The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-01-25
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST

lmportant Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled tor
Our Readers.
The washington state council Of car
penters held four-day convention in
Seattle.
nenosits in Davenport banks have
Increased $3s.117 since the cali of
lsaptember Is, 1929.
Seventy real estate loans. asgregat-
ing ,s2,3so were made in 1922 by the
lpu,lman Savings Z Loan association.
Nrs Grace J. Moran. age 7S. who
same to whitman county from Califor-
a. IN 1884, 10 dead at her farm home
south Of Colfax.
n, 1874 male students attending the
Warrington state college At Pullman.
- per cent are said to Be earning all
~ part Of their expenses.
The Port Angeles foundry, operating
:. Port Angeles slightly over = year,
a. ussu forced to larger quarters and
sv,n build plant soxso feet
The recent frsshet took heavy toll
.au the North Bank highway west Of
steveuson, damage to bridges and cul-
yerts alone reaching more than $4,000.
The proposed union Of the Camas
and Washougal districts into one high
school district WAS overwhelmingly de-
mated 1t Camas, the vote being COL
- s..
Robbers burned their way into the
ssie in tho State Bank OF Fairfield
and escaped with about $4,000 in lib
erty bonds. negotiable notes, jewelry
and cash.
Dorothy Shelton, 4-year-old Eureka
iairl, 10 in walla Walla hospital. hav-
ing shot herself through the eye by
the accidental discharge Of .22-cali-
Der rifle she was playing with.
The annual report OF the secretary
Of the Adams county farm loan as
ISOLATION shows that nearly 100000
has been loaned to farmers In that
county since the formation of the as
ISOLATION.
Negotiations are under way by
which the port OF Seattle hopes to &C.
-euire control Of the 20-acre tract Of
the old Skinner Z Eddy No. : ship
yard % site for Z modern immigra-
ton station to I'LL the needs Of the
port.
A corporation cannot make Z CON
tract with il individual employees
which would set aside an act Of the
legislature. the supreme court has
held. affirming the lower court Of Sp0-
kane county in the case Of Frank Bur-
lette W. the Broadvisw Dairy COM
pany.
The Tacoma municipal light depart
nent did ! gross operating business
q @1.ss3. l33.ys durtng 1871. gain Of
a. per cent over the figure Of 1921.
end registered . net income. after pay
nsnt o. operating costs. tar and de-
Drseiatioa Of es1s GOOSE. gain Of
~ per csat over 1891.
The new &1sS.oOO bond issue Of the
ounnysids VALLEY Irrigation district
viii be placed % the market within
Tie next few days. This Issue will
take the place Of the former irrigation
district bonds, and through extending
the term Of payment will reduce the
present assessment approximately Is
Per cent.
Five hundred and twenty-five thcus-
and young trout were planted In
Clarke county streams IN the last year.
according to DR.. G. s. Irwin. chair
man of the Clarke county game COM
mission The number planted In two
pears was 1.235,OOo, of which $4,000
we're Matched in the Clarke county
hatchery.
One OF the biggest deals IN WASH
1ngton timber announced in years, In
volving 100000 and adding about
half billion feet Of standing timber
to the holdings Of Tacoma interests,
was completed by the purchase of the
AcCoy-Loggie Timber company of Bel
linsham by the Nooksack Timber COM
pany of Tacoma.
Eclipsing all records. silk ship
ment valued at $10.000,000 is aboard
the Admiral-orienta liner President
Grant, which has left Yokohama for
Seattle, due January 20. The Grant
10 bringing 400 passengers. 1900 bags OF
mail and more than 1000 tons of cargo.
The value of the entire cargo 10 rough
v put at s15.O0O,Oo0
The total deposits of Lewis coun-
Vs IL banks at the close Of business
On December 80 were $6,842, 6S3.66. ac-
sording to statements published by the
Of q