Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-10-21
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FOR OUR busy READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

that fish traps on tnc Satsop river had
been closed and that great numbers Of
the fish We're dying in the traps Mr..
Rice said the traps on the Satsop have
been open all summer
Liquor obtained by federal prohi.
bition officers in raids in eastern
Washington will not be destroyed in
future if a request is made for it by
government agencies for medicinal
mechanical or scientific purposes" ac-
cOrding TO an announcement made by
Federal Judge Rudllin.
According to the returns of the 14th
census there were 57S,470 persons 10
years of age and over in Washington
state engaged iii gainful occupations
lin 1920, constituting i2.6 per cent eff
the total population of the state a.
856,62D and 52.5 per cent of the pop
ulatton 10 years Of age and over.
According to a statistical report of
infant mortality in 1920 in 5l9 cities
in the United States published by the
American Child Hygiene association,
Tacoma shows the lowest death rate
a thousand for any city in the United
States in its class, that is, having a
population between $4,000 and 100000.
The Pacific Bridge company has
started work on the new bridge on
the Pacific Highway across the Cow
litZ river within the Kelso city limits.
The two shore piers and approaches
will be built this fall and winter and
the mid-stream piers will be left I'M
til the June frcshet next spring, when
there will be slack water in the Cow.
.litz.
Seattle had grand total of $751;
$500 invested in established manu-
featuring plants in 1919, an increase
Of 1915 per cent over the invested
capital of 1914, according to a prelim-
mary statement OF the results of the
1920 census Of manufactures, cover
ing the year 1919 for cities Of Wash
ington having a population of 10000
or more.
Ranchers throughout Chelan, Doug
las and Okanogan counties are pre-
pairing to make vigorous fight against
the present game laws when the legis-
lature meets. They assert that preda-
tory birds, such as Chinese aud Hun
garian pheasants, are protected by
laws, though they do thousands of
dollars worth of damage annually.
Hunters ostensibly after game are
accused of injuring property, steal,
ing apples and shooting cows and
chickens.
R. V. Booth, a lawyer of Minneapolis,
is in Wenatchee to prepare evidence
in damage suits to be brought by
fruit growers and shippers against
the Great Northern Railway in case
of failure to move the crop before kill.
ing frosts. Booth recently won an S.,
OO0.O0O damage case against the 500
Line for causing forest fires. Shippers
are making written demands for a
specified number of cars and keeping
certified records of cars supplied. The
car situation is somewhat improved,
Buried in his canoe and with his
steel bow strapped to his body, the
covered by the wind at Wallula last
mains Of an Indian chief were un
week. The shallow grave was direct
! ly back of the WalluIa Hotel, which
has been built for more than forty
years. Pioneers assert that the grave
IS at least sixty years old, as Indians
stopped buryiug their dead in this
district about that time. The body
was in almost a perfect mummiried
condition and yormillion war paint still
was plainly discernable on the face