Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-15

Upon protest filed by the city OF
Spokane against the new gas rates
filed with the state department OF
public works by the Spokane Gas &
Fuel company, the department has is
sued an order suspending the new
rates for period of 30 days.
An explosion. believed by members
OF the dry squad to have been from a
still on the second fleOr. nearly wreck.
ed fOur-story building in Seattle, i'm.
periled the lives of more than q score
OF persons in the structure and caus-
ed an estimated fire damage of $780,.
600.
Officers elected at the Washington
State Holstein-Friesian association
meeting at Mount Vernon were as
follows: Harvey R. Shoultes Of Adna,
Lewis county, reelected president;
Thomas J. Owens, Kirkland, vice.
president; E. Hoem, snohomish, treas
urer.
High price record for a single sec
ton of timber sold at state sale was
again broken at the sale last week
when the Long Bell Lumber company
paid the appraised value of $1S5,144
for a section of timber IN Cowlitz
county. This does not include the
land.
J. B. Stevenson Of Pomeroy was
elected president of the Pacific North
west Hardware and Implement asso-
citation, in session at Spokane, and A.
2. Wells of Wenatchee was reelected
president of the hardware underwent
ers' insurance department of the as
ISOLATION.
An appeal has been made by the
publicity committee OF the Seattle
chamber of commerce to it's members
and to citizens of Washington state,
business men and commercial organ
izations to drop the use of Wash"
and 'Wn." in letters and to write it
Washington"
Adams county commissioners have
voted to complete three miles of road
between permanent highway No. and
seven miles Of graveled road east of
Othello. Completion of this stretch,
uniting these two roads, will give a
well graded surface road from Othello
to Cunningham.
Representatives Summers and Hill
Of Washington appeared before the ag-
ricuftural subcommittee Of the hous
appropriations committee in behalf OF
an increased appropriation for study
of fruit diseases. The money would
be used for maintaining the govern
ment laboratory at Wenatchee.
By decision OF the state supreme
court, UNFOLDING the states alfalfa
weevil quarantine against southern
Idaho and certain other territory, ad-
Indication is given the states right of
quarantine against designated pro-
ducts from specified areas, common
ly known as a blanket quarantine.
Discovery of a new dry kiln process
for seasoning lumber was announced
by Albert Hermann Of Portland, Or,
who told the members Of the Western
Pine Manufacturers association, in
session at Spokane, that it would eff
feet a saving of approximately 20 per
cent in the cost of drying their pro
duct.
Senator c. c. Dill is to introduce
a resolution in the United States SEN
ate demanding publication Of the Sc
cret report OF the investigation into
the prohibition enforcement situation
in this state conducted by federal in
vestigators recently, according to a
confidential telegram received in Ia
coma from Washington, D. c.
The milling industry OF the north
west is on decline and the turn has
not yet come, according to Ed Leonard
Of the Preston Shaffer mills Of Waits
burg. In the three states, Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, there is suf-
ficient milling capacity to grind into
flour in eight months all the wheat
raised in the three states in any year.
Samuel H. Short, former Seattle
patrolman. was acquitted by Jury in
superior court OF a manslaughter
charge in connection with the fatal
shooting Of Isaac Hamburger, secre-
tary to Federal Judge E. e. Cushman
of Tacoma. and the wounding OF Mrs.
Violet Davis OF Seattle, October II,
while attempting to stop a pair of al
legged shoplifters in the business sec
tion Of the city.
A bodybuilding program that will
cost approximately 100000 and open
the Chelatchie valley, in the northern
part Of Clarke county, a section that
has been held hack through lack Of
roads, has been adopted By the Clarke
county commissioners, who appropriat.
ed $4,000 from the general road and
bridge fund to clear, grade and drain
the road from La Center 70 Amboy
bv waV Of FarRher lake. a distance Of