Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-09-21

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plant at Oroville Is operating az fun
capacity about Il hours day, the
daily output being about 500 cases.
Net earnings by the Spokane water
system for the first eight months of
this year totaled $685. above operat.
ing costs, interest and depreciation.
The expenses OF running the Clarke
county government during the com
ing year and providing for all thu
road work and bridge repair will total
close to s76O,OOO.
The cost of placing men and wom-
en- in August by the municipal labor
bureau at Spokane was 1874 cents as
compared with 2Oa cents for the
same month in 1929.
Immediate erection in Seattle of the
finest ice cream plant in the West,
at cost of 100000, was announced
by F. " Fisher president of the Sc
attic Ice Cream company.
It will require s1,94O,615.s to pay
the expenses of the city of Tacoma
next year, according to the budget ap-
proved by the city council.
Resolutions asking law to make
taxes on automobiles payable at the
time licenses are given for motor We
hicles were unanimously passed by
the state convention of county treas
urers at Yakima.
The Star Fruit company. a coopera.
tive concern at Bingen organized by
Bingen and White Salmon growers,
has begun packing apples Members
Of the company win pack about 100.
900 boxes OF apples.
r 4. SIocum. bee specialist Of The
extension service OF Washington State
college. held two bee schools IN gts-
veus county. one at the apiary II IKE
CIaaston. Rice and one at W. S. Id
bys spiary. near ColviIIe-
Counties that VIII have exhibits Al
the state fair at Yakima include
Lewis. CIaIlam. Benton. Asotfn- SKA
git. Ferry. Spokane. Jefferson. Ensap
and Pierce. according 70 a statement
by H. P. VermiIye. state fair secre-
tary.
Percy L. Sinclair. state senator. viii
stand trial for his alleged part in con
cealing the tottering condition Of the
Southwestern Washington bank at II
waco from the state bank examiner.
Sinclair is now at liberty under bond
of $4,000.
Mrs. Agnes R. Fletcher. matron at
the state pepitentiary at WaIla Walla
for the last six months. has resigned
and accepted a place with the public
health service. Mrs. Paul Carter will
act as matron, Warden Clarence Long
announced. She has been assistant
matron.
Director e. v. Kuykendall of the de-
partment of public works, is holding
a series of conferences with farmers
and business men in the district south
of the Snake river, to agree to plans
for gathering evidence in support of
their demand that railroad rates to
Puget Sound cities be reduced to the
Portland level. The state department
of agriculture is cooperating with
Director Kuykendall and officials Of
his department.
These 129 mills, for the seven days
ending September 8, manufactured
101, OS6,313 feet of lumber; sold ST.
1880 feet, and shipped S7,547,275
feet.
Forest fires in Washington are be-
ing fought with a high pressure water
pump, instead of with the shovel, as
in days gone by, according to ]. Nc
MILAN, warden for Skagit and What
com counties. Fifteen Of these new
pumps have been distributed through
out the state and are ready for in
slant use where available.
An active fight on the cooperative
scheme offered Clarke county prune
growers by the California Packing cor
poration has been started by the
Washington Growers Packing corpor-
alton, the sales organ of the Clarke
Prune Growers association. About
IS per cent of the prune growers are
members of the association.
Thomas N. Hoover, "a, of Conrad,
Mont, a private. first class, stationed
at Fort George Wright, Spokane, was
killed on the Sunset highway "a miles
east of Ellensburg, when an army
truck in which he and group of other
soldiers were returning from Camp
Lewis to Fort Wright was overturned
and rolled down an embankment.
The voters of the Seattle port dis
trict having refused to sanction bond
issue for the purchase of the water
front tract owned by the United States
shipping board, the port commission
ers cannot increase the district in
debtedness by using other money to
make the purchase, according to a
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