Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-30

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grain is delivered At the warshsuaa
we're announced ct Spokane By 4. c.
Adams, secretary Of the WashEzsEon
wheat growers association.
Under the new Law passed b. the
last legislature. permitting the sale
Of juts bags manufactured at the pani-
Tertiary on the open market. " J.
Hayes, director Of business control.
has announced that 100000 bags made
in the penitentiary min in 1921. would
be offered for sale At once.
with $4,000 Of the funds ar5ro-
priated for the eastern state hospital
& Medical Lake work win be started
shortly rehabilitating and furnishing
the old custodial school building to
make additional space for the care Of
200 insane patients. W. J. Hayes. direc-
tor Of business control. has announced.
Complaint challenging passenger
| fares on four branches of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway,
which were formerly the Bellingham
! & Northern, Seattle. Port Angeles &
Western, Tacoma Eastern and Port
Townsend & Puget Sound railways,
has been filed by the department of
public works and set for hearing at
Olympia on April II.
Rehearing of the alien enemy claims
case is asked in petition sent by
the state to the circuit court of ap-
peals at San Francisco, Assistant At
torney General Dunbar has announc.
ed. The circuit court recently order
ed the department of labor and in
dustries to forfeit to the alien prop
erty custodian about $4,000 in in.
dustrial insurance claims held by bene-
ficlaries of former alien enemies
Should the rehearing be denied, the
state will appeal to the United States
supreme court. Mr.. Dunbar said.
A pedestrian crossing a street inter-
section with released traffic where a
traffic officer with a senaphore is
stationed, has the right-of-way until he
reaches the opposite curb, even though
the traffic officer may change sthe
semaphore before the pedestrian reach
es the curb, the supreme court has
held.
The Tacoma municipal light and
water department showed a marked
decrease in it's business during Feb
ruary, due to the short month and the
lengthening days. Receipts during the
month amounted to $S3, 091. 4s, while
expenses totaled 5s,S17.76. Profits for
January and February total s1O4,-
671O6.
A Jury in superior court at Seattle
returned the first conviction In this
state for violation of the state anti
alien land law, passed by the 1921
legislature. It found A.. v. Williams,
prominent Seattle realty dealer, guilty
of criminal completely in aiding jap
anese to conceal illegal ownership Of
seventy acres of farm land.
The state supreme court has denied
rehearing to Irving Whitehouse, for
mer Spokane broker, who was convict
ed of grand larceny and sentenced
from five to fifteen years in the peni-
Tertiary. Whitehouse was alleged to
have maintained fraudulent devices in
his offices and to have misappropriat-
ed funds held for investment.
After almost a week of rival bid
ding between the R. C. Storrie COM
pany OF San Francisco and the Dix
& Outland company of Seattle, block
Of $2.52O,OOO in bonds of the power
project Seattle is building on the
Skagit river was sold by the council
at a premium of ssS,160. The San
Francisco house got the bonds.
Extradition papers for Clarence J.
Smith and Luther Cotton. identified
through photographs as the men who
robbed Manager Winsor In the office
OF the Colonial theater in Tacoma on
the night Of October Is last of more
than $1,000. are now in the hands Of
Governor Hart for his signature. Smith
and Cotton are held by the San Fran
cisco police.
Harold Whitworth, engineer, with
a party Of surveyors working under
the direction of Superintendent Ruth
ford OF the Washington state parks
committee, is running out the bound
aries Of Deception Pass state park
and marking them. The party is now
al work on WILDLY Island and when
the work there is completed will cross
Deception Pass to mark the bound
aries of the park on Fidalgo Island.
Production Of lumber for the 14s
mills reporting to the West Coast
, Lumbermen's association for the week
ending March II was IS per cent above
normal, according to a statement is
sued. New business was per cent