Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-18

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and have begun work.
Elder H. W. Cottereil q Walla
walla, president Of the North Pacific
union conference OF the Adventist
church, embracing Washington. Idaho,
Oregon, Montana and Alaska, has re-
signed. owing to III health.
Standardization Of requirements Of
Baptist ministers in washington and
provisions for uniform ordination we're
voted at the seth annual convention
of the Baptist church Of western
Washington. held at Tacoma.
At the suggestion Of $50 Inland En-
pire educators who attended a con
ference at the state college at Pull
man, the event will be made part Of
the regular spring program Of the de-
partment of education Of the college
annually.
Six acres of the standifer steel
shipyard site at Vancouver which Is
now in the hands Of the port Of Van
couver, viii be leased by the North.
western Equipment company Of Sc
attic, which plans to build a branch
plant there.
An echo of the old Everett fight re-
lative to the use of telechronometer
for measured telephone service has
reached the department of public
works again through the filing, by At
] torneys Roberts and Skeel Of Seattle,
| representing the Telechronometer COM
pany of America, of petition of 1900
names of telephone subscribers in
Everett, asking for the restoration OF
the measured service and rate SEIZED
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Thomas G. Bishop. GA. one OF the
most prominent and influential IN
dams In the northwest, and one Of the
organizers and former presidents Of
the Northwest Federation of Amer
lean Indians. died Saturday at Wash
Ington, D. C.
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ports from Wallace of the recovery
from Mrs. E. ]. Hicks of s27OO alleged
to have been stolen year ago by her
husband from q mail sack at kellogg,
Idaho. This leaves unaccounted for
$4,000 of the loot.
Strauss Bascule Bridge company of
Chicago has filed with the Seattle
city council claim for 100000 dam
ages. alleging that City Engineer J.
D. Blackwell had made a "libelous
statement" concerning 1t in q letter
to the board Of public works.
Reductions ranging from to 10 per
cent in residential lighting rates and
from l to 10 per cent in commercial
lighting rates are called for in tariffs
filed with the department of public
works for the city OF Seattle by the
Puget Sound Power & Light company,
to become effective June /.
Application for appropriation OF the
waters Of Klickitat river for irrigation
projects to be constructed by the
Grand Dalles Irrigation Canal COM
pany, totaling $3.50 acres in Klickitat
county, has been made to the state
division Of hydraulics. Estimated cost
of the project is given at 100000.
Two suits against the c., NJ. & st.
P. railway company, totaling $47,72O,
have been filed in superior court at
Ellensburg by John Parkes, who was
seriously injured, his wife instantly
killed and their automobile demolish-
ed in a crossing collision on the out
skirts of Ellensburg in April 1922.
Gross mismanagement of the affairs
of the Franklin county irrigation dis
trict combined with serious shortages
in financial accounts were charged
against former officials of the district
in report compiled by Examiner A.
j. Hoskin, department Of efficiency,
and filed with Attorney General Dun
bar.
A record April catch was made by
state, federal and cooperative hunters
last month, according to Predatory
Animal Inspector Bach. There were.
26s animals captured, an average Of
fourteen per man. They included eight
bobcats, one stock-killing bear, 10
adult coyotes, 146 coyote pups, one
fox and two badgers
The May / crop report for Washing
ton forecasts winter wheat crop con
siderably larger than 1922 and in ex-
cess Of the average for the past ten
years. The report, as issued by G. s.
Ray. further indicates a slight increase
in Washington's hay acreage as COM
pared with last year. Spring blowing
and PLANTING have made fine proRress.