Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
Washington State News

/ kuppier brotneF8 were awarded :
contract for the construction OF :
thirty-one-room hotel for Mrs. Anna
Mcneil at Port Angeles.
Two bandits entered the Florence
Lumber company's camp near Monroe
Friday night held up and robbed %
lumberjaeks and escaped.
Washington State college Il asking
the legislature for the regular biennial
appropriation Of 1851. 900 ana special
appropriations totaling $4,000
Stephen Forney was Instantly killed
ct Dayton when BE fen from The ROOT
Of the new high school building. where
he was employed carrying slate.
The annual report Of the Whatcom
County Dairymsn's association shows
sales in 1853 totaling e1.BBB,Bsz an In
crease Of 81 per cent over the 1891 bust
ness.
Mrs.. Mary s. Bunce. eighty-fIvs
years old. Of wapato. died At TIE home
Of her son. w. @. Bunce. The deceased
woman was q pioneer Of the Yakima
valley.
Terence Dewitt. aged So, Spokane
pioneer. shot and killed his daughter.
Mrs. Della Nelson. then seriously
wounded himself. No reason for the
act Is known.
Bert Wickham. head Taller Of the
WynooOhe Timber company, ives killed
Friday when he was caught between 3
falling tree and = stump at the camp
neat Montesano.
The Bellingham central labor council
IL protesting against the present com.
mon labor wages. said to range from
Ss.60 to $40 3 day, and win ask :
minimum Of $3.50.
A special school Of instruction for
post commanders viii be conducted at
the district conference Of the Alneri-
can Legion. to Be held at PrOsser be-
ginning February 8.
Fruit growers OF the Okanogan,
omak. and Riverside districts met at
omak last week and formed = unit Of
the Horticultural and Traffic assocIa-
tion, with $50 members.
Motion for dismissal Of two indict-
ments against J. z. ChiIbsrg. former
president Of the defunct scandinavian
American bank Of Seattle, has been
denied In superior court.
At the annual meeting Of the share
holders OF the Winlock Cooperative
Creamery company. it was decided to
build new creamery with double the
capacity Of the present one.
Continuation Of the 1879 Seattle re-
cord-breaking building ere throughout
1898 IL forecast by q summary Of Jan.
uaFy building permits announced By
the city building department.
Mistaken for q burglar when he en-
tered the home of George Schneider
near Summer, w. W. Van Meter. an In
suraqcs man Of Tacoma. was shot and
fatally wounded by Schneitser.
James O. Mason, "a, agent at Loon
Lake for the Great Northern railway.
and who had followed the transporta,
ton business ali his life, died sudden.
~ on his large fruit orchard near Che
weiah.
Norris 8. Brown. former Seattle po-
lioeman and former United States ma
val officer, 10 under arrest at San
Diego on q charge Of kidnapping his
2-year-old son from the ohild's mother
in Seattle.
Twenty-three counties in this state
sent more students to the University
Of Warrington this year than IN 1871.
20, according to 3 report compiled by
d. B. Stevens, executive secretary Of
the university.
Large Stumps can be blasted at an
approximate cost Of $40 q stump,
when the new 'sawdust dynamite. .
perfected BY Professor William NJ.
Dehn, Of the University Of Washington
chemistry department, IL placed on the
market. This powder Is not only less
expensive and much easier to use than
ordinary dynamite. but It's results ere
more effective.
Military funeral services were con
Quoted at Ellsnsburg Sunday afternoon
for Walter M. Jones. q former resident
Of Ellensburg, who died IN Seattle.
The American Legion win be In charge
Of the funeral.
Fostersd by the Walia Walla county
farm bureau. 3 movement has been
started to have farm bureau organize
tions throughout the state Join forces
to prevent the jute mill at the peni
Tertiary being junked.
Harry ;. Higgins. for % years identt
fled with Tacoma newspapers and fol
the last five years managing editor
Of the Tacoma Daily Ledger. died. fol
lowing an operation earlier In the day
for meningitis Of the brain.
The Puget Sound Mills and Timber
company Of Port Angeles exported IA
046,017 fset Of lumber, lath and
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