Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-01-05
Washington State News

sound from HARRINGTON. on the Great
Northern railway, 81 miles west Of
Spokane. has been disapproved IN a
report by C. I. Keppart, examiner for
the interstate commerce commission,
the Seattle chamber OF commerce was
advised. The rate on wheat from Har.
rington Is "a cents to Puget sound and
80 1-2 cents to Portland.
accommodation that waiter n.
Harvey. prominent Tacoma and Seattle
attorney. be permanently disbarred
from the practice OF law in Washing
ton was made to the supreme court by
the state board OF law examiners in
written findings. The findings de.
clared Harvey guilty Of fraudulent and
unprofessional conduct In three separ-
ate counts. each involving one or more
separate clients.
Having raised between $4,000 and
$4,000 by charging every student $40
aeyear at the time of registration. stu.
dents at Washington State College in
Pullman are at last hopeful that they
are going to have a new gymnasium.
The board Of regents of the state col
lege plan to petition this session Of
the state legislature for a sum equal
to that raised by the student body. pro-
viding that the fund thus obtained be
used in erecting a new gymnasium and
womens building.
The complete text of the state recla-
nation act. the state land settlement
act, the constitutional provision relative
to condemnation of land for reclama-
tion purposes and the state supreme
courts decision in the land settlement
test case are to be embodied in the re-
port of the congressional house COM
mittee on the bill to appropriate $780,.
900 for an investigation and report on
the Columbia basin project by the sec.
rotary of the interior. according to
Ivan e. Goodner, state reclamation en-.
gineer. who has returned from Wash.
ington.
Every purpose of the bill recently in,
troduced by Senator McNary for sur
vey of the Columbia river from Van.
couver to Priest Rapids and of the
Snake river from its mouth to Asotin
is covered in engineering reports al
ready made or soon to be made to con.
gress. Secretary Of War Weeks asserts
IN letter to Senator Jones of Wash.
ington, chairman of the senate com
merce committee. The McNary bill
provided for a survey to determine,
first, the feasibility of canalization for
barge navigation; second. for irrigat-
ing and retaining adjacent lands;
third, the development OF hydro-elec.
trio power.
The state of Washington will select
its first reforestation plant about the
first of the year If cruise of timber
now under way proves satisfactory,
according to d. A. Scott, director of
anu dCfOAopAAChbs 1T
timber area which is being considered
most favorably after a survey of sew.
eral areas throughout western Wash. !
ington is located in Pacific and Mason
counties. Reforestation is accomplish
ed best by taking second-growth timber
and protecting it from fire and other
destructive forces. according to Mr.
Scott. This policy viii be pursued in
this state. as reseeding land is not
necessary.
report at Washington, D. c., that
10000 cars Of apples had been dumped
into the Columbia river by apple grow.
ers in washington state because of q
lack of cars to transport them to mar.
ket brought sharp denials from the
traffic managers of both the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail-
roads in kilograms from their St. Paul
offices. Such a report received the
widest publicity when Smith w. Brook
hart. senator from Iowa, placed in the
record Of the senate a CODY OF tele.