Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-06-13
Washington State News

last February.
The Anacortes city council passed
an order forbiddine lawn and garden
sprinkling and car washing by use OF
3 hose due to prospective water short
age. The action Is expected to be
temporary only. and will be cancelled
IL city wells now being developed yield
the water anticipated.
The CowlitE county commissioners
issued a franchise to the town OF
Kaiama for installation Of a gravity
water system pipeline from Italian
creek along the William Weight, Ka-
lama river and Fallert roads. An ex-
tension of the Stankey road near near
Silver lake was also established.
Kathleen Browning Of Ellensburg
is the Washington state winner in the
essay contest conducted by the war
department on the subject, why .
Young Man Know Should Attend
the Training Camp it il announced
by Captain C. A. Lundy. in charge eft
the officers reserve corps at Spokane.
The Federal Land bank Of Spokane
closed 2oS first mortgage loans dur
/ ing May for s640.Seo. THIS briaGs the
total to date up to S2,601 loans elossa
for approximately s0s.oeO.O 900. Amort.
ised payments over the seven years
the bank has been operating have re-
duced the amount Of loans now out.
standing to about $50 200, 900.
The Washington State Grange in
session At Vancouver decided to hold
its 1895 convention ct Pullman. the
only city appearing for the henor Of
entertaining the grangsrs. Long Beach
has extended IN invitation to meet In
that city in 1897, which VII be the
first year in which the cOnveAtlon
will again be held west Of the Cas-
cade range.
Following a conference in Mount
Vernon with fo1r men Of standing In
Tacoma, accused Of an $4,000 holduD
Of the Citisens' State bank ct Ana
cortes, April /, Prosecuting Attorney
Gilbert announced that charges against
them would not be dropped. The four
men are David w. Nadeau, Russell h.
Evans, Lawrence H. Lee and Warren
L. Ridley. who are at liberty on bonds
Of $1,000 each.
A report made at directors meet
ing OF the Washington Growers Pack.
ing association at Vancouver showed
that growers owning $40 acres OF
bearing prane horchards had signed
to market their crops through the as
ISOLATION for another five-year period,
extending from 1895 when the old five
year agreements expire. Only $500
acres were required to make the as
sociation a success.
Construction OF a $4,000 plant for
the manufacture OF fuel from coal
slack and sawdust has been started
by the Peoples Fuel company on a
six-acre site near the Bellingham coal
mine. The plant will have a daily ca
pacity of 100 tons.
J. D. Hanley, who has the contract
for Kelso's $4,000 water filtration
plant, will have the plant completed
ready for installation OF pumps and
other equipment by July /, and It viii
be In operation some time in July, Civ
ing Kslso the purest water.
BY decision Of the state supreme
court William VoiSht loses his fight
to obtain his release on habeas corpus
proceedings from the state peniten-
tiary, where he lie serving a life SEN
tence for q murder committed in
Clarke county in 1918. Weight was SEN
fenced by the court wholly upon his
plea Of guilty to the charge Of first
degree murder without the impaneling
Of jury to hear the evidence, de-
termiAe the degree Of guilt and fix the
penalty As provided by law, where de-
PENDANT pleads guilty.
Another angle in the Mount Rainier
controversy presented itself when q
teller in one Of the Seattle banks OBJ
served the name Tacoma" had been
crossed out in two places and me
word Rainier" written in ink over Il
on a $40 note issued by the Puget
Sound National bank OF Tacoma. Al
though there was no attempt to raise
the denomination of the bank note,
federal operatives became interested
and were seeking the artist who ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with the
governments design of this particular
issue of currency.
Distraint on 100000 worth Of
property of the Puget Sound Light &
Power company to collect $652,190
taxes on the Seattle streetcar system
for 1919. was upheld by three judges
in the United States district court for
western Washington. The court held
that state laws required officers Of
King county, in which Seattle is situat-
ed, to levy for delinquent taxes. The