Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-15
Principal Events Of the Week
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ton Of the Walla Walla Vegetable ex
change are pleasing.
To discuss problems that confront
fruit growers, an all-day community
meeting was held at Kettle Falls.
A saving Of one.third will be made
by Clarke county under q new con-
tract for feeding county prisoners.
Thomas e. P. Keegan, IS, chief of
police of Juneau. Alaska, died sud
denly Of heart disease at q Seattle
hotel.
Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, councilman
and the first woman candidate to file
for mayor ia Seattle, has withdrawn
from the race.
More than sixty potato growers of
Whatcom county have decided to form
a cooperative organization to market
and sell their products.
A petition for Incorporation of Win
throp has been circulated and a hear
ing before Okanogan county commits
sioners viii be held Friday.
The First National bank of Clark
ston, with some 1900 depositors and
deposits reported as $4,000, was clos
ed by order of the directors.
Edwin L. Johnson, 80, of Spokane,
has completed a 26-day fast and de-
claFed that rheumatic trouble of long
standing apparently has been cured.
The annual meeting Of the Lewis
County Contrasting association was
held in Chehalis. At present 38 dairy
men are members, representing 700
cows.
Miss Kate Harter, 2e, is dead and
Lawrence Stackman, about 30, was
fatally wounded and died as the re-
suit Of q mysterious shooting affair
at Pullman.
A slide that brought down about
500 tons OF rock and dirt carried out
part of a wooden bridge on the c., M.
& st. P. railroad between Box canyon
and MetaIine Falls.
The Panhandle Lumber company Of
lone made a record last month in
shipping out cars. It shipped 12S cars
of finished lumber and lath and q
number Of cars Of ties!
The 18th anniversary Of the battle
of Santa Anna, fought on February 4,
1899, was celebrated by members of
company @, First Washington volun-
teers, with a banquet at Vancouver.
At public auction in the courthouse
at Cathlamet, the state of Washington
sold 3706.0S acres of timber land in
the Cathlamet district. The total re-
ceived for the property was $21O.24s.
Angelo Pierucciani is dead, riddled
with bullets and knife wounds, and
Orccucci Grovanni is in the county
Jail at South Bend as the result of a
shooting and knitting affray in Ray
mond.
A Great Northern passenger train
was wrecked one mile north of Repub-
lie when a huge boulder rolled onto
the track. The train was running at
low speed and serious accident was
Averted.
Marvin Chase, supervisor Of by
draulics. has granted a permit to the
city of Centralia to divert twenty cubic
feet of water a second from the Skoo-
kumchuck river to a municipal water
supply system.
Searching for John Doyle, a ranch
er in the Boston harbor district about
IL miles from Olympia, Sheriff Jack
son and Deputy Sheriff Hardwick dis
covered the dead body at the bottom
Of an abandoned well.
The run of smelt in the Cowlitz
river has been unusually light to date,
but fishermen are anticipating the
main run Of fish at any time. Ship
ments to date have not been nearly
as large as in former years.
Complaint challenging the facilities
and service of the Western Union
Telegram company at South Bend, Pa.
cific county, has been entered by the
state department of public works and
an investigation and hearing win be
held.
Anacortes Carpenters union, which
includes the carpenters of Sedro-Wool.
ley and Mount Vernon, have volunteer.
ed to supply all labor required in erec-
ton of the summer camp home Of the
Camp Fire Girls Of Skagit county on
6amish island.
DR.. Howard Clemmer OF Spokane
was reelected president Of the motion
picture theater owners Of Washington
and L. A. DrinkWine Of Tacoma vice
president and ]. M. Holmes Of Seattle
secretary-treasurar at q meeting OF
the organization in Seattle.
Ten trainlOads Of apples from the
Yakima and WeRatchee districts were
loaded into the steamship Albion Star
Il Seattle. These appleB came from