Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-02
Washington State News

lWeiN6 CdlAOfnid C0unlle8 now al
fected by the foot and mouth disease
was made by 2. I. French. director OF
the state department of agriculture.
Ernest seaborg. Washington state
supervisor of fisheries. has announc-
ed that the state fisheries board would
hold a public hearing in Seattle May
is to decide when. where and how
smelt, herring and all other food fish
Of Puget sound except salmon shall
be taken.
Forest fires have broken out and
are growing more dangerous hourly.
Fred A. Pape, supervisor of forestry,
has announced. Reports coming IN
from various localities in western
Washington indicate that forest fires
were growing in magnitude and Inn
portance.
The Clarke and Skamania County
Bankers association was organized at
Vancouver with Lloyd Dubois, presi-
dent of the Washington Exchange
Bank, Vancouver, president; o.. F.
Johnson, of Camas, vice-president; FL
lis Laird, of Washougal. secretary and
treasurer.
Declaring that the Pacific Coast is
constantly exposed to the menace of
the introduction of the foot and mouth
epizootic from the infected orient, Dr.
E. L. French of the state department
of agriculture has sent a telegram to
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace urg-
ing permanent protection of Pacific
ports.
Announcement was made at Monte
sano by Game Warden Winslow that
arrangements have been made with
the federal fish hatchery at Lake Quin-
ault for the rearing of steelhead salm-
on to be planted in the waters of Grays
Harbor county when they reach finger
length. The county will furnish the
feed and a man to care for the fish.
Representative Sam B. Hills bill to
pay Stevens and Ferry counties $115,-
900. held to be due them as taxes on
Indian lands on the Colville Indian
reservation. was unanimously reported
from the house committee on Indian
affairs. The house passed the bill at
the last session of congress, but the
senate failed to give favorable action
The Walla Walla district will har-
vest some fruit this year. but 1t will
only be a fraction of what the output
promised to be before the disastrous
frost of last week. NEpnaell r. Brown,
district hOrtieulturisG estimates that
the district will have not to exceed 100
cars Of apples and so cars Of prunes.
Apple damage ranges from 75 to 80 per
cent.
An insurance broker is liable IL he
fails to keep property insured when in
trusted to that effect, in case Of loss
Of the property, the supreme court
decided in the case Of Fred H. Bats
and wife versus the Northern Bond
& Mortgage company.
On May 16 and IL, 200 union carpen-
tiers, members of unions in Skagit
county. will erect the Camp Fire head
quarters building on Samish island
on the site presented to the Camp
Fire girls by the Skagit County Shrine
club year ago. The carpenters are
each donating two days work, and be-
lieve the building can be erected in
that time. The building will be thirty
BIZ nin4ty feet in size
Yakima wool is to be stored and not
sacrificed on the present market. This
decision was reached when owners OF
100000 pounds of the valleys best clip
met in Yakima at the office of J. f.
Sears, secretary of the Washington
Wool Growers association, with rep
resentatives of banks, and concluded
arrangements for storing the wool un-
til satisfactory price can be obtained.
Results of survey made by the GER
amics division of the engineering ex-
pertinent station of the University of
Washington to discover what raw ma.
terials exist in the Inland Empire for
the building up of the clay industry
have been furnished the industrial bu-
reau of the city of Spokane by DR..
Henry Suzzallo, president. The survey
shows that these clays open up a wide
range of manufacturing activities.
A dispute over the price of milk,
which threatened for a time to affect
the milk supply of Seattle, was annie
ably adjusted at a conference in Mayor
Edwin ]. Browns office between rep.
resentatives of Seattle MIX Shippers
association, an organization of dairy
farmers, and the Seattle Milk Distrib-
utors' association. Twelve of the larg-
est milk dealers In Seattle were affect
ed by the decision which provides for
the payment by the distributors to the
producers of $2.75 a hundredweight
for milk delivered last March, s2.65
for April and May deliveries and $3.50
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