Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-09-14

Compliant OF dairymen who are SEN
mg raw milk IN Seattle that they are
harasssd and prosecuted by the city
health department was temporarily
sustained in the superior court here
when Judge Everett Smith overruIed
: demurrer filed on behalf OF the city
and ordered that the case be tried on
It's merits.
The county game commission has no
authority or power to close the season
N part Of county; nor can a game,
preserve less than the entire county
Oe created with the consent Of the own
'rs OF the private land involved, so
IN opinion by Attorney General Dun
oar to the King county game commits
zion says.
An organized gang of rum-runners,
with their own steamers and high
power motorcars, makes a regular
practice of paying salaries to its lieu
tenants who get into jail, and makes
Iuch profits hat fines are Intellectual,
we're statements made by Police Judge
Smith before teachers Of Grays Har-
Dor county.
How they overpowered armed Rus
Iian guards who had been stationed on
heir vessel after it had been seized st
Anadyr, Siberia, and then sailed out
IT the harbor at night in the teeth of
l gale to escape to American waters
was related by members of the crew of
he trading schooner Iskum, which ar
rived in Seattle from Nome, Alaska.
Reused at 2:30 o'clock in the morn
ng by the changing of the school bell,
bucket brigade of fifty men, com
prising virtually the entire male pop
llation, saved the little town of Cum
Derland, eight miles northeast of
Enumclaw, from total destruction by
lire. The principal business center Of
the village was burned, the loss being
placed at $4,000.
With the completion of the section
Of hard-surface pavement between
Kalama and Toledo next month a
celebration will be held to tell the
world that the Pacific highway is
hard-surfaced from Vancouver, B. O.,
to the Oregon-C California line. The
celebration is to consist of a pro
gramme at Olympia, October "a, and
1T Salem, Or, October %.
The radical proclivities of the Seat
tie central labor council, its represen-
tation at the Moscow International
and support of the soviet government
Of Russia will be considered at q spe-
cial meeting of the executive council
If the American Federation of Labor
to be held in Portland a few days in
advance of the fedsration's annual con-
Vention, which opens in that city Oc-
lober /.
Frank Kepl and Benton Warner,
believed by State Prohibition Director
Roy c. Lyle to be the first men ever
convicted of airplane liquor running
in the United States, were released on
bonds of $4,000 and $4,000 respectively
IN United States district court at Spo-
kane, to appear for sentence Septem-
Der Is. They were found guilty by q
Jury on a charge Of conspiracy to. vio-
late the prohibition laws
Persons who wish to do any build
Ing in Bellingham and wish to obtain
building permit must first obtain
clearance and pay industrial insurance
fees at the local office of the depart
ment of labor and industries, accord
ing to an agreement reached between
Ben F. Hammond. director in charge,
and City Comptroller Charles Al Nc
Lehman. The neglect Of a good many
persons to pay the state fees led to
this action.
The commission merchants license
law Is discriminatory, unconstitution-
al and void, Judge Wilson, of the
Thurston county superior court de.
clared in the test case brought By
&c. w. Chamberlain & Co. and others
a0aiaat a T. Tranch diracfor NJ the