Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-28
Washington State News

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Wapato because of laxity in liquor
law enforcement, Mayor O. 3. Hale
has issued a statement denying the
report and declaring that Wapato Of
ficials had cooperated with county
and federal officers.
The government estimate Of the
apple production for the United States
this year is S4,40s. 900 barrels, which
is nearly 100000 barrels greater than
the 1922 crop. OF this total produc-
ton, Washington is credited with
considerably more than one quarter
or S,1OS,OOO barrels.
No motor license plates were mailed
out by the department of licenses be-
tween December 20 and 25, Fred ].
Dibble. director of licenses, announc-
ed Congestion of the mails during
the Christmas holidays was given as
the reason. About 10000 plates were
mailed on December 26.
Judgment of the Pierce county SUI
perior court disnIissing the action
brought by State Bank Supervisor
John p Duke to recover $31 $50 from
Dean Johnson, vice president and
trustee of the defunct Scandinavian
American bank of Tacoma, was affirm
ed by the supreme court.
A frame building, 40 by 80 feet, is
being constructed in Pullman, to be
used as warehouse by the Lewiston
Mercantile company Of Lewiston,
Idaho. It is planned to carry a stock
of groceries worth from $4,000 to
100000, for distribution to the re-
tailers of the Palouse country.
Wheat growers of Washington this
fall planted 1.559,OO0 acres of winter
wheat, indicating an increase of 10 per
cent over the acreage planted in the
fall Of 1922, says the government re-
port. This increase is due to heavy
paintings in the Big Bend, noticeably
in Adams, Grant and Lincoln coun-
ties.
Appeal has been taken to the Thurs
ton county superior court by the
Northern Pacific Railway company, in
the first Of the PREPARATION cases aris-
ing under the log rate order of the
state department of public works es-
tablishing the uniform mileage basis
for log transportation on all railroads
in the state.
Washington's lumber industry will
have its biggest year in 1874 accord
ing to early indications on the Atlantic
coast and in the middle west, where
fir is rapidly becoming the favorite
building lumber, said R. b Allen, man
ager of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association, on his return from Wash
ington, D. C.
Robert, age 2, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond DecOta of Gromore in va
kima county, was found dead by his
mother when she returned to the
house after rounding up some turkeys
on the ranch. She. had tied the baby
in a high chair with a towel which
caught the child under the chin as
he slipped down in the chair, strang-
ling him.
Work on the North Bank highway,
which when completed will extend
east from Vancouver along the north
bank Of the Columbia river via White
Salmon to Yakima. will continue all
winter, R. M. ellis, district engineer
for the state highway department, has
announced. The work is proceeding
in a satisfactory manner. With com.
pletiOn of the stretch near Cascades,
the highway will be open for travel
as far as White Salmon. and by June,
ellis believes, It will be open as far
as Lyle.
Plans to build up the dairy industry
Of the Yakima Valley were made at
q meeting in Yakima of growers and
business interestR They contemplate
a course of special instruction by ex.
perts, over a period Of at least ten
years. in order, 1t was stated, that
the valley may have a maximum of
both high class dairy COWS and high
class dairy men. A. E. Loyett, coun-
ty agent. said records of the state
college showed that As per cent Of the
dairy cows in the Yakima valley now
are Improbable
An opinion putting an end to a
proposition of the Clarke county game
commission at Vancouver for the clos
ing Of all lakes and streams in the
county to the taking Of food fish dur
ing the period when the catching Of
game fish is prohibited, has been
rendered by Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral Anderson. The opinion stated
that to answer the question It must be
assumed that the proposed closing on
food fish was during the open season
established By the state fisheries
board. Steelheads have been classi-
fled by the board as food fish, with
the open period set between January