Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-08-05

yolopmont and holding the leads and
have filed articles Of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
Because of a delay in the shipment
or gasoline for government purposes
from the east the alrplano patrol main
tanned by the department of conserya'
ton aad development for forest pro-
lection has been suspended,
A big crowd attended the annual pic.
mic OF the Lewis County Pure Breeders
association, held at the Southwest
Washington fair grounds at Contralia
The event marked the dedication Of
new stock harms recently completed at
the fair grounds.
The Dennison Fruit company OF
Walla Walla has purchased the apple
crop OF the ]. l.. Dumas Orchard COM
pany, near Dayton, paying $l25 box,
{, o, b. cars, The yield IL estimated at
between 90 and 60 carloads, or between
10000 and 10000 boxes.
j. f, Chatfield, deputy sheriff, died
in hospital at Bellingham, and j. An.
derson, a Canadian, was held in the
county Jail charged by the police with
being his slayer as the result of a re.
volver battle near the Canadian border
two miles east of Blaine
A tract on Fords Prairie, near Cen.
tralia, part of the old Borst estate, re.
Gently purchased by popular subscrip
tion, has been decided to the city. The
tract, marking one of the first white
settlements In southwest Washington,
will be used as public park.
The largest inheritance tax believed
ever to have been paid into the state
treasury was received by c. l.. Bah.
cock, state treasurer, in the amount OF
s32,313,S1 from the estate of John b.
Agen OF King county. The second larg-
est sent in prior to that time was $685..
900 from Spokane county.
ington and western Oregon for the
week ended July % amounted to more
than 50,000,000 feet, according to the
weekly lumber review issued by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
This volume of production was said to
be "a per cent below normal.
The revival Of the lumber industry
on Puget sound is now in sight and
several big camps, which have been
closed, now are preparing to resume
operations a large number of steam
schooners which were tied up by the
marine strike are arriving and viii
again engage in the lumber carrying
trade from the northwest
Chairman A. D. Lasker, of the ship.
ping board, wants to interest Taco
mans in the wooden ships the govern.
ment has on its hands. In letter to
e. P. Keemer, managing secretary Of
the commercial club, he asks that all
persons who might have any ideas for
the utilization of the hulls for break.
waters, pontoons, sea scout vessels, or
other purposes may have their atten-
ton called to the fact that Uncle Sam
has 2S5 of these ships for sale.
The outcome OF the coal strike In
Washington will depend considerably
upon the attitude taken by the mem.
bers of the miners unions who are del
egates to the convention of district 10.
Federation of Miners of the United
States, which convened in Seattle Mon
day, according to Director OF Labor and
Industry Clifford. There is no ten.
dency on the part of the mine owners
to force an open shop fight, said Di.
rector Clifford and the feeling between
the men and the operators is good. The
trouble, according to Clifford, lies in
the fact that the head of the national
federation is taking an uncompromis.
ing attitude.
On returning to Olympia from his
home in Adams county, Dan A Scott,
director of reclamation, announced
that after hearing the vigorous pro-
tests of the department the commits.
sioners of the eastern Washington
county had refused the petitions of res.
idents there for creation OF the Rock
Lake irrigation district. The Rock
Lake district If created would have
comprised $4,000 acres, of which the
department found there would be little
more than 10000 acres that it was
practicable to irrigate, The cost would
have Appropriated 1920 an acre, which
was held prohibitive, according to Su.
pervisor of Hydraulics Chase and En-.
gineer Langlow of the reclamation de.
partment
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