Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-09-02
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

Rains have stopped harvesting oper-
atoms in the vicinity of Kelso and
farmers are becoming fearful that they
may sustain heavy losses again this
year unless the next month is dry.
The lowand farmers are just getting
harvesting operations well started.
Competition of motor buses and
privately owned automobiles may re.
suit in cuts in railway passenger serv-
ice In Washington, according to a
statement made at Seattle by A. D.
Charlton, general passenger agent OF
the Northern Pacific Railway company
at Portland. Automobiles, he said,
have carried an unprecedented amount
of traffic this summer which otherwise
would have been cared for by the rail.
roads.
Plans and specifications for the
George Creek tunnel of the Skagit
power project, to be about 81 feet in
diameter and two miles long, cut
through a mountain of granite, were
approved by the Seattle board of pub
lie works The tunnel will cost ST.
100000.
Colonel Charles R. Forbes, director
of the veterans bureau left Septem-
Der / for the Pacific coast and will
spend two days each in Spokane, Sc
attic and Portland, inspecting local
offices of the bureau and gathering
views Of the veterans on questions Of
soldier relief administration.
Ruling of the Seattle board of public
works requiring contractors to employ
on city projects only citizens present
ing registration certificates was re-
sCndcd at a meeting of the board fol-
lowing an opinion from Corporation
Counsel Meier that such a require
ment was without legal basis.
Tacoma was selected for the next an
nual convention of Washington chapter
of the American College of Surgeons,
in session at Spokane DR.. ]. B. Nc
Northney of Tacoma was elected chair
man Of the executive committee; DR..
II, It. Whitaker of Tacoma, secretary,
and Dr.. John Hunt Seattle, councillor
Precipitation of a carload of logs,
caused by the breaking of stakes on
Northern Pacific freight train, just as
1t crossed the pavement in East Wish
injury of R. J. Charles of Vader, and
damaged his car, while machine
driven by Ed Havens was almost total
ly demolished.
Enough poison was administered to
Mrs. Kate NJ. Mahoney, ito kill Is
persons" Coroner Corson of Seattle
announced, following analysis of the
stomach Of the body found in a trunk
in Lake Union recently and identi-
fled as that of the woman whose hus-
band, James E. Mahoney, is held on
charge of murder.
After September l motor trucks car
rying loads heavier than the statutory
maximum of $4,000 pounds will be
stopped wherever found on highways
and compelled to unload the excess, It
has been announced by Louis NJ. Lang,
commander Of the state highway pa
irOl. Those discovered violating the
Jaw also will be prosecuted, he said
Cranberries in the district around
the mouth of the Columbia river are
ripening little earlier than usual,
and picking will be in full blast by
September 4. The prevailing rate paid
will be 20 cents peck measure for hand
picking and so cents an hour for scoop.
ing. The crop is going to be a large
one, and many pckers will be need.
ed
Seattle's water-borpe commerce for
July, composed of foreign and domes-
tic imports and exports, showed an
increase of nearly $5OOO,OOO compared
with June, and total imports, from
foreign and domestic, during July this
year showed an increase of nearly ST.
100000 compared with the same month
in 1920, according to the monthly re-
port of Port Warden Lathe.
With no reflection on the ability of
Major William Elder as a physician,
L. c. Joseph, supervisor of the 18th
district, bureau of war risk insurance,
has asked the surgeon.general of the
United States to transfer Major Elder,
against whom complaint was made by
Major j. R. Dan in behalf of ex.serv-
ice men who are patients in the nerve
ward" at the Cushman hospital at Sc
attic.