Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-11
Washington State News

| many farmers near Oakesdale have
purchased combine harvesters and will
pool their horses and workers, thus
reducing the shocking and threshing
bill to a considerable degree and low
ering the need for outside help.
Seattle's municipal street railway
operating under s1s-cent fare had
revenue receipts Of s512.O27.s5 during
May, or sufficient for all expenses and
fixed charges, according to a monthly
report by Superintendent D. W. Hen
derson. The railway lacked, however,
approximately $4,000 Of an amount
due to be set aside as monthly appro-
priation to a bond redemption fund.
An airplane made it's debut in direct
legislation when the Rev John F.
Lanigan, pastor of st. Margaret's
Catholic church, Seattle. arrived in
olympiain the aiFship with more than
500 Withdrawals OF signatures from
initiative measure No. 49, the compul-
sorry school bill. "
with 62,533 valid signatures claim
ed by the filters Of the measure, the
Bone power bill, officially known as
initiative measure No. 81. was formal
ly filed with Secretary of State ].
Grant Hinkle at Olympia. The requir-
ed number of valid signatures is &c..
s41, being 10 per cent of the last vote
for governor.
Fumigation stations maintained at
Columbia river points for the disin-
fecting of tourists automobiles and
equipment in accordance with the foot
and mouth disease quarantine may be
closed on or about July 10, 1t is an
nounced by Frank H. Gloyd, newly
appointed director Of the department
of agriculture.
Separate trials for Roland H.
Pothier and Robert Rosenbluth, charg-
:, ed with the murder of Major Alex
lander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis in
491S, were granted by Judge z. e.
Cushman in federal court at Tacoma.
The trial of Pothier will start Sep
TENDER 30 and that of Rosenbluth inn
mediately thereafter.
Allotments for rivers and harbor
improvements under the act of con-
gress, approved June 7, announced by
the war department for this fiscal
year, included in Washington: Skamo-
kawa creek. $500; Grays harbor and
bar entrance, $4,000; Grays harbor
between Aberdeen and Chehalis river,
1000; Seattle harbor,. $4,000.
Thomas DsPage, Seattle lawyer, and
brother of Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife
of the United States ambassador to
Peru. was arrested at Seattle charged
with possession and transportation of
intoxicating liquors in violation of the
Volstead act. The complaint was
sworn out by F. A. Hazeltine, divi-
sional director of the prohibition
forces.
Tom Copeland. owner of a farm in
the foothills region near Walla Walla,
completed harvesting on 20-acre field
of wheat near his house and was
surprised to find that instead OF a
yield of IS bushels to the care, as he
had estimated, he had more than 80
bushels. Similar reports of yields ex-
ceeding expectations were coming
from other farmers in the Walla Walla
valley. ~
-,The school bill, initiative No. 40, wasN
filed with Secretary of State Hinkle
at Olympia by Ben H. Britton of Ia
coma, one of the proponents of the
measure and a trustee of the Wash
ington Good Government league, which
has been obtaining signatures for the
petitions. A total Of 55,63S valid
signatures have been obtained, &C
cording to John A. Jeffry of Seattle,
chairman of the executive committee
of the league.
! Initiative measure No. so, common-s
ly known as the "40-mill tax levy
limit" bill was filed by John F. Adams,
0CaNlAOb BlOROnCht "a SAC AACaoOAC
with ]. Grant Hinkle, secretary of
state, at Olympia. In statement &C
companying the petitions, Mr.. Adams
declared more than $4,000 valid sigma
lures were secured for the bill. The
4O-mill tax measure would limit the
tax levy on real estate to 40 mills for
all state, county, city and district pur-
poses.
With SO fatalities in the extra haz-
ardous employments for June, the
month maintained about the usual
average, while the non-fatal acct
dents were SO13, making a total of
9046, according to report of Director
Durham. OF the fatal accidents 20
were in logging camps and numbering
lkplants. The increase Of total acct
dents for June was but 11s per cent
over June last year. when they num-
bered 3O13. Total accidents for the
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