Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-02-25

orators, "a day, with board and
ROOM cooks, $50 O month.
February "a has been set US the
date OF hearing In the Thurston coun-
ty superior court Of an appeal from
a recent order Of the public service
commission for u physical connection
between the lines Of the Milwaukee
system, entering Centralia on the
west. and the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern and O.-W. II. X. & N, COM
Ing In on the east. The last three
named systems appealed from the
order
Opening Of new market In the
eastern states for lumber from the
Pacific northwest was predicted by
W. M. Patteson. treasurer OF the New
York State Lumber Dealers associa-
ton, In newspaper interview at
Spokane. Forty.seven members of
the association, with As women rela-
tives, touring the northwest aboard
= special train, were guests Of east
ern Washington lumbermen on q visit
to lumber mills.
Solution of the long. standing contro-
versy over the cognomen Of the high
est mountain peak In the Cascade
range, which masquerades variously
as Mount Rainier and Mount Tacoma,
would be settled. 1t is believed, by =
suggestion offered to the executive
committee OF the United States geo.
graphic board by representatives Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic. The
geographic board was asked to change
the name to Mount Lincoln.
Senator Jones Of Washington In
tends to insist upon an amendment
to the emergency tariff bill which
will give some protection to apples.
The Dominion OF Canada now has g
tariff of 30 cents barrel, or more
than 30 cents a bushel. on apples
that are exported from the Pacific
coast states. The senator thinks that
the apple growers of Washington.
Oregon and Idaho should have the
same protection against the Canadian
apple.
The entire Pacific northwest was
represented at Walla Walla Saturday
at the meeting Of the Umatilla Rapids
Power Site association. Business men
and city officials from points between
Spokane, Tacoma. Seattle, Portland
and central Oregon were present. In
addition. all railroads serving the
northwest had representatives there.
Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engi
neer, Mayor Baker of Portland, Mayor
Fleming Of Spokane, and other Of
ficials spoke.
Governor Hart has telegraphed
United States Senator Jones Of Wash
ington, declaring It to be the wish Of
OillCidls VI tHe btalc luat wv pio
posed treaty between the United
States and Great Britain relative to
salmon fisheries In Puget sound be
not ratified. Measures enacted at the
present sssion of the state legislature
permit the complete and satisfactory
handling Of this subject in conjunction
with the provincial authorities Of
British Columbia, without the neces-
sity of completing the treaty negoti-
atoms, the governor said.
Eight billion board feet of timber
was destroyed by the cyclone that rip
ped a 75-mile path, 80 miles wide,
through the forests of the Olympic
peninsula. Washington state, January
30. Reports from the forest service
class the storm as "the greatest dis
aster ever recorded in the annals OF
forestry and numbering" Virtually all
standing timber over 1850 square miles
went down in tangled mass, obliter.
ating roads and telegraph lines and
with little chance of salvage. Most
of 1t was western hemlock and spruce,
Acting Forester Sherman reported, and
subject to rapid decay. No human
lives we're lost in the forest, but
buildings were destroyed and many
animals, including elk, persisted. Mum
bers Of animals were pennod in by the
tansie OF debris to die Of hunger. The
best winter feeding ground for elk
of the region was swept, AS special
precaution against fire, the navy de-
partmont has been asked to make an
air survey Of the storm area, since 1t
Is impossible afoot. Reequipment OF
the war time spruce railroad, the only
line of rails into the section, has been
asked OF the war department In order
to salvage as much timber as possible.