Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-08-05
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences OF Past Week Briefly
Compiled For Our Readers

the Carlyon bill for paving state roads.
A potato starch factory Is to be built
at Wapato by the Sunset Fruit Pro.
duce company. Officers of the organi-
cation said that the plant contemplated
would cost $4,000 and would be erect
ed In time for operations on the 1921
spud crop. 1t will be of sufficient
capacity to utilize all the Gull and
frozen potatoes in the Yakima valley.
o. S. Thornton, Auburn, engineer,
and Alex Rennie, Everett, fireman,
were instantly killed in the wreck of
Il Northern Pacific lumber train which
crashed into a string Of loaded coal
cars at Fremont, suburb of Seattle.
Both trains were practically demolish-
ed and rolled down an embankment,
burying the trainmen under the de-
bris.
Angus Mckay, pioneer OF 1866, holds
all records for continuous office hold
ing In the county OF Walla Walla, the
state of Washington and the United
States, according to local belief He
has been justice of the peace of Rus.
sell Creek precinct rs terms $50 years.
and on Thursday walked into the aud
itor's office and paid his dollar to file
for the twentysiXth time.
| The election division OF the office
of the secretary of state has started
mailing pamphlets containing refer
ondum measures and proposed consti
tutional amendments to voters. TWEEN
| ty-two clerks have been working on
the preliminary measures and 1t is
estimated that 1t will require at least
month to mail copies of the pam
phlets to the 100000 listed voters.
On instructions from directors of the
Standard Oil company in San Fran
cisco, John L. Mclean, district sales
manager of the company in Seattle,
delivered 10000 barrels of fuel oil
and 10000 gallons of gasoline to the
navy department at Bremerton. De-
mands for the sdpply were made
through the United States district at
torney in the form of an ultimatum.
Jitneys operating on 7-cent fare
basis will haul passengers on the
streets of Tacoma In competition with
the Tacoma Railway & Power COM
pany, which succeeded in getting q
10cent fare from the public service
commission. City commissioners said
that arrangements for jitney surety
bonds and other details would be made
shortly and that the cars soon would
be in operation to all sections of the
city.
The Robinson-Rand control project
on the Lewis river will be- completed
in from four to six weeks. Work on
this project, which is designed to pre-
vent further cutting by the Lewis
river and to protect the Lewis river
road and the Pacific highway, has been
under way all spring and summer. 1t
is being done with permanent highway
funds under the supervision Of County
Engineer Fred C. Cramer. The work
will cost approximately $4,000.
A joint conference of the Oregon.
Washington and Idaho public service
commissions will be held at Seattle
on August 10 to consider the protest
filed by the North Pacific Miller's as.
ISOLATION against the so.called emer.
gency grain minimum freight rates
established by the railroads during
the time they were under federal con.
troll The railroads recently petitioned
the public service commissions to con.
tinue these rates in effect, with the
result that protest was filed by the
millers' association, which is com
products manufacturers OF the north
west.
Plans for the pooling OF all lumber
interests In western Washington and
western Oregon with view to enlarg.
Ing the national market for northwest.
ern products came to head after
weeks of consideration when represen-
tative timber owners, logging opera.
tors, millmen and wholesalers decided
on the formation Of the West Coast
Forest Products bureau, The organi.
cation has not yet been completed, and
probably will not be for 30 days or
30, according to the promoters Of the
plan, but they have agreed on ten.
tative working basis and expect soon
to be able to announce a national pro.