Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-28
Principal Events of the Week
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of Our Readers.

ham.
John Goldman. %, G. A. R. veteran
and pioneer of Columbia county, died
IN Walla Walla.
The Clarke county potato crop this
year will not exceed so per cent of
the yield Of last year, 1t is said.
At a meeting at Oakesdale, many
farmers formed branch Of the Wash
fngton export commission league.
Although the date for signing leases
for lands on the Yakima Indian reser-
walton is March 1, many are renewing
now.
Edward B. Hampstead of Walla
Walla has been appointed a cadet at
the United States military academy,
West Point.
A rifle and pistol shooting club
which will be affiliated with the Ma
tional Club association is being form
ed at Colfax.
Game Warden Lynn of Chelan coun-
ty announces that the white fish sea-
son will be open from January to
February 20.
Members of the Whitman county
farm bureau are pooling their hog ship
ments to the Spokane union stock
yards with good results.
Teaching of German after a lapse
of five years will be resumed in Spo-
kane high schools, provided there is
i. enough demand to justify classes.
Harry M. Hollingsworth, Sc, died at
the Swindall hospital in MontesanoI
from injuries received when his car
overturned on the Wynooche road.
Mrs. Kathryn A. Miracle, a member
of the Seattle city council, has official.
ly announced her candidacy for mayor
ct the municipal election next spring.
William H. Lewis, one of the best
known hydraulic sluicing engineers of
the Pacific northwest and pioneer
contractor, died at his home in Sc
attic. He was SIS years old.
According to announcement the dis,
trict convention of the Kiwanis, in.
Guiding Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and British Columbia, viii be held in
Walla Walla September and 9.
Prohibition and customs officers
seized an airplane at the Foster Rus
sell landing field at Spokane and are
holding it for an investigation of al
legged aerial liquor-running from Can.
ada.
The third annual Whatcom county
poultry school will be held at Meridian
high school December 81, % and 20,
under the direction Of the extension
department of Washington State col
lege.
Pinned beneath a heavy car when
It skidded and upset in the Selah val
ley, Silas e. Bunker, prohibition en-.
fOrcement officer and head OF the va
kima county dry squad. was seriously
injured.
Reputation OF the Washington
State Chamber Of Commerce was vOt.
ed by the trustees Of the Spokane
Chamber Of Commerce. The Seattle
Chamber Of Commerce has taken SINH
lar action.
A claim of SsO.sO5 against the es
tate Of John L. Carlson, once wealthy
canneryman Of Alaska and Seattle,
who died in 1921. was filed in probate
court at Seattle by Burns Poe, col
Iector of internal revenue.
With his house filled with stolen
toys, small articles of merchandise
and gimcracks. sufficient almost to
stock a small variety store, Schuyler
King, aged 20 years and married, was
placed under arrest in Olympia.
Because, they declared, of the "de.
fiant attitude and the poor civic
spirit" shown by leading citizens OF
Deer Park in the matter Of law en-.
fOrcement, Mayor Wood and all the
1CbANO hCnDCID VI tuo city COUNCIL
have resigned.
Requests for improved passenger
and freight service on the Central
Washington branch of the Northern
Pacific were made to 3. F. Benson,
manager of the department Of immi
grafton and industry of the Northern
Pacific by the business mems club Of
Reardan.
Seattle church people are helping
to pay the costs of the King county
grand jury session. Seattle people
have hitherto been puzzled by the
continuance of the jury session long
past the time when the county apprO
priation for the purpose was known
to be exhausted.
A bill to pay George Turner, ex.
United States senator from Washing.
ton, s699.9S as compensation for serv.
ices as counsel at the international
Joint commission during November,