Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-05

serves that have been eatabllsnsd4in
Lewis county.
Potter C. Sullivan, Tacoma city at
torney and ex-repnblican national com
mitteeman. died at his home IN la
coma following paralytic stroke. He
was widely known throughout the Pa
cific northwest.
A new worlds record for silage eern
was shown at Grandview when Coun-
ty Agent A. e. Lovett weighed an
acre of corn raised by S. D. Cornell.
The final check showed little more
than % tons to the acre.
Charles @. Grader was found guilty
of manslaughter by q superior court
jury at Montesano. Grader killed.
Mike Barron with a rifle near Tulips,
July II, following a fight growing out
of the trespassing of Barron's cattle
on Graders land.
Francis Ahnlund, Seattle. was elect
ed secretary of the Pacific coast
Swedish mission conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in session
at Spokane; Rev. c. w. Bergquist,
Pasadena, Cal, was elected treasurer
and Rev, K. o. Berglund, Tacoma, was
elected statistician and registrar.
A 10O-pound box of dynamite, was
discovered in the basement of the
Skagit county courthouse at Mount
Vernon. Sheriff Tipp Conn, who sleeps
about % feet from where the explo-
sive was found, expressed the belief
that a plot had been formed TO blow
nm the building HT'-sg7ss ysSs-ye~s4-.s-,.s ~
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The enlargement of the scope of
the United States public health hos
pital No. SO at Tacoma to include the
care of disabled ex-service women
from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Alaska is virtually assured, it is an
nounced by Colonel George B. Story,
officer in charge of the hospital.
Invasion of the yellow pine market
Of the South by Douglas fir from Pa
cific northwest has reached the CEN
ter of the pine country, according to
officials of the National Lumber and
Box Manufacturing company OF Ho-
quiam, who announce an order for
100000 feet of local lumber for ship
ment to Jacksonville, Fla.
Investigation is being made of COM
plants that bank examiners have
opened mail addressed to State Sena-
tor P. L. Sinclair, at liberty on bail
on charges Of making false statements
of the affairs of the Southwestern
Washington bank of Ilwaco to exam
iners. Postoffice inspectors from Sc.
attic have been working on the case.
The Yakima field trials club will
hold four-day meet at Yakima, start
ing October q. The feature viii be a
derby and open classes for all-age
dogs. 1t will be the second time the
trials also will be open to dogs out
side of the valley. The Yakima dogs
will hold trials October 21-22. The
derby and all-age trials will be held
October 1924.
Receipts from this years state fair
at Yakima we're slightly under those
of 1922, according to H. P. Vermilye,
secretary. Receipts were $5O,5O7,
while last year they we're $50.653. No
report of disbursements has been
made, for there are a number of pre-.
MUM awards to be checked up. Re-
ported attendance from day to day
showed slight gain over last year.
Percy Sinclair, president of the
wrecked Southwestern Washington
bank of nwaco, will be brought to
trial in the superior court in South
Bend October IL on the charge OF
certifying to a false report on the
banks condition. The charge is based
on Sinclair's attestation of the state.
ment made to the state banking de
partment on June 30, showing the IL
waco bank to be in a flourishing con
dition, when the fact was that the
assets had long before been dissipat.
ed.
The foundation walls of the capitol
building at Olympia which were con.