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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Our Readers. City hall employes of Tacoma have filed a protest with the council against the too frequent invasion of their work- respective offices by "campaign "tag ers," directors of "drives" and day" tormentors. An unsolicited request -for a 10 per wage reduction that will save has the school cent funds $40,000 annually, been presented to the Seattle school fireboard by engineers, custodians, men and janitors. John Galvin, receiver of the Union Loan & Trust company of Centralia, to has filed his final report and asked be discharged. A final dividend of mak 3 1/2 per cent is to be paid creditors, ing a total of 85 per cent. Members of the state highway board went to Hoquiam Tuesday and to Lake the Quinault to inspect the work on to extension project from the lake Queets. The program of the board includes making a passable road at the earliest possible date. City Councilman Draham and Mrs. a of Olympia, stroll through on foot. 500-mile Draham, have Oregon left for They will start from Vancouver walk ing up the Columbia highway, from which they will branch off, and for the next month will tour through Oregon where they fancy chooses. Conviction and sentence of seven I. W. W. members, tried in Montesano about a year ago for the murder of four ex-service men by firing upon the Armistice parade in Centralia in 1919 was sustained in the supreme court in an opinion written by Justice Mitchell, and affirmed by the entire bench. President E. H. Todd of the College of Puget Sound announced that the drive to raise $1,000,000 for the institution had succeeded. When the campaign closed, the fund was $22,723 over the million-dollar mark. The College of Puget Sound is supported by the Methodist church of the northwest. The money will be used for construction of new buildings. Water and rail lumber shipments from Grays Harbor in March totaled approximately 44,681,000 feet, accordOf ing to compilations just completed. this total 19,659,000 feet went by rail and was carried in approximately 771 cars, of which Hoquiam furnished 369 cars and Aberdeen 402. Water shipments from the harbor in March were 25,022,000 feet, carried in 28 ships. With five military decorations, in cluding the British distinguished fly ing cross and bar, given for downing nine enemy aircraft during the world John S. Griffith, son of Mr. and A. Griffith of re war, Mrs. C. Seattle, of has turned home after four years servWhen he from air forces two ago ice the overseas. British resigned months he was Captain Griffith, aged 22 years. Fifty thousand dollars was the value a jury in the superior court at Walla Walla placed on the affections of Mrs. Mary Hughes when it awarded a verdict of this amount to Philip Hughes his brother, recently a against Mrs. Hughes Patrick obtained Hughes di vorce. The parties are wealthy wheat owning and several acres. The ranchers, thousand leasing plantiff asked $200,000. The state law providing for the ex amination of dentists by the state li board of dental examiners before censes are granted was held inoperative in a decision by Edward E. Cush man, United States district judge at Seattle, in which he declared the board was clothed with arbitrary and illegal power. The decision granted the peti tion of Leon Noble, Seattle dentist, for a temporary injunction restraining county officials from prosecuting him on a charge of practicing dentistry without a license. I The Washington grand lodge of the e Degree of Honor, in session at Seattle has elected the following officers: Past grand president, Mrs. Anna M. Crosby , Spokane; grand president, Mrs. Eva P. Gordon, Olympia; first grand vice president, Mrs. Edith Downing, Hill second grand vice-president f M. Barth, t yard; Mfs. Anna Seattle; Kenoyer, grand Che Mrs. Cora I, treasurer; Mrs. , Seattle; grand secretary, halis; Chadwick, grand usher, Emma Mrs P. d Sadie Fulkerson, Hoquiam; grand in n Mrs. Idaho L. e grand enworth; side watch, outside Davis, watch, Leav Mrs . Pearl Roderick, Tacoma. d In serving complaint on its own mo g e tion against all the railways doing in this state the department g d works has to a joint rates and con business tablish of public undertaken physical between the various all in eastern nection at points Washington railroads through where two roads cross or pass e the same towns in the grain-loading