Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-06-01

foot embankment IN Seattle. resulted
n bis death At TIE city hospital He
was 81 years old.
The tventyflfth annual session Of
the Oregon. Washington and British
Columbia grand council Of the United
Travellers of,Amerlca win meet at Sc.
attic June and 2.
An ordinance to increase fares on
the Seattle municipal street car sys-
tenn from cents to 10 cents cash or
1-S cents on tokens was vetoed BY
Mayor Edwin J. Brown
Gus Main. 20. was fatally injured
and three others badly hurt when an
automobile In which they were riding
crashed into the bulkhead OF q bridge
between Gold Bar and Sultan.
Mrs. Amanda Wyman, aged 101, and
probably one Of the oldest living mem.
bers of the Eastern Star in the United
States, died at the home of her son,
Elder C. A. Wyman. at Olympia.
After arresting and falling one man
at Auburn. C. J. Bush. a special agent
for the Northern Pacific, was himself
held up by second man, robbed OF
his pistol and $40 In cash and tied "a
a tree. 4
Mrs. Blissy Moxley, said to be more
than 100 years old. died at her home
on the Indian reservation near Oak.
vile. She represented the first of
five generations residing on the reser-
walton.
A resolution "emphatically denounc.
ing" the order Of Under-Secretary Gil
bert of the treasury department al.
locating 14,5OO,O0O ounces Of silver
purchased under the Pittman act to
restoration Of subsidiary coinage was
adopted by the Northwest Mining
Mems association in convention at
Spokane,
fwenty-four hundred acres of ranch
land under the Matches Cowyche ditch
were without water for several days
because of forty foot break n &
steel flume that forms part OF the
system,
Jealousy over an imaginary rival for
the affections of his 17-year-old sweet
heart led Donald Fleming, age IS, son
Of Chief OF Police q. G. Fleming Of
Toppenish, to shoot himself through
the head.
Five out of IS applicants who took
the recent examinations held at Olym-
pia and at Spokane are entitled to
licenses as certified public account
ants the department Of licenses has
announced.
Lumber shipments by water from
north Pacific ports totaled S.402,S16.-
$50 feet for 1892, according to figures
Of the Pacific lumber inspection bur-
eau. Shipments by water for 1921
were 1866, 1898, 4S2 feet.
Vancouver Barracks will be nearly
deserted after this week and through
out the summer few brigade officers,
members of the hospital corps and
quartermaster department and guards
will occupy the barracks alone.
Sentence to be hanged at the Walla
Walla penitentiary June 25 was pass
ed on Kakuzo Yanai by Superior Judge
French at Seattle Kakuzo was con-
victed of fatally shooting Fred Kama
zawa, proprietor Of pool hall.
For the past two weeks Indians from
the Methow, omak and Nespelem re-
gions have been camped on Badger
mountain and at Moses coulee, near
Waterville, digging camas. This lie an
annual event for the Indians.
The Smith-Reynolds American Lee
gion post at Vancouver owes S16S.6s2,
according to a petition filed in super
Tor court by Charles Watts, receiver
for the post. To meet this indebted
ness the post has but $4,000 in assets.
The heaviest pack in history is in.
prospect at the eannery Of the Ore
gon Packing company at Vancouver.
When the strawberry season is at its
height between 700 and 800 men and
women will be employed at the plant.
The hearing aimed at investigating
Seattle's terminal problems. ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion at the instigation OF the war de-
partment, will not be heard until fall.
according to information from olym-
pia.
Checking up surveys, nearly com
pleted by engineers, show that more
than 1880 acres will be covered by