Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-11-06
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With view to organizing the coun-
ty clerks of Washington, II officials
met in Tacoma and adopted a number
of resolutions and discussed questions
-of importance. ]. F. Libby of Pierce
county was elected president and
Hugh C. Todd Of Whitman county
secretary. The next meeting will be
held in Seattle July 20, 1908. The
charge for physicians licenses was
raised from 10 cents to 81.
Saturday saw the hardest wind the
Dayton section has witnessed since
the time the warehouses were blown
down.
Senator Piles has arrived in Wash
ington and will remain through the
session before congress, working as
a member of the joint committee to
revise the federal laws of which Sen
ator Hepburn of Idaho is chairman
of the senate portion.
Never were contractors on the
Portland & Seattle rushing work
with greater energy, and never have
prospects seemed brighter for an
early completion of the project than
now.
/. Tacoma machinists have registered
a strong protest against the plan of
the United States government to
bring machinists from the east to
work in the Pacific coast navy yards,
under contract.
Slowly but surely the assessment
and taxation officials of Washington
are closing in on the big tax dodgers
and smoking them out of their holes
of refuge behind political pull and Of
fetal favoritism. Properties valued
at millions of dollars, heretofore in
adequately assessed or escaping asses
ment entirely. are beginning to be list
ed for something like adequate values.
The state of Washington has bor-
rowed from the permanent school
fund the sum of $150,00O at 81 per
cent interest. Heretofore the state
has paid only 81 per cent interest,
but under an act of the last legisla-
ture, the permanent school fund is re-
quired to earn not less than 3A per
cent.
A serious wreck in which two men
were badly injured occurred in the
yards of the Northern Pacific at Pull
man recently, when a light engine
crashed into switch engine with
two cars. wrecking one Of the cars
completely and seriously damaging
both engines. The injured men are
Sam Gill and Arthur Scott, both
brakemen.
Chief Engineer Jacobs of the recla-
nation service has received the notes
of the survey for the extension of the
Sunnyside canal in the vicinity of
Prosser, and will at once prepare
specifications for the work. The ex-
tension will add 5000 acres to the dis
trict now under water by the Sunny
side ditch. Work probably will not
begin before spring.
Edward F. Hunter, 81 years old, SUI
perior court Judge in Lewis county
for two terms, commencing in 1896,
died of heart trouble at Seattle re-
Gently.
ed at meeting of farmers and bust
ness men of Sunnyside recently. as
result of which steps will be taken
to improve the present system in the
valley.
All the single mills belonging to
the Washington Single Mills bureau
have shut down. Overproduction,
tightness of money and uncertainty
of railroad rates are assigned as the
cause.
J. s. Croswell, % years old, was
killed at Roe's sawmill, IL miles
northeast Of Davenport, recently by
the accidental rolling of a log over
him, breaking his neck.
L. P. Turner has completed hauling
his crop of 5000 sacks to Harrington
and to Mohler $1,000 bags. Hauling
is now about done. Grain companies
are out of the market.
A regular United States mail car is
now included in the equipment of the
Spokane International train between
Spokane and Eastport.
Mill workers and their sympathizers
Saturday night made a demonstration
against Hindus employed in the Ever
EFT mills, but the police, learned in
advance of the affair, corraled "a of
them and placed them in the city jail
for safekeeping.
That these are prosperous days for
the Washington farmer may be judg-
ed from the fact that over $500, 900
has been left in this state by three
grain steamers which have departed
from Tacoma this week.
Orchards, hay farms and truck
gardens. the three great sources of
wealth in the Sunnyside valley, have
this year set their record above any
previous year, with a total produc-
tiou Of moro thau half ,,ailiiox>