Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-04
Washington State News

D. Hall Of Clarke county was re-eleet-.
ed secretary and treasurer Of the state
prosecutors association at the annual
convention held in Spokane
Fire believed to have started from
an overheated stove in a restaurant
caused damage estimated at $4,000
in Deming, 10 miles east Of Belling
ham. The fire destroyed 3 number OF
frame buildings in the business dis
trict, including the postoffice.
Russell R. Evans. reputed wealthy
glass can manufacturer, ex-conyict and
one of the four prominent Tacomans
recently arrested and accused Of the
$4,000 robbery Of the Citizens State
bank Of Anacortes will be held by the
state to account for the holdup.
James Mcintosh, said to be 3,
wealthy planning mill owner Of Stock
ton, Cal, was charged with kidnap-
ing his two nephews. Arthur Mcintosh,
age II, and Jack Mcintosh, age 8, in
complaint filed in justice court at
Seattle by Deputy Prosecutor Ralph
Hammer.
The sum of $4,000 toward another
dividend for the depositors of the de-
funct northumberland bank Of
Tacoma was made available when the
supreme court decided against the Ma.
tional Surety company, holding the
firm liable to the extent of its surety
bond for that amount.
Motions for dismissal of charges
against David w. Nadeau. Lawrence
H. Lee and Warren L. Ridley Of Ia
coma, who were accused of holding
up the Citizens State bank of Ana
cortes. April IA, were filed in the
Skagit county superior court at Mount
Vernon by Prosecutor Gilbert.
Judge Everett Smith dismissed a
suit at Vancouver for an injunction
filed by opponents of the Shillapoo-
Vancouver lake drainage project
against the county commissioners to
restrain them from selling the bonds
and letting contracts for the construc-
ton work. The case will be appealed
to the supreme court.
Contracts for improving the North
Bank highway from Washougal east to
the Clarke county line probably will
be let this fall. The distance is four
miles and the cost will approximate
100000, half of which will be paid by
the federal government and half from
interstate bridge tolls. The improve
ment will consist of grading and
crawling.
The bid of the Hedlund Box Lumber
company of Spokane on 337,12O,OOO
feet of ripe timber on $4,000 acres
comprising the Twin Lakes unit of
the Colyille Indian reservation, Wash
ington, was accepted by the interior
department. The bid was 1915 a
Thousand feet for yellow pine and $1.O2
for Douglas fir and larch. Proceeds
will go to the Indians.
Instructions to call off the state fair
at Yakima for this year were issued
by Governor Hart to the director of
agriculture. The governor said that
calling off the state fair would not
necessarily mean that other fairs
would be prohibited. but If necessary
a quarantine order at any of the other
fairs would be issued, prohibiting the
exhibition of cloven-foot stock.
Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the dean
Of science in the University of Wash
ington and acting mayor Of Seattle,
in the absence Of DR.. Edwin ]. Brown,
mayor, at the democratic national con-
vention in New York city, has taken
personal charge Of the police depart
ment Mrs. Landes designated Cap
tain Claude G. Bannick, formerly chief
of the department to be her aid.
The state department Of the G. A.
R., in annual encampment at Everett,
approved a resolution submitted by
the Sons of Veterans, asking that the
name OF the group be changed to the
Sons of the g. A. R. The veterans also
gave approval to the resolution
memorializing congress to increase the
pensions of veterans and their widows.
The women's relief corps took a strong
stand against pacifism, following a
request to this effect made by the ma
tional department.
Contracts for road work on federal
projects in Washington were awarded
by United States District Engineer c.
H. Purcell of the federal bureau of
roads. Williams and Douglas of TIE
coma received contracts for two sec.
tions Of the new state highway be-
tween Yakima and Chehalis. Grading
and surfacing the Randle- Yakima
Purcell creek section went to this firm
for $1O2,S50, and grading and surfac-
ing the Randle- YaKima-G Gold Creek
section to the same firm for sos, 1855.
Award Of contract for a bridge
across the Bogachiel river in the