Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-09
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

struck by severe VIM sturm wnicn
toppled trees, blew in plate glass win.
dows, and in some instances stopped
traffic on the highways because of
limbs broken by the high gale Tele-
phone and telegraph service was Grip.
pied Downpours of rain and melting
of snow in tho mountains swelled
rivers and many parts OF the highways
were covered with several feet OF
water.
Suit was filed in superior court at
Seattle by James +. Allen, contrac-
tor, to restrain the city and three bond
houses from going through with an
alleged secret deal by which the city
last week sold $2,0OO,OO0 worth of
water bonds. Mr.. Allen charged that
the bond houses had falsely and
fraudulently persuaded the city coun-
Gil to sell the bonds at a secret ses.
sion at price far below their true
value"
The state department OF public
works has notified Attorney. General
Thompson to institute court proceed.
ings against 81 public service com.
panies in the state for failure to file
their annual reports with the depart
ment as required by law. The re.
ports have been delinquent since
March. The defendants named in the
action include telephone, water, cleo.
trio light and power, transportation
and irrigation companies.
The state department of public
works held hearings in Spokane Satur-
day to dispose of applications for GER.
tificates Of necessity and convenience
to operate motor stages. The follow.
ing applications were considered: c..
W. Heyer, to operate passenger and
express line between Spokane and
Medical Lake; Robert F. Cairns,
freight, Spokane to Admire; S. w.
Webb and c. c. Webb, passenger and
freight, Spokane to Cheney.
On completion of arguments for the
state public works department and for
the three railroads involved, Federal
Judge Neterer of Seattle, Hunt of San
Francisco and Cushman OF Tacoma
granted at Seattle the railroads appli.
cation for temporary injunction to
prevent the state from interfering with
tariffs increasing southeastern Wash
ingtOn-Puget sound class and grain
rates, 5 per cent. The increase was
made in compliance with the inter-
state commerce commissions decision
in the Columbia basin rate case.
Lower rates on lumber and other
forest products which the railroads in
tend to establish from the north Pa
cific coast to the Atlantic coast and
eastern points will become effective
about December 20, it was said at
western traffic department headquar-
ters Of the Northern Pacific road In
Seattle. The new rates are based on
fir lumber tariff of 80 cents per 100
pounds to New York and Boston from
Seattle and other north Pacific points
The rate to Pittsburg will be 8S1h
cents, to Cincinnati and Detroit IS
cents.
Possibilities for navigation, power
and irrigation with the waters Of the
Columbia river and its tributaries areI
to be discussed at a public hearing
to be held early next year probably
in Spokane, according to a decision
reached by the Columbia river board
at its recent session in Portland. Ac-I
cordmg to Marvin Chase, state super
visor of hydraulics and one of the
members of the board, the report to
be submitted to the federal power
commission will be complete as to the
economic uses Of the streams in the
Columbia river watershed, extending
over Washington, Idaho and Mon.
tana
Before Portland stages the Atlantic.
Pacific highways and electrical exposi.
ton in 1925 Seattle must be prepared
to make bid for part of the scores
of national and international conyen.
tons that will be held in the Pacific
northwest that year. Making this
declaration, the trade secretaries
council OF Seattle has taken the lead
in the movement to finance and erect,
by popular subscription or otherwise,
a great hotel and auditorium, or at
least great auditorium, that will
place the city in position to invite
world fair conventions to meet there
and to entertain whole armies of dele.
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