Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-19

vii take up his duties about Deem.
Der !.
The Seattle central labor council
voted to accept TIE terms Of the Amer.
lean Federation OF Labor ultimatnm
and cease activities of a radical na-
ture. The vote came after q bitter
wrangle between conservative dele
gates and leaders of the left wing Of
the council.
Mrs. William NJ. Vincent, Seattle,
was reelected president of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance union Of
western Washington at Its annual con
vention in Bellingham. Mrs. Lfllit
Nancy and Mrs. Ella H. Booker, both
of Seattle, were reelected correspond
ing secretary and recording secretary,
respectively.
DR.. W. D. Valentine. aged 70, a pio-
neer physician OF Spokane city. was
found guilty by a jury In federal court
on two counts of an indictment charg-
ing the sale of narcotics to an alleged
drug addict. Because of his age, the
Jury recommended clemency. DR.. Val
entine testified that the narcotic was
part of a course of treatment he had
prescribed.
John Riseland of Bellingham wal
reelected president OF the Washing
ton Retail Grocers' and Merchants as.
sociation at business sessions Of the
twenty-fourth annual convention in
Spokane. R. L. Cunningham Of Aber-
deem, was reelected vice president.
w. L. Ludington of Wenatchee and
Oscar Phil of Puyallup were elected
to the board of trustees. zaa.l4s
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High acre yield for spring wheat.
oats and barley are indicated in The
October report for Washington. issued
by G. s. Ray, federal agricultural sta
tistician. Apple production promises
70 be slightly larger than was predict
ed on September l, the report shows,
and corn and potato crops show small
decreases as compared with the fore
cast made a month ago.
Robert ]. Thodt, secretary of the
Pomeroy trainers union, has been
notified that a meeting Of the tri-conn-
ty union of Garfield, Columbia and
Walla Walla counties will be held at
Dayton on October 20. This probably
will be the last ~tri-county meeting be-
fore the next meeting OF the state
union. Each local is entitled to one
delegate for every 10 members.
Seattle's tax levy for 1924 will show
a net increase of 3,757 mills over the
rate for this year, according to the
final summary of approved budgets
for city, county, port and school dis
tricts, added to the levy for state par.
poses. The total levy for 1923 was
6S.13 mills, ar increase of approx
mately 4 mills over the preceding
year. The 1924 ate will be 1887
mills.
BY a coincidence of chance Percy
L. Sinclair was one of the IL chosen
from the southern district of Pacific
county to begin service October Is as
petit juror. Sinclair's trial was set
for the same date in the Pacific coun-
ty superior court on a charge of sub
hitting false statement to the state
bank examiner in connection with the
failure of the Southwestern Washing
ton bank of Ilwaco.
According to the budget for next
year, passed by the Yakima city com
mission, plans are made for spending
$42O,757. All this is to be raised by
taxation, except $125,4O6 which it is
estimated viii come from licenses,
fines and bond fo~rfeitures. Salaries
of fire and police chiefs was raised
to $500 q month, while Street Foreman
Ernest Hamilton gets the same, Civ
ing him a raise of 1870 a year.
The synodical meeting of the wo-
mans home and foreign missionary
societies of the Presbyterian church
of the state of Washington held Ia
Walla Walla, ended with the selection
of Vancouver, Wash, as the next
meeting place. Officers were elected
as follows: Mrs. J.. c. Porter, Seattl6
president; Mrs. A. C. Baker, Spokane,
first vi~ce-president; Mrs. Hugh Nc.
Master, Camas, second vice-president.
A decision of Judge Dykeman of the
King county superior court will, if
upheld by the supreme court, moan an
increase of hundreds of thousands OF
dollars to the states income and In
heritance taxes, according to the tax
officials Of the state. It has been the
custom In cases of some large estates
to hold them intact, and passing over
the estate after the death of bene.
ficiaries without further probate, thus
avoiding the inheritance tax. Judge
Dykeman held that such trust estates
must pay the inheritance tax on the
bulk sum transferred to the trustee.
The decision was in the estate Of