Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-07-08
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

at which elaborate entertainment. for
the visiting soldiers and sailors Is
planned, the usual Grays harbor
splash, which has been a Fourth of
July feature for many l4srs, was not
held this year.
Gasoline sold to the state for use
in state machines was subject to the
cent a gallon tax levied on all gaso.
line sales by act of the last legis.
lature. according to an opinion given
to the state license department by At.
torney-General Thompson. The tax
is collected from the distributor.
Use of the mails with intent to de-
fraud is charged in a federal grand
jury indictment against Edward H.
Schafer, president and manager Of the
Oregon-Washington Lumber & Manu-.
at Blaine, and brought to Seattle, where
featuring company, who was arrested
he was released on bail of $500.
Practically every logging camp in
the southwest portion of the state
closed Friday evening for the July
holiday season. Many of the mills on
the South Bend branch lines of the
Northern Pacific and Milwaukee lead
ing out Of Chehalis, and on the Che
halls & CowlitZ road also closed until
after the Fourth.
Arthur Frank, pathologist at the
Western Washington Experiment sta
ton, and Theodore Albert, district hor-
ticultural inspector for the southwest
Washington district with headquar-
ters at Chehalis, report that berry
fields In the Yelm district have been
damaged heavily by root gall and cane
gall.
William Bouck, master of the Wash
ington state grange, violated no state
law in his radical utterances delivered
recently before the convention of the
state grange at Colville, AttOrney-Gen-
eral Daugherty has ruled in a letter
to Senator PoindeXter. Numerous
complaints regarding the Bouck speech
were sent to government officials at
Washington.
The outlook for a large apple crop
in western Klicliitat county was never
more promising and the same can be
said of the wheat crop in the eastern
part Of the county. In the Horse
Heaven district there are several
farms from 1000 to 5000 acres in size,
and it is estimated that some of them
will yield 80 bushels to the acre. In
the Goodnoe hills district a large crop
Of aprcots is promised.
Lumber shipments for the week
just closed from the Western Wash
ington and Oregon territory were l.,
100000 feet in excess of production,
according to the weekly review issued
by the West Coast Lumbermen's as
sociation. The review shows that pro-
duction for the week amounted to S.
S42, 40 feet, compared to shipments of
58,342007 feet. New business an
nounced during the week amounted
to 1884, 40S feet.
The Four-L loggers wage board
meeting at Hoquiam recommended u
hiring wage of 50 cents a day less
than one which has been in effect
since February. The minimum would
be $3.50 for section men and 81 for
loggers and so cents day cut on all
other employees, The cut has been
made necessary, legion officials say,
because of non-legion camps reducing
wages.
Contractors on the North Bank high.
way near Stevenson are increasing the
number of men on their work and are
getting ready for the concrete on the
bridge across Rock creek, as part
of the reinforcing steel Is now in
place and the pits for the piers are
nearly completed. The highway de-
partment is contemplating calling for
bids for five miles of grading and gray
cling from Lookout point west to
Hamilton creek, around Government
slide and across the Cascade flats.
Reward of $1,000 for information
leading to the finding OF the body of
Kate NJ, Mahoney, dead or alive, was
offered by the King county commits.
sioners at the request Of Prosecuting
Attorney Douglas. James d. Mahoney,
husband of the missing woman, was
held on three charges of first degree
forgery while police continued their
search of the bottom of Lake Union
for trunk which they believed might
contain Mrs. Mahoney's body She