Washington Solons Move on Budgets and Bills
Olympia reports the Washington legislature has passed four appropriation bills eleven others in committee stage, with measures aiding lawmakers including 150000 for expenses 5000 for printing and 150000 for jute purchases for Walla Walla convicts and 16000 for state fish hatcheries. Other notable acts create a farm development bureau abolish the coroner and extend marriage ceremony privileges to licensed ministers. Nurses protest eight hour rule and senator Metcalf pushes scientific logging and a 220000 experiment fund. A rigid child labor bill modeled after Wisconsin and Minnesota is debated and a firearms sale restriction passes senate with purchasing permits. Legislative notes cover prize fighting potential establishment of a state fish and game department school for deaf and blind division, and a Vancouver bridge hearing plan.
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Bureau of Farm Development
Senate
House
Lister
Sacred Heart Hospital
Spokane
Frank Metcalf
Washington
Metcalf
Wisconsin
Minnesota
State Athletic Commission
Public Morals Committee
Senate Committee On Game
Fish and Game Department
Board of Commissioners
School For the Deaf and Blind
Vancouver
Portland
Cotter
State-wide potato contest expands to wheat corn oats peas
A year after the first potato contest in Whatcom County the program grows to a state wide event. It includes wheat corn oats and peas plus gardening contests for public school pupils. county to state level. rail rates offered for prize winners and participants. prizes include best sheaves and bushels across crops with red white and clab potato varieties. local bankers grange and experiment station provide support and funding. Lynden and the Nooksack valley showcase agricultural potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whatcom County
Puyallup
Olympia
Agricultural College
State Grange
Recommendations by State Auditor Clausen
State Auditor Clausen, in his biennial report, urges ref erence of all department reports to a single examining board and claims at least 25000 could be saved. He favors directing fines into the general fund and notes appropriations for criminal costs are insufficient, proposing legislative funding. He also lauds the state’s sound financial condition with the general fund free of indebtedness.
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Clausen
Joint committees back Celilo dam survey plan
The Dalles Oregon and Olympia Washington joint committees urge $50 000 from each state and the federal government for a detailed one year survey of the Columbia river power project at Celilo dam. The move follows Sunday inspection by state and federal representatives including Governor West and Governor Lister.
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Dalles
United States
Oregon
Washington
Columbia River
West
R. R. Butler
I. N. Day
Portland
A. H. Eaton
Eugene
C. A. Appelgren
J. T. Hinkle
Hermiston
John H. Lewis
L. F. Harza
G. L. Parker
United States Geological Survey
Ernest Lister
Leonard
Chehalis
McGuire
N. B. Brooks
Goldendale
Rowland
Tacoma
Stewart
Spokane
Roberts
F. F
Grinnell Women Vote For Suffrage In Special Election
In Grinnell Iowa 738 women voted with 663 in favor of suffrage and 75 opposed. On the question of voting if enfranchised 659 would vote and 40 would not. Estimated turnout 80 percent of women. Male governor vote last election was 945.
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Grinnell
Fola La Follette Immune Addresses Garment Workers
Lola La Follette daughter of Senator La Follette denounces police methods in a brief speech to striking garment workers in New York. She praises the workers discipline and urges continued picketing, while police refrain from arresting her. Several listeners are jailed as she mingles with the crowd.
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New York
Lola la Follette
Robert la Follette
Miss la Follette
Wisconsin
Home Rule Wins in Ulster Ulster Londonderry byeelection
Final returns show David C. Hogg Nationalist elected to parliament in Ulster Londonderry with 2699 votes to 2642 for Colonel H A Rockenham Unionist. Majority 57 in a 5341 total poll. The result gives Home Rulers a parliamentary majority from Ulster.
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Londonderry
Ireland
David C. Hogg
H. A. Rockenham
Ulster
House of Commons
Editor Is In Contempt In Kansas City Star Case
Colonel Nelson of the Kansas City Star was adjudged in contempt after Judge J A Guthrie found a newspaper article a sneer at the courts and legal procedure. An appeal to the court of appeals on a habeas corpus writ delayed jail, with Nelson sentenced to one day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Court of Appeals
William R. Nelson
Kansas City Star
Missouri
Kansas
Theodore Roosevelt
Nelson
J. A. Guthrie
Circuit Court
Contemptuous remark labeled open insult in report
A description in the article calls the action contemptuous and an open insult, signaling strong disapproval. The phrasing underscores the speaker's strained reaction and the provocative tone of the event described.
Ex President Castro Freed Temporarily Amid Venezuela Ties
Cipriano Castro former president of Venezuela is briefly free under habeas corpus issued by Judge Holt in the Federal Art Project case in Cowlitz District Centralia. John L. Harris returns to Kelso from the Midwest after negotiating bonds for a vast logging project in the upper Cowlitz Salmon Creek and Toutle districts. The plan calls for transferring 35 000 acres of timber land, building 100 miles of logging road, and operating mills along the right of way with capital exceeding 1 000 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Holt
Feder Ois
Cowlitz
Centralia
John L. Harris
Kelso
Middle West
Salmon Creek
Salmon
Toutle
Canvassing for Lynden Cannery Prompts Berry Grower Growth
Mr Thos H Smith and the Lynden Fruit Growers Association push for a new cannery this spring. They report strong berry plant growth and a grower 40 miles west earned 107 dollars from 47 square rods of berries after crates and boxes. Smith will resume canvassing as weather allows with Chap Bayes covering remaining territory.
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Thos. H. Smith
Lynden Fruit Growers’ Assation
Mr. Smith
Bruce Rogers to Speak on Power and Justice at Town Hall
Bruce Rogers will lecture at the Town Hall next Monday evening on The Right of Power the only Justice. He will discuss why people disagree on right and wrong, from prehuman ethics to modern power structures, including capitalistic control and labor issues. Rogers, who survived hardship in Texas, Spokane, and Aberdeen, cites Carlyle in introducing his talk.
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Bruce Rogers
Rogers
Texas
Clarence Darrow
Appeal To Reason
Spokane
Gray’s Harbor
Aberdeen
Bruce
Brown's Powder Bill Promotes State Powder Factory Plan
Senators Brown and Cotter push 8 S. B. 66 to establish a state powder factory near Puyallup with 1500000 dollars in funding and a powder revolving fund. The bill allows sales to state counties municipalities and residents at cost plus ten percent. It includes liens on land for purchase price and interest and aims to remove middlemen profits.
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State Senate
Brown and Cotter
Agricultural Experiment Station
Puyallup
United States
Washington
Sen
Brown
Charley's Aunt at Jamieson's Opera House Friday Night
Lynden notes highlight an upcoming local theater event Charley's Aunt at Jamieson's Opera House Friday night. Also listed are visiting teachers from Laurel Alder Grove and Blaine, a 9 to 19 basketball loss to Ferndale in a poorly lit hall, silk exhibits from Cheney Silk Co., and Lynden to host Sumas in a Saturday game with a full local lineup.
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Charley
Jamieson’s Opera House
Lynden
Button
Herington
Laurel
Angst
Alder Grove
Wallace
Blaine
Ferndale
Cheney Silk Co
Massachusetts
Sumas
John Wolf
August Jacobson
John Bay
Alvin Pyeatt
John Breckenridge
Commissioners Prove They Serve All People
The Bellingham American lauds the current board of commissioners for acting as servants of the whole people. It argues the court house shows the people in power, contrasting with the newspaper’s criticism of a political clique.
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Bellingham American
Board of Commissioners
It Can't Be Done Man Short-Circuits Skeptical Remark
A common refrain from doubters is met with swift action as someone proceeds to complete the task despite the challenge. This quip highlights how hesitation often gives way to decisive execution when faced with naysayers.
Northwest Exchange sweetens prune peach apricot market
Wenatchee valley growers favor a Portland based Northwest Fruit Exchange to market prune, peach, and apricot crops. A permanent soft fruit growers organization would form and end bitter competition between Wenatchee and Yakima districts pending local and commercial endorsements. Yakima cooperation is hoped to raise prices and unite apple growers in time.
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Wenatchee Valley
Northwest Fruit Exchange
Portland
Wenatchee
Yakima
Inmate Kills Fellow Patient at Steilacoom Asylum
Oscar Conrad Erickson, 30, an inmate at Steilacoom asylum, killed fellow patient James Pattison, 60, with a single blow as Pattison showed epileptic symptoms. The blow caved in Pattison’s ribs and is believed to pierced his heart. Pattison had been transferred from Chehalis last October and Erickson from Puyallup in July.
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Tacoma
Oscar Conrad Erickson
Steilacoom Asylum
James Pattison
Pattison
Chehalis
Erickson
Puyallup
Raymond Shipyard Opens With New Steamer Project
E. E. Case of Southwest Manufacturing announces Raymond shipyard will resume prominence in Raymond. The yard, idle since five years, built the Wil lapa Doris and Majestic, will construct a steamer like the Avalon of the Hart-Wood fleet, with work starting once the superintendent arrives from San Francisco.
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Raymond
E. EB. Case
Southwest Manufacturing Company
Willapa
Doris
Majestic
Avalon
Hart-Wood
San Francisco
6000 CARS OF APPLES TO GO
Wenatchee district predicts 1913 shipments of 7 109 cars of fruit with bearing trees recorded in Chelan Douglas Okanogan and Grant counties. Next fall expected 6082 cars apples 432 peaches 279 apples 137 apricots 47 cherries 42 plums. Average bearing apple tree yields 2.87 boxes matching 1912. Peach trees 26 percent removed lowering 1913 output, bearing 2.72 boxes per tree. Pears 2.38 boxes per tree apricots 2.69 crates cherries 2.23 boxes.
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Wenatchee
P. S. Darlington
Chelan
Douglas
Okanogan
Grant
Safe Blown and Cash Stolen at Everett Farm Store
The Farm Products Association reports a night burglary in Everett where the office safe was blown open and $170 in cash and checks disappeared. No burglars were found, but tracks indicate two men arrived by buggy. Police suspect the same two men linked to safeblank robberies across northwest towns.
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Everett
Farm Products Association
University of Washington Property Value Reported
The state board of accountancy inventory lists the university's real and personal property at 11 445 877 dollars. Real property is 10 859 194 dollars and equipment fixtures and furniture 586 683 dollars. Buildings on the present site are valued at 876 334 dollars.
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State Board of Accountancy
University of Washington
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Citizens Farm Organization
C. E. Flint
Nooksack Valley
Claussen
Celilo
Iowa
Castro
Lynden Fruit Growers
Ass’n
Milwaukee
Association
Carlyle
Board of County Commissioners
Washington State
Northwest Exchange
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