Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-06-29


ing Cor Robert cress and = woman
companion from Wenatchee Who are
suspected Of breaking into the aherIKfs
office in Davenport and stealing 20
cases Of bonded liquor.
Prices OF mink. muskrat ana red
fox furs showed an advance ct ~
coma when more than 100000 worth
Of furs. mostly from Alaska. were
cold at the regular auction of the West
Coast Grocery company.
Where the department Of labor and
industries received no notice that an
officer Of a company is on the pay
roll, Industrial insurance cannot be
collected on q claim in his behalf,
the supreme court has ruled.
The washington department OF ma
tional forests win use portable gaso-
line force pumps to combat forest fires
this season, according to an announce
ment OF w. @. Weigle, superintendent
Of SnoQualmie national forest.
Production OF the 1s2 mills report
ing to the West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending June
Is was rs per cent above normal.
New business was IS per cent below
production and shipments were 20 per
cent above new business.
While there IL assurance of a more
adequate car supply and more equit-
able distribution Of rolling stock this
year than last. the most serious prob
lem facing the car service section of
the American Railway association is
the bumper crop expected, which will
probably place a greater demand on
railroads than ever before, accord
ing to g. v. Kuykendall. director Of
public works.
The Seattle naval radio station,
NVL, which was established at Sc
attic when the United States entered
the world war in 1917, has been placed
out Of commission. Necessity for
further economies in the naval estab-
lishment, 1t was explained, necessitat-
ed the closing. ~,
80 'snsss--"1'
The department Of licenses expects
to begin the issuance Of the new
drivers licenses for the two-year per-
iod. beginning August /. as soon as
1t is possible to secure the necessary
printing New application blanks are
being sent out now for general dis
tribution to the motoring public.
The Spokane Flour Mills company
has been organized with a capitalize
ton Of S508, 900 to take over the prop
erty of the present Spokane Flour
Mills company and the Seattle Flour
Mills company. This includes . flour
mill in Spokane, = flour mill ~ Sc
attic and anOtner in Pendleton. 81.
By using proper care in logging, the
forests of Washington and other north.
western states can be preserved in
definitely without replanting, Colonel
W. B. Greeley, chief OF the United
States forest service, said while in
Tacoma in conference with Granville
F. Allen, federal district forest super
visor
The teaching of German will be re-
stored in high schools of the state
only where an authorized petition from
the district board is presented to the
state superintendent of public instFuc-
ton recommending It, according to a
resolution adopted by the state board
of education at its annual meeting
in Olympia. ~ srs 81. ,-ssze
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The annual report for 1922 of the
Spokane Valley & Northern railway,
said to be one Of the smallest roads
in the state, was filed with the de-
partment OF public works The road
runs from Valley to the Magnesite
quarries and lie six miles in length.
The operation Of the road for the
year shows q loss Of $1,000: -,
A band Of sheep Numbering $500,
uIANSu ONCI INC MoJOH OAOSA SoAyoA
road in Klickitat county from Lyle. en-
route to Stevenson via BurdOin noun
tain. played havoc with the road from
the bridge to the summit Of the htl,
presumably on account Of being fore
ed up the steep hillside by passing
autos and teams and rolling rocks
and debris onto the road.
tuberculosis in cattle In this state
will run less than Q per cent in the
number tested during this biennium
ending January. 1925. it is estimated
by DR.. L. C. Pelton, supervisor Of anil
NAL industry At the end Of the last
biennium In January Of this year, the
proportion Of reactors was 2.42 per