Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-09
Washington State News

Spokane.
An air flight record from San Fran
cisco to Vancouver barracks was
claimed by Lieutenant Colonel Jason
N. Walling. 7th infantry. Vancouver
barracks, and Lieutenant Oakley q.
Kelly, who made the trip in five hours
80 minutes.
Steve Brown, an iron m0ulder, his
son Frank. and Tom Blakeley were
drowned when an automobile in
which they were riding plunged
through an open span in the Eighth.
avenue-South drawbridge over the
Duwamish river in Seattle.
Trial Of the suit brought against
the city OF Tacoma by the Emergency
Fleet corporation for recovery on the
loan Of $234,00O made the city during
the war for improvement Of the tide
flats car line has been definitely set
for June rs in federal court at Ia
coma.
Christened by Miss .Margie Elliott
of Portland, Or, the heavy duty power
tender Highway, building at the plant
of the N. ]. Blanchard Boat company
in Seattle for the United States bureau
of roads, was launched. The vessel
will be used in carrying supplies in
connection with the building and re-
pair of roads in Alaska.
The state department of public
works has legal Jurisdiction as to
rates, facilities and service over ferry
boats other than those operated en-
tirely within one county. or those oper.
ated by county, city OF port, under
authority Of law according to an opin-
ion rendered by Attorney-General Dun
bar to Director Kuykendall.
A campaign to sell the stock of
the Vancouver 1895 centennial exposi-
ton at Vancouver will be inaugurated
as soon as the consent of the war
department to use the site of the old
Hudson Bay fort and the building of
the spruce cut-uD plant for the exposi-
ton is obtained. according to q re-
port of the finance committee.
Declaring that the fire season in
eastern Washington is advanced two
months over last year, and the con-
dition at present is drier than during
the hottest months last summer, tim.
Der protective associations Of eastern
Washington are urging upon state
forestry officials that a closed fire
season be proclaimed Immediately.
The state and county school appor-
tionment for April will give Yakima
city schools ss5,S46. Toppenish will
receive SIS, ISL, Wapato 916,7b5, Sunny.
side S14,s4e, Grandview s11.s20, selah
se7O4, Mckee S822s. Granger S691s,
Lower Naches S5171, Naches S4S7S,
zillah S479O, Nobhill sS65s, Wide Hol.
low S3316, Harrah s26Bs, Union Gap
$2247, Wiley City S1412, Fruitvale
s1245 and Broadway S1156.
Comparing closely with the official
estimates of the district horticultural
inspector for Kittitas county, esti
mates of fruit shipments made by H.
| A. Glen, district freight and passenger
agent for the Northern Pacific, for
the counties of Yakima and Benton
are as follows Apples, 10000 cars;
pears, $500; peaches, 700; plums and
prunes, 100; cherries, 1875; apricots,
10; Strawberries, 20; melons, $50;
total, 1896.
Contract for the construction and
installation of the entire machinery
equipment of the first unit power.
house of the Cushman power project,
$4,000 horsepower, was signed with the
Allis-Chambers company by Commits
sioner Dawson of the municipal light
department of Tacoma. The contract
price was S63O,7sO for the turbines,
generators, condensers, transformers
and minor equipment, and s495O for
installation.
Three Portlanders = L. L. Satter-
white, Miss Maxine Williams and R.
A. Lewis-are held at Kelso following
the death of James Turnbull, IL, son
of Christopher Turnbull. The lad was
run down and killed instantly by an
automobile and authorities later ar
rested the Satterwhite party at Castle
Rock. 1t was believed that the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
the one that sped on after hitting the
Turnbull lad.
Irrigation projects in eastern Wash
ington, which were constructed under
the supervision of the state, are in
good shape and are prepared to deliver
water at once, according to D. A. Scott,
director of conservation and develop
ment, after a Today inspection trip
of the projects. Farmers Of eastern
Washington have been availing them
selves Of the spring runoff and, al
though the season is backward gem
orally. many farmers have soaked up
their lands in preparation for an ex-