Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-06

Pacific ol1tricts win Aea1QHEEL8f5 ~
Seattle, has submitted his resignation
and win engage in private business.
The state department of public
works has granted psrmiat|6 70 the
Seattle & Rainier valley railway to
install a weekly pass system pndsr
fourmonths' trial. commsnciz April
2.
Miss Jessie AspinwaIl. city treasurer
Of ElIensburg. has resigned q hcospt
position AZ manager Of - book
department OF 4 large store Il Ha-
vana. Cuba. She plans e lsass Ellens-
burg May /.
Pioneers Of the state last Saturday
gathered at a point Two miles north
of Auburn and unveiled = monument
to the memory Of those who died in
the famous battle of White River on
October 81. 1855.
Order Of disbarment against Edwin
H. Flick, Seattle attorney. was filed
in supreme court by Chief Justice
John F. Main. The action was taken
on Flick's own motion that his name
be stricken from the records.
Seattles city government has al
ready piled up a 1923 deficit Of ap-
proximately s25O,0OO despite the fact
that only one-fourth the fiscal year has
passed, Chairman Z. L. Blaine an
nounced to the council finance COM
mittee.
The national guard Of Washington
will go into summer encampment at
Camp Murray in June. and will receive
full state pay as well as federal pay,
Governor Hart. commander-in-chief of
the state military department. has an
nounced.
Pacific Sea Foods Packing company
will open its new cannery built at a
cost of $4,000 on the Little Hoquiam
river a few miles west Of HoqulAm
early in April. The first canning will
be OF Quinault salmon taken by the
Indians in Quinault river
Formation Of the Washington state
agricultural conference, composed Of
the Washington Farm Bureau fedora
ton, Washington State grange. and
United Dairy association and the
Washington Cooperative Egg and
Poultry association, was announced at
Seattle.
The first fire call Of the season, COM
ing earlier than ever before, was re-
ceived Friday by State Forester Pape.
A dry patch of ferns close to the
right of way Of the Northern Pacific
just east Of Olympia caught fire and
burned briskly, threatening q railroad
bridge.
Struck with baseball while watch
ing a game at Fife. near Tacoma, caus-
ing broken glass to penetrate an artery
In his left eye, NJ. D. Likes of orting.
a student OF the University of Waeh-
ington, was removed to the Tacoma
General hospital, where the eye was
removed.
Depletion of Americas forests as
sures higher prices for lumber. which
win continue to rise as the great for
ests disappear, F. w. Fordney. ex-
representative in congress and CO
author Of the Fordney-McCumbert tariff
measure. predicted in an address be-
fore the Tacoma Lumbermen's club.
In = sensational raid at CosmopClis,
$50 japanese employees Of the orays
Harbor Commercial company were sur
rounded in q boarding house and
searched by federal officers. Fifteen
japanese we're found Who could pro.
duce no passports and they VIII be
taken to Tacoma to face deportation
charges.
The body Of Miss Maggie Steen. Sc.
who disappeared from the home Of her
brother, an Ellensburg farmer, Janu-
airy s. was found in the hay loft OF
Fred Hinman. farmer residing "
miles from the steen home. Human.
discovered the body while throwing
hay to stock below. The woman had
burrowed deep into the loose hay and
suffocated.
That there is nothing in statutes to
prevent q city council. after original
local improvement proceedings Rave
been killed BY legal sufflciehcy q pro
tests from instituting new proceed
ings covering the same area or any
part thereof at any time thereafter,
the supreme court held in the case Of
the CascO company against the city
Of Olympia.
Clarke county's strawberry acreage
win be increased by more than 100
acres as q result Of the activities OF
representatives Of the Oregon Packing
company. which operates one Of the
largest canneries in the northwest IN