Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-06-06
Washington State News

OF labor shortage, as many growers,
because Of frost. win work for others.
At a gathering Of Colfax business
men and the American Legion it was
decided to hold celebration on July
4. Business men asked the American
legion to take charge and promised
to give financial support. A commit
tee will go around within the next few
days for subscriptions. The celebra-
tion will be much larger than ever
before.
Announcement was made by Briga-
dier Maurice Thompson, adjutant-gen-
eral of the Washington national guard,
of receipt Of orders from the war de-
partment extending federal recogni-
ton to @. B. Blethen. publisher of the
Seattle Times, as a brigadier-general
of the first line. General Blethen will
command the s1st infantry brigade,
41st division.
The battle over changing the name
of Mount Rainier and Rainier national
park to Mount Tacoma and Tacoma
national park, respectively, has been
adjourned so far as the present SEES
sion Of congress is concerned. Under.
standing has been reached that moth,
ing shall be done and the public lands
committee will not conduct hearings
| until fho nawt aoa.to~
The state department Of public
works gave permission to rail carriers
in the state to lower intrastate ex-
press rates to agree with the lowered
rate made by the decision Of the inter-
state commerce commission on inter-
state rates some time ago. The re-
duction will amount to about 10 per
cent cut in the rates now in force.
The new rates viii be effective
June 81.
After having been released from the
Mt. Vernon jail on $4,000 ban each,
David w. Nadeau, Russell r. Evans,
Warren L. Ridley and Lawrence w.
Lee, the four Tacomans accused in
the robbery of the Citizens National
bank there last April, expressed conf
dence they will never be brought to
trial. They were bitter in their de-
nunciation of the treatment accorded
them by the officials, and ridiculed the
idea Of connecting them with the rob
berry.
Eighty-six live fish out Of 162 live
fish sent through the whirling blades
of water turbine in the University
Of Washington hydraulics laboratory
were killed during an experiment to
determine whether fish could success
fully go through the machinery, it was
announced by four members of the in
stitution's faculty. The turbine,
through which the fish were sent,
carried a pressure of 80 pounds. The
fish we're caught in a net at the out
let of the machine. Eighty-three sal
mon and three perch were killed.
Railroads have no legal right to
charge shippers Of live stock for dis
injecting cattle cars used in interstate
shipments, advised Frank R. Spinning,
assistant director of public works.
Under the provisions of the foot and
mouth quarantine order in. force all
intrastate shipments Of cattle must be
in cars which have been cleaned and
disinfected subsequent to February Is
last Railroads Of the state have been
charging shippers $3.50 a car for this
service. Mr.. Spinning said he was in
formed.
Attorneys for the state department
Of public works and for the large cities
of the state decided in a meeting held
at Tacoma to file a petition for re-
hearing Of the telephone case in the
United States supreme court before
the expiration of the present term Of
the court, June s. In a decision hand
ed down recently by Chief Justice
Taft of the United States supreme
court the district federal court here
was reversed, the supreme court hold
I ing that the telephone company may
apply for increased rates in the federal
court If exhausting the statutory RENE
dies Of the state courts.
| An investigation of the cost Of pro-
ducing logs in Washington and British
Columbia was opened in Seattle last
week by Franklyn Smith of Washing
ton, D. c., chief of the lumber division
of the federal tariff commission, as a
result Of complaints of the Bloedel-
Donovan Lumber company of Seattle.
and other Washington companies
against the duty of 81 per 1000 board
feet assessed against logs brought into
the United States from British Co
lumbia. Accounts of approximately
go lumber companies will be examined
in the Puget sound region. The cost
figures will cover the last three
months of 1922, all of 1928 and the
first three months of 1924. Mr.. Smiths
report will be filed with the tariff com
mission, which, In turn, will make
recommendation to President Cool.