Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-18

! of the 27,335 acres Of public lands il
! Benton and Kittitas counties recently
offered for leasing has been taken
The tracts are grazing lands, which
are in demand now because of i'm.
provement in the stock and wool
markets. Other lands in eastern Wash.
ington win be offered in the near fu.
ture.
mitteemen of eastern Washington met
in Spokane with c. B. Fitzgerald Of
Seattle, republican state chairman,
and N q. Richenda- - " ,szs..la. renub-
lican national committeeman, to con
slider plans for the coming campaign.
Combined efforts of the police and
fire departments and several King
county deputy sheriffs were required
to remove John P. Anderson, 35, 3
world war veteran, from trolley line
guy wire, where he had climbed after
escaping from the sheriffs office in
J Seattle.
Game Warden Leichhardt Of Cow
litz county win begin distributing $780,
900 eastern brook trout fry which have
been in! rearing ponds at the Kalama
river hatchery for the past two months
since they were taken there from the
Chambers creek hatchery, Pierce coun-
ty, where they were propagated.
An order stopping the issuance of
fire permits in forest areas of the
state until the weather becomes less
favorable to forest fires, was issued
by Dan A. Scott, director Of conserva-
tion and development, upon the advice
of Fred E. Pape. forest supervisor.
All permits already issued were sus-
pended.
Beginning Of actual construction on
the Trinidad-Rock Island portion Of
the new state highway from Wenat-
chez to Spokane was celebrated at
Wenatchee by visit of Governor
Hart. Senator P. H. Carlyon, District
Engineer Guy G. Harvey, superintend-
ent J. NJ. Doyle Of the Great Northern,
and others. Steam shovel work began
Monday.
Lumber production in western Wash
ington and Oregon for the first six
months Of this year was s.0e per cent
Iessethan for the same period in 1898,
according to two reports issued by
the West Coast Lumbermen's assO-
citation. Sales have been 9.97 per
cent less than in 1898 and shipments
SIG per cent lower than in the same
period last year.
A permit to divert 10000 cubic feet
OF water a second from the Baker
river, a tributary of the Skagit river,
in Skagit county, was granted to the
Puget Sound Power and Light COM
pany of Seattle, by Marvin Chase,
state supervisor of hydraulics. The
power company will construct hydro
electric plant to develop $1,000 horse
power of electricity, according to its
application.
The Washington July crop report
shows, as compared with June /, that
the condition Of winter wheat drop
ped from So to 50 per cent of normal;
spring wheat. from 81 to 50; oats, from
70 te 90. and barley, from IS to 50.
The report. as issued by @. s. Ray,
Of the federal division Of crop and
livestock estimates, further shows q
small decrease in potato acreage and
an outlook for a considerably smaller
potato crop than was grown in 1898.
Fruit crops show little change from
last month.
Declarations of candidacy for most
Of the major state. and congressional
offices to be filled in the general cleo
ton in November are In the hands OF
the secretary of state. Five candidates
filed for governor as follows: Ed.
ward Clifford of Seattle, William J.
Coyle Of Seattle, E. L. French Of Van.
couver, Roland Hartley of Everett and
Thomas P. Revelle of Seattle. Fol-
lieutenant-goyernor three candidates
filed, as follows: Adam Beeler Of Sc
attic. Edwin S. Gill Of Seattle and
Fred G. Remain Of Tacoma. Five
filed for the congressional race: H
Alvin Moore and John F. Miller, botf
Of Seattle. for the first congressional
district; Lindley H. Bailey of Bell
ingham and c. T. Roscoe OF Everett
for the second district, and Alder
Johnson Of HoQuiam for the third dis
trict.
Edward L. Terry, city treasurer o
Seattle, accepted from County Treas
} urer Shields the city's share Of thu
principal of the 1919 taxes on thu
! municipal street railway system, a
the same time making formal protes
at the King county treasurer's refusa
to pay over a proportionate share 0
the interest collected for the delin
quency. @. L. Babcock, state treas
urer, also made formal demand OF
County Treasurer Shields for tn,
states proportionate share of interes
as well as Drincfpal. and Reuban W