Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-07
Washington State News

OF the dairymen IL the district trfbui
tary to EIlensburs under contract, It
was announced b. L. L. sharp. chair.
man Of q special farm bureau coma
mittee In charge Of organization.
Seattle led San Francisco BY $685.
ss1.s71 in the value OF goods passing
into the port from foreign countries
during 1923. according to statistics re-
ceived from Washington, D. c., By
Collector Of Customs Harrison. Fig
ures for the ~ months showed Sc
attle's imports amounted to S2e2, 1885,
ss7.
Passage OF the McNary- EIaugen bill
win mean s50,O00,O0O more for the
Pacific northwestern wheat crop in
1924 than was received for the 1898
crop, on the basis Of the same bushel-
age in 1924, according to Walter J.
Robinson. general manager Of the
Washington Wheat Growers associa-
ton.
Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engi-
neer, has advised ranchers and irriga-
ton districts on the east side of the
Cascades to conserve moisture, saying
that a scanty supply OF stream and
creek runoff, with early disappear
ance Of snow in the mountains. point
to a short supply for irrigation pur-
poses.
Reorganization Of Grays Harbor
county berry growers took place in
Elma last week. r. W. Wallace,
Montesano, was chosen president;
Emil Pauly, wishkah Valley. vice
president; and G. +. Young. Elma,
secretary. 1t is planned to get all
of the berry growers into one organ
ization.
By an agreement reached between
officers OF the Automobile club Of
Washington and Oregon traffic Of
ficers, Washington violators Of the
Oregon traffic laws who are members
in good standing of the Automobile
club Of Washington will be permitted
to deposit their membership cards in
lieu Of bail.
The Quadrennial convention of the
North Pacific union conference Of
Seventh Day Adventists was held in
the Adventist church at College Place
near Walla Walla with many promin-
emit leaders in attendance. The con-
ference comprises the states Of Ore
gon. Washington, Idaho, Montana and
the territory Of Alaska.
Spokane leads the 18th federal re-
Serve district in Wholesale business in
: agricultural implements in January
1924, over the same month year ago
Spokane's Wholesale dealers in agri-
cultural implements did 3S.4 per cent
more business last January than in
1923. The district as whole showed
loss of ia per cent.
Curb gasoline dealers of Walla
Walla have organized and announced
that they will retain an attorney and
fight attempts of the driven" serv-
Ice stations to put them out of BUSH
ness. The driven" stations, through
an attorney, appealed to the city COM
mission for an ordinance that would
prohibit the others from operating.
Petitions for the improvement of
the road from La Center on the Pacific
highway in Clarke county to Amboy,
by way of View and Farghar lake,
under the Donahue road act, and from
Heisson to Amboy from the perman-
ent highway fund, the property own
ers to pay 20 per cent of the cost,
have been signed by IS per cent of
the property owners.
A federal grand jury was called at
Spokane by United States District
Judge ]. Stanley Webster to make an
investigation Of charges and counter
charges Of alleged fraud and perjury
growing out Of the suit on trial in
United States district court for the
foreclosure Of million-dollar bond
issue of the washington-Idaho Water,
Light & Power company.
Placing the bag limit at one male
deer during the season; the limit for
Chinese pheasants at two daily; ma
tive grouse and pheasants at three
daily; Hungarian pheasants at five
daily, and reducing the daily catch
of game fish from so a person to rs
are some Of the changes in the game
code made at meeting Of western
Washington game wardens at Tacoma.
Irrigation and drainage canal con-
struction in the Yakima reservation
by the Indian reclamation service has
given the Lower Status district half
q dozen miles Of good graveled roads,
according to Yakima county commits.
sioners. Material handled in exeavat-
ing the canals hts been piled along
the right-of-way and leveled to form
an excellent roadway. The county win
construct sections Of roads to connect
nm thaaa stretches.