The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-01-04

Vancouver to Juana Rajiuga. aged
nineteen, former native Of Spain, by
County Auditor ]. l.. Garrett.
Fifteen thousand feet of fir logs have
been purchased by County Auditor A.
w. Shepard and will be hauled to the
county farm to be sawed up by able
bodied workers without employment,
in return for aid given themselves and
their families by Chelan county.
Alvin NJ. Owsley. national command
sr of the American Legion, who is tour
ing the country in the interest OF the
program adopted by the organization
at its last national convention, will
speak at the joint session of the legis-
lature at Olympia on the day it con-
yenes, January 8. Mr.. Owsley is ex.
pected to speak on legislative needs
for former service men.
Recommendation that Walter M.
Harvey, prominent Tacoma and Seattle
attorney, be permanently disbarred
from the practice of law in Washing
ton was made to the supreme court by
the state board Of law examiners In
written findings. The findings de-
clared Harvey guilty Of fraudulent and
unprofessional conduct in three separ-
ate counts, each involving one or more
separate clients.
Having raised between $4,000 and
| $4,000 by charging every student $40
| a year at the time of registration. stu
dents at Washington State College in
Pullman are at last hopeful that they
are going to have new gymnasium.
The board of regents of the state col
lege plan to petition this session OF
| the state legislature for sum equal
to that raised by the student body. pro-
viding that the fund thus obtained be
used in erecting new gymnasium and
womens building.
The complete text of the state recla-
nation act. the state land settlement
act, the constitutional provision relative
to condemnation of land for reclama-
ton purposes and the state supreme
courts decision in the land settlement
test case are to be embodied in the re-
port of the congressional house COM
mittee on the bill to appropriate $780,
900 for an investigation and report on
the Columbia basin project by the Sec
rotary of the interior, according to
Ivan e. Goodner, state reclamation en-.
gineer, who has returned from Wash
ington
Every purpose of the bill recently In.
troduced by Senator McNary for sur
yey Of the Columbia river from Van
couver to Priest Rapids and of the
Snake river from Its mouth to Asotin
is covered in engineering reports al
ready made or soon to be made to con-
gress. Secretary Of War Weeks asserts
In letter to Senator Jones Of Wash
ington, chairman of the senate com.
merce committee The McNary bill
provided for a survey to determine,
first, the feasibility Of canalization for
barge navigation; second, for irrigat-
ing and retaining adjacent lands;
third, the development of hydro-elec.
trio power.
The state of Washington will select
its first reforestation plant about the
first of the year II q cruise Of timber
now under way proves satisfactory.
according to D. A. Scott, director of
conservation and development. The
timber area which Is being considered
most favorably after q survey Of sew
eral areas throughout western Wash
ington is located in Pacific and Mason
counties. Reforestation 10 accomplish
ed best by taking second-growth timber
and protecting it from fire and other
destructive forces. according to Mr..
Scott. This policy will be pursued in
this state. az reseeding land is not
necessary.
A report at Washington, D. c., that
10000 cars of apples had been dumped
into the Columbia river by apple grow.
ers in Washington state because Of q
lack Oh cars 10 tTAuSQOEt tuoA W uloa :,
ket brought sharp denials from the
traffic managers of both the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail-
roads in kilograms from their st Paul
offices. Such a report received the
widest publicity when Smith w. Brook
hart, senator from Iowa, placed in the
record Of the senate copy OF tele-
gram he had sent to John Quincy
Adams. president of the Washington
State Farmers union, and the reply
| from Mr.. Adams, in which the latter
said Senator Brookhart>was correctly
informed as to number Of cars Of ap
pies mentioned as having been thrown
! into the river.
Though no agreement can be effect
ed with Canada to limit fishing foa
sockeye salmon next year, the state
! fisheries board is confident that new
plan will be put into effect before 1924