Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-25
Principal Events Of the Week
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At the close of business June 30, the
two banks of Pullman had resources
of S1,66S, 76O and deposits of $1,4Os.-
SCI.
Two typhoid fever cases at Walla
Walla have been traced to a spring
near the power plant on the Walla
Walla river.
The 18th annual convention of the
Pacific Coast Association of Port
Authorities is to be held in Seattle
September 8 and 4.
The ninth annual Skagit county
excursion to the western Washington
experiment station at Mount Vernon
will be held this week.
Fire last week in the Y. w. c. A.
building at Yakima drove IL young
women, lightly clad, into the street
and caused loss of $4,000.
= Lewiston, Idaho, was chosen as the
1924 meeting place at the final bust
ness session of the Washington State
Morticians association at Everett.
Forty-eight owners have entered
146 horses from Everett, Vancouver,
B. c., Carnation, Camp Lewis and Fort
Lawton for the horse show at Seattle.
Ezra Meeker "a, Of Seattle, an
nounced that he would stump the state
for Coolidge this summer and fall,
working Independently of the state
committee.
Contrary to the general belief,
southeastern Spokane county will
have fine wheat crop. 1t is report
ed that some 80 bushels to the acre
wheat may be threshed.
Rebuilding the sawmill and box
plant Of the Yellow Pine Box and
Lumber company near Winesap. re-
Gently destroyed by fire with a loss
of $4,000, is under way.
Charged with the murder of his
wife, Pearl Conner, "a, who dropped
from sight under mysterious circum.
stances two months ago, Richard Con.
ner, 81, was arrested at Tacoma.
In the second bad grain fire of
the season standing grain on more
than 600 acres was destroyed in, the
Fields gulch region, IL miles north
of Prescott, in walla Walla county.
C. w. Sorrells and his son, John,
were drowned in the Okanogan river
two miles below Malott when the
team they were using to move logs
fell into the river. pulling the men in.
Louis L. Kennedy, so, sustained
crushed pelvis, causing his death soon
passed over his body on the Robert
G. Kennedy ranch near Walla Wa1la.
Preliminary steps toward forma-
tion of a tri-city manufacturers asso-
citation, with manufacturers of Kelso,
Longview and Rainier as members
were taken at meeting in Longview.
Rains in several sections of eastern
Washington and northern Idaho with
other favorable weather conditions
enabled firefighters to bring under
control many blazes in those sections.
Younger & Israel of Dayton have
purchased the Turner warehouses at
MILESTONE, Delany and Turner from
B. M. Turner, who will operate the
Pacific Coast elevator warehouse sys.
TEN.
Unanimous endorsement of initia.
tive measure No. So, the Bone power
bill, was voted in the closing session
of the annual convention of the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor at
Olympia.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the entire cut of Lantzy's sawmill,
six miles from Lincoln, across the
Spokane river. The lumber burned
totaled nearly 100000 feet and was
of the best grade.
AlOoO OlOF6I, 1f-ySdE-Olu uduBnJ6F
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Slower Bunker
Hill precinct, is miles west of Ephra.
ia, is dead as the result of a fall
down a 6O-foot cliff near her home
in Grant county.
National forests in western Wash.
ington are declared by State Forest
Fire association officials to be COM
pletely free of fire. Cool weather
and frequent showers are preventing
the spread of fire.
q. d. Miner, age 20, pioneer of the
northwest, shot himself in the head
with a .S2-caliber revolver on the
Inland Empire highway, five miles
west Of Colville, and died while being
taken to a hospital.
About Is county clerks from the
various counties Of the state, the
greater number accompanied by theil
wives, attended the convention al
Mount Vernon of the Washington
state county clerks association
Martin zoncha, engineer, and Henry