OF
the Improvement is $4,000.
Sheriffs from all over the state
gathered at Olympia Monday for the
twenty-fifth annual session of the
washington State Sheriffs' associa-
ton. The convention closed Wednes-
day and delegates left for Portland
to attend meeting of the Northwest
Association Of Sheriffs and Police.
George f. Nicholson. chief engineer
and executive secretary, and H. d.
Fhdden. promotion agent of the &c.
attic port commission were delegated
to attend the transcontinental rate
hearing in Portland january is. at
which rates on vegetable oils from
coast ports to Chicago were discussed.
A payment Of $4,000 on the 1922
prune crop was sent out last. week to
members of the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation, which in.
cludes nearly 500 prune growers in
Clarke county. The payment is the
second. The first amounted to $275.-
900. making total payments to date of
$405 ,00O
Logging operations in the recently
purchased Quinault Indian timber
tract north of Moclips have been start
ed by the M. r. Smith Lumber e Shin
gle company. The company has built
about five miles of track from Moclips
and will extend the line as the logging
progresses. The timber consists Of
about 300,000,000 feet.
The Oregon Packing company, q
uusidiary OF the California Packing
corporation, which operates a large
cannery at Vancouver. win conduct a
survey Of Clarke county fruits during
the next three weeks and II the con-
ditions warrant, will build large addi-