Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-09-07

gram for the coming year.
Bankers OF Clarke county have
agreed to finance an advance OF s
cents a pound on all deliveries Of 1928
prunes made to the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation plant at Van
couver. which is operated by the as
sociation Of Clarke growers.
Ercel Thomson and Miss Vera Bur
lingame, both of Everett. we're killed
and Lester Mears, also of Everett was
seriously injured when the automobile
in which they were riding shidded
and turned over on the Pacific high
way between Bethel and Kenmore.
Congressman Albert johnson Of HO-
GUAM, chairman Of the house immi.
grafton committee, urged before the
Seattle Young Mems republican club
that annual immigration be restricted
to per cent Of the number Of the
immigrants countrymen already in
the United States.
The Monson- Trierweiler company.
Inc, Portland, Or. has received a con-
tract from the department Of the in
terror for constructing a 1SO-foot steel
cable highway bridge across the Mis-
Qually river in Mount Rainier national
park. The work is based on unit
prices, being estimated at $14,242.
Fire spreading from an old timber
dam on the Wishkah river, in Grays
Harbor county, being burned out by
county game warden to permit the
run Of fish upstream, got into the old
works of the Coits-Fordney Logging
company, requiring the sending of a
considerable force of men to the
scene.
Plans for north-and-south highway
through central Washington, east Of
the Cascades, to link up with Canadi-
an, Oregon and California roads now
in operation, were outlined at Spo-
kane by Samuel Hill. good roads ad-
vocate of Maryhill, at a special meet
ing of the trustees of the chamber of
commerce.
A 10OO-pound grizzly bear, one, Of
the most destructive stock-killing ami
mails in the state, was killed August
26 by State Hunter Peterson on HOl-
man creek in the Okanogan national
park, Okanogan county. On his last
rampage in the Robinson creek dis
trict, the grizzly killed IS head Of
cattle and destroyed a number of
sheep.
According to figures made public
by Willard T. Harrison, collector of
customs at Seattle, imports through
Seattle, in the year ending Juney3O
were $2S9,244,S82, while in the preced-
ing year the totals were 1924, ,6OS.
In export figures Seattle showed IA
loss, dropping to Ss7,4s2,287 in the
last year from s96,OSS,6S7 in the pre-
vious year.
Belief that report on the Columbia
basin irrigation project will be sub
mitted at the next session of con-
gress was expressed at Spokane by
F. M. Goodwin, assistant secretary Of
the interior. He said that Commits
sioner D. w. Davis of the reclamation
bureau and F. e. Weymouth, chief
engineer, are expected to visit the
project in September or October.
War is to be declared on the or
chard mouse. one of Washington's
most destructive rodent pests, accord
ing to Leo G. Couch, federal biological
assistant, at Olympia. This week and
next the biological survey, with the
aid of county officers, will begin the
distribution Of two tons Of poisoned
grain in Grant county and three tons
in Okanogan county, two districts
which are liable to be badly affected
this fall.
Yakima fruit warehouses are so
crowded with pears that there is
practically no space to store peaches,
though such storage is badly needed.
Whitman county farmers have
adopted the policy of discharging
any man found who carries red card,
signifying membership in the l. w. w.
A spectacular fire of undetermined
origin destroyed the apple packing
plant and warehouses of Baker & Co.
at White Salmon. The damage is es-
timated at $4,000.
The best authentic cat yield of the
season for the Pullman district is that
obtained by Robert Lyle, eight miles
west of Pullman, who reports an av-
erage OF iO2 bushels an acre.
The Washington Water Power com
pany is constructing unit. to its ST.
milkameen power plant The unit will
double the capacity of the plant,
bringing 1t to 1900 horsepower.
Forest fires are raging in many
parts of western Washington, Lieuten-
ant J. P. Powell. commander of the
361st air squadron, 96th division. de-
clared after a flight from Camn I.evvis