Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-06-17

DAY ana saturday.
Financial problems involving the az
ricultural, commercial and social wei.
fare Of the state and nation were
analysed when nearly 400 bankers, in
vestment officials, bond dealers and
financiers assembled from all sections
of the state at Seattle Friday to attend
the 18th annual convention OF the
Washington Bankers association.
Simultaneous investigation by the
department Of Justice In Seattle. Butte.
and Spokane, based on charges that
the gasoline shortage In this district
is fictitious. arranged by the three big
companies for the purpose of freezing
out the independent dealers. ID an
nounced by j. +. McAuley, chief of
the bureau of investigation In Seattle.
Hearings announced by the public
service commission to be held In east
ern Washington from June IA to 10
on rates Of the Pacific Power & Light
company, have been postponed for sew
eral weeks. The hearings involve gas
and electric rates at Yakima and Wal
la Walla and water rates at Prosser
and Kennewick. The exact dates for
the hearings have not been determined.
Four members OF the Industrial
Workers of the World, who were tried
on a charge of criminal syndicalism,
were found guilty at Chehalls. The
convicted men are Simon Hill, Charles
Brown, Tom Lassiter and Frank Hes
ton. The four men were arrested In
Centralia during the general roundup
in that city incident to the armistice.
day massacre In that city November
II last.
Thirty bids were opened by the Lin
coin county commissioners on the con-
struction o. Donahue road No. B. from
Peach to Creston, II miles. The bid
of S. G. Kinder, Mansfield, to do the
grading for s50,079 was accepted. The
contract for surfacing was awarded to
the Northwest Paving company, Spo-
kane, for $2S,525, and the culverts and
bridges will be put in by c. f. Bond
of Coulee City, at s9751.
The Tacoma municipal street rail.
way cannot be made to pay on Scent
fare, H. Roy Harrison, commissioner
Of public works. told the city council.
His statement was made In answer to
]. w. Silver, newly elected commits
sioner of finance, who said that he had
a man willing to make a deal to han
die the line on that basis. The rail
way connects the city with shipyards,
mills and other industrial plants.
Prospectors working in the Wyno-
che valley near the ]. H. Taylor farm
are responsible for the report that gold
in paying quantities has been found
in the quartz outcroppings along the
bed of that river The report has eX-
cited much interest. The prospectors
have been stadily at work on their
claims throughout the spring months,
despite the fact that their neighbors
have been making between $40 and
SIS day gathering cascara bark.
Judge John M. Wilson of the Thurs
ton county superior court sustained
the demurrer of Attorney General
Thompson, in the case OF Moore vs..
Younger and others. The employers
association asked for writ Of review
of the order of the Industrial welfare
commission establishing the minimum
wage for female help In manufacturing
establishments at $3.50 week. The
court held it had no jurisdiction. The
plaintiffs, the court said, could appeal
under the law.
Capitalists and mining men in many
cities of the state were represented in
the transfer last week of 10000 acres
of oil land in the Olympic peninsula
and 1880 acres in the developed Wy
oming shale oil fields. The tracts
were purchased by the Wyoming-Ol
pic Oil 6 Development association
from the Olympic Oil Development
association. The purchasing company
has about $50 members in Aberdeen
Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma, Port Town
send and other points.
Railroads operating in Washington
will not be permitted to increase freight
rates on interstate shipments until af
ter thorough hearings by the public
service commission and production Of
evidence establishing the necessity fol
such increases, 1t is held by the com
mission. The roads have asked the
commission to accept in support Of
their petition for horizontal increase
rates, the testimony offered at hear
ings held by the interstate commerce
commission on interstate rates. Com
merclal bodies and shippers have beer
invited by the commission to attend
the hearings.
Winter.whnat nrnduction in Wash