Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-09-28


tive Packing company, auxiliary Of the
North Pacific Cooperative Berry
Growers, aggregated about 100000.
A proposal to build fence around
the athletic field at the Vancouver
high school In order to force speeta-
tors of football and other games to
pay admission, is being considered by
school authorities and civic organiza-
tions.
Lachrymal lozenges or tear gas
bombs are to be used by the Spokane
police in attacking barricaded erin.
lnals, according to announcement
made by Chief Wesley Turner after
an order for the bombs had been
placed.
: robber who entered the Rainier
loan office in Seattle knocked A. N.
LSVy, proprietor, unconscious with a
heavy instrument and escaped with
an undetermined amount of money
from the office safe and gold coins
valued at $500.
Bachelor Island slough, west of
Ridgefield and Lewis river, a few miles
northeast. are affording good angling
to fishermen. Good catches of var
ious varieties of fish, including sal
mon trout, steelhead trout and crap
pies are made.
DR.. H. ]. Whitacre of Tacoma was
reelected president of the Public
Health league of Washington at its
annual meeting at Spokane held in
connection with the fifth annual SEES
sion of the Washington State Medical
association.
The drainage of 1000 acres of land
on the Columbia river about Washou.
gal has been held up for this season by
the fact that ensilage crops on the
area to be drained would be trampled
down If survey of the project was
undertaken at this time.
Suit for recovery of a penalty of
25 cents a bushel for wheat marketed
outside of the Washington Grain Grow
ers' association, in alleged violation of
their. contracts as members, has been
instituted against four farmers of Col
fax on behalf of the association.
The National Surety company must
pay $4,000 to creditors of the defunct
Observation-Disclosures bank of Ia
coma because of alleged fraud com
mitted by Ole Larson, president of the
bank. This is the ruling made by
w. o. Chapman, superior court judge
at Tacoma.
Tnugs SET upon seven young men
riding on top of a Great Northern
freight train near Fort Wright, killed
one, wounded another and struck two
others over the head with guns. The
dead mans body was kicked from the
train after the pockets of his clothes
had been searched. All were robbed.
In order to get actual experience for
constructing bridges over large rivers
in time of war, army engineers COM
menced Monday constructing a wood
en- truss bridge valued at $4,000 over
the Elwha river, fifteen miles west
of Port Angeles, at point known as
the cable crossing, Elwha ranger sta
ton.
The home of Sheriff Mike Moran in
Republic was dynamited, but the
sheriff and his wife and two children
escaped injury. The explosive evil
IDENTIFY was placed under a rear corn
er and its force tore away the side
of the building. The family's sleep
ing quarters were on the opposite side
of the house.
Deposits received ON the last day
before the Observation-Disclosures
bank of Seattle and the Citizens bank
of Georgetown were closed must be
considered as general deposits and
held with the other assets of the in
situations, the supreme court decided
in two en- banc opinions reversing
judgment of the King county superior
court.
H. V. Mooring of Seattle, federal
prohibition agent, was critically shot
by one Of four men in an automobile
who followed him after a party Of
which he was member had visited
poolroom in Cosmopolis. Gilmore Todd
and H. H. Smith, operators of cigar
store in Cosmopolis, we're arrested.
The other two men from the auto
mobile escaped.
E. v. Kuykendall, director of public
works, announced that he had request
ed state commissions of other states
to join in urging that added revenues
earned by the American Railway Ex-
press company from increased traffic
since the close of hearings in the ma
tion-wide express rate case be con-
sidered by the interstate commerce
commission in determining new ex-
press rates.
Discovery of the first case Of an
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