Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-07-22
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

rCls will thrive on the fir cone seed,
aCorns and hazelnuts which abound
in the county.
In the most important decision yet
rendered by the department of public
works on the question of granting
certificates Of necessity to the auto
stage lines of the state, the Grays
Harbor Stage company was barred
from running its cars between Aber-
deem and Olympia after midnight Of
July %. The order to this effect
was issued by Director Of Public
Works Elgin V. Kuykendall.
Announcement was made at Olympia
by J. D, Kuehns, formerly manager
Of the Sloan shipyards and custodian
of the property since the yard has
been closed. that sale of the properties
of the company at Olympia and at An
acortes and the Capital City Iron
works in Olympia was proceeding un.
der an order of Judge Netorer of the
federal court in Seattle, directing
George II. Walker, as receiver, to
dispose Of the property. The combin-
ed valuation Of the property is in
excess of 100000.
An option has been taken on 100
acres Of land in the Spokane valley
near Steno, which will be placed at
the disposal of the state land reclaim
alton board in the department of farms
for eX-service men, according to in
formation placed before the state eX-
ecutiye committee of the American
Legion by Charles s. Albert Of Spo.
kane. options have been secured at
800 to $125 an acre, and an expendi-
ture of-about 500 an acre will be re-
quired to place water on the land, the
report of an investigating committee
shows.
That the department Of the interior
should not change the western bound
airy of the Yakima Indian reservation,
thus removing several hundred acres
Of land now in the possession of the
state and placing them within the
reservation, until it has arranged to
give the state of Washington other
lands in lieu of those taken, is the
opinion of Governor Hart, expressed
in letter to Attorney-General Daugh-
erty. Governor Hart says he realizes
that he cannot plead estoppel against
the government but that as matter
Of ordinary justice the department
of the interior should reimburse the
state for the lands taken, inasmuch
as the lines were established by the
federal government itself more than
80 years ago.
Endorsement of the Sweet bill by
congress, which would consolidate all
governmental activities for veterans
under one department, was given by the
state American Legion in convention
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