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Show WILL PLACE BLAME. Governor of Washington Will Investigate Investi-gate Coal Shortage. Seattle. Owing to tho contlnuod scarcity of coal throughout this state. Governor Albert E. Mead has appointed appoint-ed a committeo of special officers to investigate tho shortage, placo tho blamo and lnvoko tho stato laws, if nocossary, to bring relief. Tho personnel per-sonnel of tho committeo is as follows: II, a. Falrchlld, chairman of tho railway rail-way commission; J. S. Lawrence and J. S. McMillan, members of tno railway rail-way commission; John D. Atkinson, attorney general; David Dotting, mining min-ing Inspector; C. F. Hubbard, labor commissioner; John ArraBmlth, grain inspector; Ortes Hamilton, adjutant gcnornl of Washington nntlonal guard: Herbert Huntley, horticultural commissioner, and F. A. Clark, oil inspector. |