Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-08

me to 20 years in the p~enitantiary al
Walla Walla. The boy was killed b.
an automobile driven BY Griffith.
Jesse Fits, Rigefield youth. was ser
iously wounded and Ferdinand Weber
and Leon Potter slightly wounded
when Grover Hurshbarger is alleged
to have fired at the lads with a shot
gun as they were going through AZ
alley back Of his premises in Ridge
field.
Though a number of extra watch
men were placed on duty at Wapato
burglars broke down the front door o.
the towns leading pool hall, rolled
out a 4O0-pound safe and hauled 1t By
truck 70 the river. about a mile away
The robbers got about $3.50 for their
nights work.
Loans a~ggregating 1880, 900 to ag
r%icultural interests of the Pacific
Northwest have been made by the Fed
eral intermediate Credit Bank of Spo
kane since its organization several
months ago, according to a report
made by Ward M. BuckIer, manager o
the institution.
Olympia civic organizations, includ
ing the American Legion, the Cham
Der of Commerce. the labor unions
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, will spend
Armistice Day in Yelm, helping the
Legion of that town to build an audi
forum, which they expect to construct
in a single day.
A permit was issued to the Buchan
an Lumber company of Olympia, by
Marvin Chase, supervisor of hydraul
les, to divert and appropriate the wa
tiers of Schneider's creek in Thurstor
county, for mill and boiler supply
The improvement will cost between
$4,000 and $4,000.
More than 5,0OO.O 900 feet Of lum
Der will be the total export mark fol
this year by north Pacific coast mills
according to statistics announced in
Seattle by officials of the Douglas FIJI
Exploitation & Export company, ar
organization comprising the majority
of the export mills.
Officers of the annual Brethren con
ference of the Pacific German Congre
g~ational churches, in session at Wallo
Walla, were elected as follows: Rev
H. Hagelgauz Of Portland, chairman
Conrad Walter of Odessa, vice-presi
dent; George Frank, Walla Walla, sec
rotary; ]. VAIL Of Lind, treasurer.
Increased output and sales were re
ported to the West Coast Lumber
mems association by 129 mills for las
week. Production wal log, 7O6,61I
feet, % per cent above normal outpu'
with an eight-hour shift, as compared
with a 20 per cent advance the pre-
ceding week. Sales were 57,5O6,56
feet.
Several hundred Indians drawn from
a score of tribes throughout the north
west attended the convention of tn.
Northwest Federation of American In
dams held at Everett. The conven
ton was called to petition the gov
eminent for compensation for land
taken under the terms Of former
treaties. ~
A school district OF the second class
cannot unite with a district of the
first class to form a union high school
SO the attorney generals office in
forms the state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction. A union high schoo.
district may, however, be formed from
two or more contiguous districts Of
the second and third class.
Wounded world war veterans IL
Cushman hospital, Tacoma, have re
ceived as personal mementoes photo
graphs Of the late President Hardins
and Mrs. Harding, taken when thC
presidential party visited them las
summer. The presentations were made
by Colonel ]. R. Dean, chairman o.
the state disqualification committee.
Thousands Of choice Yakima ap
pies were mailed from Yakima t,
points all over the country as part O.
the observance of national apple week
The containers were 3-inch cube paste
board boxes. each of the six sidei
containing a letter forming the wore
Yakima" with q line descriptive o
the apple beginning with each letter
State and federal inspectors met IL
Tacoma and came to an agreement t
grade wheat, partly damaged in tn.
field by dampness, to the best inter
ests Of the grower. Instead Of grad
ing carload lots on the basis o
samples Of good and bad wheat, thu
grade win be based on good whea
in the center of the sack, and then tn,
weight of the rotten grain will be de
Quoted from the purchase price.
Federal warrants were issued in Ta
aon.o for thrao mo fvuo From, Do,