The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-12-29

HUBERT ScHdIer, OWueu ny the Sdine
firm, locked nearby.
A cordwood pile of regulation
height and width, four feet each
way, and 10.43 miles long, is esti.
mated as the amount of timber cut
from the Walla Walla district OF
the Umatilla national forest under
permit during the summer of 1882.
Walter Kimmerly, county auditor
at Walla Walla, received word from
the state attorney generals office
that the county game commissions
ers are to remain in office and in
charge until the new state game
commission is appointed and organ
! lied.
A bill to broaden the powers and
duties of the Washington state
highway patrol to give the value
and Importance of state police
system will be pushed in the next
session of the legislature by the
Washington State Sheriff's asso-
citation.
Motorists recently reported great
flocks of seagulls at the conjunc-
ton of the Klickitat and Columbia
rivers at Lyle, attracted by the un-
usually heavy annual run of dog
salmon. The fish spawned and died,
furnishing feast for these grace
full scavengers.
Charges and counter charges
flew between residential district
and downtown meat dealers Of
Yakima at city commission meet
ing there when downtown proprie-
tors attempted to have the annual
license fee boosted from SIS to
500 a year.
Predatory animals slew 565 deer
in the Mount Baker national forest
this year compared with "a killed
by men, but hunters scored highest
in the number of bears killed, fell
ing 10 to the one dropped by a
cougar, according to reports filed
by rangers.
A class of woodturning and con-
struction work is being offered to
women at the State Normal school
at Cheney. Woodturning includes
the making of such articles as roll
Iingpins, tool handles, gavels, candle
sticks, lamps, pin trays, jewel
boxes, and nut bowls.
The Chelan county commission
ers last week opened bids for that
county's share of joint state and
county project, which calls for elm
nation Of the last two death
curves" on the Chelan-Wenatchee
highway, both at underpasses on
the Great Northern railway.
Yakima apple shippers who have
forwarded apples under standard
ventilation have changed to heater
service in transit. No reports of
damage to fruit on the road on ac-
count of the extreme cold have
been received at Yakima, but
some cars shipped from Wenatchee
have been frozen.
The city council of Davenport de-
MED a petition of the Wenatchee
Chamber of Commerce for a permit
to erect large sign at the inter-
section of the North Central and
Sunset highways at Davenport. The
action was taken after IL property
owners near the proposed site Of
the sign protested.
Indian police officers of Toppen-
ish are looking for the worlds
meanest man." They discovered
the theft of 600 pounds of bacon,
beans, flour and sugar from
warehouse at Fort Simcoe, near
Toppenish. The food, government
property, was held for distribution
among aged and destitute Indians.
Unprecedented numbers at Wen
atchee are taking advantage of the
homestead" provision in foreclos-
ure proceedings. The homestead"
clause gives persons about to lose
their homes through foreclosure q
year, rent-free, if they file home
stead declaration within 80 days
after foreclosure judgment is OBJ
tanned.
AS the result of q 10-year-fight
by Spokane health authorities
against diphtheria the number OF
reported cases in that city has
dropped from the peak of 1862 in
1925 to a total of only s thus far
in 1892. Diphtheria claimed 16
lives there in 1925. To date, in
1882, only one person has died from
this cause.
Travellers over Status Pass road
between Goldendale and the Yaki-
ma valley have observed phe-
nomenon at the big fill which is
puzzling. A smoke-like vapor rises,
and in passing over the road