Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-04-18
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

sportsmen Of Kittitas county have
organized the Cascade Field Trials
club.
John L. Canada. age 81, died at the
home Of his son, william Canada, at
Almira.
Husum is planning the erection OF
= community club house and the e.
tablishment Of an auto park.
The Rotary clubs show at Yakima
last week for the benefit Of crippled
children netted more than $4,000.
w. R. Baker, for IA years deputy
sheriff of Whitman county, has tend
cred his resignation, effective May l.
Chief Of Police ]. e. Kuntz Of olym-
pia has resigned, effective May 1. His
successor has not yet been determin-
ed.
The Longview city council has
authorized the purchase Of two auto
mobiles for the use of the police de-
partment.
The annual conventions Of auditors
and treasurers of the state of Wash
ington will be held in Longview, June
20, q and %.
Deposits in the four Wenatchee
banks on March 81 were s4,721,11O, or
nearly 100000 more than at the call
Of April 3, 1923.
The total amount of fines collected
by the city of Olympia for the month
Of March was 1885, of which liquor
cases bought 1881.
w. v. Hooper, who is running a
large band of sheep near Winona,
says that = check Of lambs indicates q
1856 per cent increase.
The first forest fire Of the 1924
season and the earliest ever occur
ring in the Wenatchee national forest
has been sxtinguished.
Wheat over the walla Walla valley
is in good condition, according to A.
W. Hasten, county agent. In some
places fall sOwn grain is twenty
inches high.
Charles Poison, 90 years old, and
Mrs. Edna Weber. 70. were found
dead in Seattle, both having been
asphyxiatsd by escaping gas from
opened jets.
Committees from Colfax and Pom
eroy met at the Central Ferry bridge
to perfect q permanent organization
to arrange q celebration for opening
Of the bridge.
Fifty citizens of Pullman recently
went to farms nearby and assisted
farmers in poisoning squirrels. More
than 5000 pounds of calcium cyanide
were distributed.
Kelso will vote May 20 on issuing
S25O.OOO in water fund bonds to re-
tire outstanding bonds and warrants
and finance repairs and extensions
OF the water system.
A strange malady that recently took
the lives Of three Yakima children
probably was not diphtheria, but in
fantile paralysis, DR.. H. H. Smith,
city health officer said.
, SnoQualmie pass win be opened for
this seasons traffic May 1, according
10 an announcement by the state high
way department. The pass was open
ed last year on May IL.
Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Taylor. 81, q
member Of the Mckinley circle. Ladies
Of the G. A. R., and known through
out the Pacific northwest as "Old
Glory" died at Puyallup.
Enrolment in the Chehalis public
schools is 1853 greater than for the
same period last year. There is also
an increase of 200 pupils at the Catho-
Tic school opened last fall.
Eighty-seven cows owned by mem
bers Of the Lewis County Cow Test
ing association we're slaughtered dur
ing the year 1923, because they were
found Improbable after tests.
Milling operations and business gem
orally in the coal fields Of Washing
ton were suspended last Tuesday
while the miners celebrated the S1st
anniversary Of the eight-hour day.
An ordinance calling for a special
election on May 20 to determine
whether the city shall issue bonds for
$1O,6OO to pay 40 per cent of the cost
of paving Morgan street was passed
by the Davenport council.
Seattle's publicly owned and operat
ed street car system, which had a de
ficit of 100000 last June, after trying
a scent fare for three months, will
begin to pay its bills with cash May
10, W. D. Henderson, manager, has
announced.
Stanley Lister, A, assistant man
ager Of the Crown Lumber company
at Mukilteo was fatally wounded, and
Claude feathers, a mill and logging
worker, died at an Everett hospita
from self-inflicted wounds severa
hours after a shooting ARRAY on the