Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-05-27

Every King county resident who
holds poll tax receipts issued by Coun.
ty Treasurer Gaines Is liable to a
second payment of his tax because
the receipt is not the legal form pre-.
scribed in the state law, according to
c. w. Clausen, state auditor.
Grays Harbor port commission Is
asking for bids on an issue of 5000.
900 worth Of an authorized 100000
issue Of bonds, to be opened June
|. 1t will be tho first sale of the is.
sue. Bonds will run 20 years and bear
interest at the rate of 6 per cent, pay.
able annually.
Recommendation that 7000.foot
peak In the Tatoosh range, Rainier
national park, be named Lane peak in
honor of Franklin X. Lane, ex-secre.
tary Of the interior, who died last
week, has been forwarded to the ma.
tional geographic board by the Rainier
park advisory board
The largest still ever seized in Wala
| Walla county was taken on the vii.
liam Russell farm near College Place.
The still had a capacity of one gallon
Of moonshine every II minutes and
represented an outlay of $4,000. The
still was cleverly concealed under a
specially constructed stack of hay.
A, K. Seaborg, director Of fisheries
for the state, while in South Bend,
Thursday, blasted the hopes Of the
clam diggers who had hoped to get a
25.day extension of time in which to
dig clans. The season by law closes
May 80. He declared that he has
absolutely no authority to extend the
time.
Fresh ling and red cod reached the
low price level of 1 cent pound on
the Seattle fish exchange last week.
| Twenty.seven hundred pounds brought
In by the schooners Alice B., and
Aurora sold for s27. According to re
ports, masters of fishing vessels are
| throwing overheard hundreds of
| pounds Of cod because of the low price
Threats that bread will be sold at 4
cents loaf by openshop bakeries Of
Spokane, unless other bakeries employ.
ing union help join the open+shop
movement we're alleged to have been
made by the Spokane bakery and other
open-shop establishments in an an.
swer filed by the union bakers to the
injunction suit of the Spokane bakery
and other plants.
The first carload of supplies for the
new public health service hospital at
Fort Walla Walla has arrived and with
it came Colonel Wood of San Francis,
co. acting assistant quartermastergen.
eral, to turn the buildings and grounds
over formally to the health service.
The supervising architect was expect.
ed to arrive soon to draw plans for the
new buildings. About 100000 will be
spent.
Tacoma lumbermen demanded ma.
terial reduction in the cost of living
at meeting held with the Tacoma
Retail Grocers association. Living
costs are higher in Tacoma than any
other city in the northwest, except
Aberdeen, the lumbermen told the gro,
GERS. They added that wages must
| come down il mills are to continue to
operate and in turn they would fight
for their employees to make the scale
cover the cost Of living.
New business in the lumber indus
try of Washington and Oregon for the
past week was in excess OF the output
for that period, according to the week
ly review issued by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association. The volume
of new business for the week was also
in excess Of shipments. Production
was given as 59,S79,194 feet, or 2S pei
cent below normal. New business EoI
the week was 64,69S,311 feet, while
shipments totaled 5S,192,SO7 feet.
For 40 days liquor runners will be
free to run shipments of liquor into
Seattle and other Washington cities
without federal interference, except
that coast guard cutters, the Scout tht
Arcata and the Guard, will center or
an attempt to st>p wholesale ship
ments by water. Consignment.
brought by land will be subject only tc
blockade by sheriffs and local police
Lack of funds Is given as the rea
son for the temporary paralyzation o
the federal enforcement work. Unit
new appropriation Is available OF
July i, agents salaries will stop.