Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-25
Washington State News

in northwestern Lewis county blew
up.
Action to test the validity of with.
drawals of signatures from initiative
or referendum petitions, upon request
of the signers, after such petitions are
in the hands of the secretary of state.
was filed with the state supreme
court.
Ned Crofoot, 4-year-old son Of ].
E. Crofoot, while playing with
matches, started a fire that destroyed
a big farm on the CrOfoot ranch near
Okanogan with a large quantity Of
hay and all farm harness and nipple
ments.
A proposal to have stricken the
provision requiring complaints in
divorce cases to be filed 30 days be-
fore trial was voted down at the an.
nual convention at Seattle of the As
ISOLATION of Superior Court Judges of
Washington.
Approximately 1900 men in Wash
ington are under the parole system
and are earning an average OF S72
a month, J. Howard Shattuck, state
parole officer, told sheriffs and peace
officers at their annual state con,
vention at Yakima.
The federal trade commission com.
plant against the Douglas Fir Elk.
ploitation and Export company, charg-
ing an attempt to monopolize the
lumber export business of the Pacific
coast, was dismissed by the commits
sion without prejudice.
Forty-four carloads of lambs were
shipped to the Chicago market Friday
by four Yakima sheepmen. Waechter
Bros. loaded % cars at Toppenish;
Pete Agor, four at Naches; A. Mat
son, nine at White Swan, and H. o.
Kohler, eight at Gle Elum.
Indian ponies running wild invaded
the ranch of Walter Hall near Wiley
City, who fired at them with a shot
gun with disastrous results. One pony
was killed by the shot, and another
so manned that 1t had to be killed.
Warrants were Issued for Halls arrest.
The 9th annual convention at
Yakima Of the state sheriffs' asso-
citation, was enlivened by a suggestion
by Senator D. V. Morthland that per
haps one Of the most potent retafders
of juvenile crime would be for the
state to give the power of spanking
to sheriffs.
Oregon and California are discrimi-
mating against Washington in direct
ing tourist traffic up the Columbia
river highway instead of north to
Seattle and then over the Washing
ton passes, Stephen Chadwick, Seat
tie attorney, told members of the
Lions club at Wenatchee.
Walter j. Robinson of Garfield,
manager of the Washington Wheat
Growers association, declared in
statement at Spokane that he will
file for the democratic nomination
for governor, unless some candidate
interested in the farmers problems
with possibility Of being elected"
enters the race.
A complaint charging conspiracy
in restraint of trade and alleged un-
fair price-fixing was filed in federal
court at Seattle against more than 20
prominent commission merchants I'M
der the name Of the Seattle Produce
association by Cornelius Hughes,
special assistant to the United States
encouragement.
Goose Lake, located in the Column
bia national forest in Skamania coun-
ty and known as e fishermen's and
hunters paradise, has again become
so void of water that the lake has
been closed to fishing.
One lot of turkey red wheat, 900
bushels, was sold last week for S125
net I. o. b. Eureka. William Struthers,
Eureka flat farmer. made the sale
to the Jones-Scott company. This was
the record price for the season.