Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-11
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

Is preuIctca by coal operators, contin
gent upon refusal Of union miners t
accept the proposed wage reduction
of % per cent announced by thu
operators association, effective Marcel
Is. About 1000 miners will be af
fected by n shutdown Of the mines
which, operators said, would follow
their refusal to accept the new wage
scale.
Seattle's municipality owned street
railway system, which has beer
thrown into the state and United
States courts by injunction proceed
ings, attacking the contract under
which 1t was purchased, made a prof
1t of Sal, 6OO.13 last month, more
than enough to meet the January pay
ment for bond redemption and in
terest, according to report made
public by Harry W.SCarroll, city con
troller.
With a total of 635,4O0 pounds OF
halibut and mixed cod, 40 vessels OF
Seattle's independent fishing fleet ar.
rived In port during February and
sold their catches on the Seattle hall
but exchange. The catches were com
posed Of 44S,4O0 pounds of No. hall
but, $4,000 pounds of No. 2 halibut
and 10000 pounds of mixed cod. Vir.
tually all the vessels operated on the
fishing banks off the west coast of
Vancouver island and the west coast
of Queen Charlotte island.
Henry Drum will retire as warden
of the state penitentiary to become
superintendent of the state game farm
at Walla Walla and will be succeeded
as warden by g. G. Potts, member OF
the board of control The change will
be made April 1. Thomas E. Skaggs
of the board Of control becomes d.
rector of business control under the
civil administrative code. John w.
Pace, member of the state safety
board, will be assistant director; Gar.
ret Fisher of Tacoma, president of
the Tacoma chamber of commerce,
will be supervisor Of purchasing; Ma
jor Luis w. Lang, former chief of
police of Seattle, and veteran of the
Spanish American and world wars,
will be supervisor of buildings and
grounds. James Cameron of Tacoma,
third member of the board of control,
will become assistant director of eff.
cheney under l.. D. McArdle, named
by Governor Hart to be director of
that department.
Spokane was chosen as the terminal
point OF the Northwest Wheat Grow.
ers' association, an interstate selling
agency to control the sales of the
growers associations in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana, at a
meeting in Spokane Of representatives
Of the four bodies. The officers named
to govern sales of the new associa,
ton are as follows: General manager,
George C. Jewett, Spokane; sales man
ager, c. w. Nelson, Seattle. The fol.
lowing were named directors: r. V.
Perringer, Pomeroy, Wash; H. J.
Herman, Genesee, Idaho; C. M. Straw.
man, Lewiston, Idaho; Thomas j.
Levi, Great Falls, Mont; A. R. Shum,
way, Milton, Or, and ]. W. White,
Twin Falls, Idaho. The new asso'
citation will be financed by assess.
ments levied on the state organiza
lions, according to their bushelage
and under the working plans the
state organizations will continue indie,
pendently as at present, relinquishing
only the selling control.
The joint convention at Spokane OF
the Northwest Master Builders asso
citation and the Associated General
Contractors Of the Pacific Northwest
came to a close following action dis
solving the former body, withdrawal
from 1t of Spokane and Portland
builders and action changing the
name of the latter organization. In
place of the Master Builders associa
ton, the Washington State Contrac
tors association, to include builders
of Washington outside of Spokane
was decided upon following notice by
builders OF Spokane and Portland
that they intended to join ranks Will
the General Contractors. At elections
r. w. Jacobson of Seattle was named
president Of the new Washington
Contractors association, The Genera
Contractors, following an election II
which Matt NJ, Dougall of Portland
was chosen president, changed tn,
name OF their organization to tn,
Associated General Contractors o