Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-17
STATEMENTS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

050,laO feet OF lumber; sold 66,3Oi, 1854
feet, and shipped G3,3GS,33S feet. Pro.
| duction was l3 per cent below normal;
now business was 10 per cent below
production, and shipments II per cent
below production.
Suspension Of one teacher who re.
fused to submit to vaccination and the
keeping Of more than 100 pupils from
school for eighteen days because their
parents refused to submit to tho state
board Of healths order requiring all
pupils to be yaccinated who had not
undergone such treatment within the
last seven years, nor had the smallpox,
caused considerable drop In attendance
In Aberdeen schools last week
Suit involving $5S,6di43, alleged to
be due King county rs taxes for 1919,
probably will go to trial IN federal
court as result Of decision handed
down at Seattle by Federal Judge Il.
| u. Cushman The court ovorrulcd a
demurrer made by the county which
claims the right to tax the former
| property of the Seattle Dry Dock &
Construction Co., since taken over by
he United States shipping board
Secretary of State Hinkle has asked
all prosecuting attorneys to warn the
public that those who sign initiative
petitions without being registered vot.
ers, or who sign more than one, are
liable to prosecution. After last
| springs referendum petitions we're
checked, more than 10000 names had
been compiled and sent to prosecuting
attorneys. 1t cost the state $4,000 to
check and reject these unlawful names.
Transcontinental railroads serving
the Pacific northwest have decided to
make sharp reduction in their rate
on dried Goldfish shipped from Seattle
and other north Pacific ports to the
gulf ports for export to Cuba, accord.
| ing to advces received from st. Paul
headquarters by w, Il. Conan, west.
ern traffic manager Of the Northern
Pacific railroad. The new rate Will
be 95 cents hundred pounds and will
be put into effect on short notice
Information was filed against Miss
Ia, hn
Pineview school at Boston Harbor pen.
insula, at Olympia, in superior court,
by Roscoe Fullerton, prosecuting attor.
ney, charging her with violating
board Of health order, and warrant
was issued for her arrest. 1t was al.
legged that Miss Sylvester refused to
be vaccinated for smallpox and is now
conducting private school at her
home, following the closing of the Pine
view school by the directors.
Thirty applications have been re.
ceived from women in all parts of the
United States for lookout positions in
the Olympic forest reserve. The popu
larity of the duty is attributed to wide
publicity given Miss Marie Olsen,
former lookout, who won fame for her
service through the pages of the Amer.
lean Magazine year ago. Despite
Miss Olsens success, the applications
have been rejected on the grounds that
the work in the Olympic reserve is too
hazardous and the fire-fighting duties
too difficult.
Clark W. Savidge, state land com.
missioner, has returned from Portland
where he conferred with federal gov.
eminent officials on the land exchange
carried out between the state and fed
eral governments. In the exchange the
state of Washington is given more than
100000 acres of timber land in eX.
change for those sections taken by the
government and included in the forest
reserve The lands taken were um.
surveyed sections of heavily timbered
school lands, the timber of which is
now being cruised.
More than million dollars have
been taken from Seattle people every
year of late by fraudulent oil, mining
and other stock selling schemes, &c.
cording to statement made by John
S. Swenson, city postoffice Inspector.
The statement followed the arrests of
Herbert p. Hammond, vice.president of
the Mutual Sales company, and of John
O'Conner and Leroy Bigelow, repre-.
senting the Association Placer Oil
Land Location company These were
the first arrests under secret indict-
ments by the federal grand jury based
on many weeks Investigations by post
office inspectors, aided by the Better
Business bureau of the Seattle AID
| Club.