Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-03
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

city service, as the new Cedar falls
unit was but recently installed and had
not been placed in operation.
The state department Of public
works has issued an order placing the
| valuation of the North Coast Power
company plant, which furnishes water
to the city OF Vancouver, at $520,000
This figure was established as the rate
base upon which the company is en-.
titled to earn reasonable return
Valuations will be fixed on public
utilities companies throughout the
state by the department for future
use in adjusting rates.
Gov Hart, who headed party of
state officials that conferred with Ray
mond and Pacific County authorities
at Raymond concerning a bridge to be
built over the south fork of the Villa
pa river on the Ocean Beach highway,
proposes that the city furnish right
of-way and that the county pay $4,000
Of the construction cost. The bridge
is to be taken up at another meeting
in Olympia. The state appropriation
for the bridge is 100000.
Recognizing that the wave of crime
which has prevailed for long time
has reached such alarming proportions
that only organization and the hearth
est cooperation will break it, the
sheriffs, police and railroad detectives
of the northwestern states and the
constables of British Columbia, in ses-
sion at Bellingham, last week formed
what is believed to be combination
with sufficient strength to combat the
criminals and restore order.
Seattle police report they have been
unable to find any trace of J. ]. Hast
ings, ex-vice-president of the Scandin-
avian-American bank of Fargo, N D.,
who disappeared from Seattle shortly
before issuance of warrant charging
him with beng a fugitive from JUS
tice. The warrant was issued Jan
uary 20 at the request of North Dako-
Ia authorities, who informed Seattle
officers that Hastings was wanted in
connection with the alleged embez.
element of $4,000 from the bank.
Announcement that headquarters of
the Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers
association, now in Portland, would be
established in Spokane within a short
time, was made at the convention of
the Washington Grain Growers, Ship.
pers' and Millers' association by Philip
Benedict. president of the Spokane
| Grain Merchants association He also
stated that the local association is
planning establishment of grain ex-
change, where bid and asked quota.
tons on all grains will be quoted.
A division of child hygiene will be
formed as part of the health depart.
ment If Gov. Hart accepts $4,000
! app luC OutDpdl
Towner maternity bill, the state board
of health has decided. The board
commended the action Of DR.. Paul A.
| Turner, director Of health, in ordering
vaccination in the schools of Tacoma,
! Olympia, Aberdeen, Hoquiam and
Walla Walla for smallpox. DR.. Turner
says Washington has more smallpox
per population than any other state.
A prize-winning Delicious apple tree
on the Reard ranch, south of Ephrata,
has been destroyed by rabbits, which,
despite nightly drives to kill them are
over.running Grant county. Haystacks
have been left open to the rabbits in
order that the animals may be in
duced to leave trees alone. Neverthe.
less many trees have been ruined The
outer edges of haystacks all over the
county have been nibbled away, and
many stacks have been tunneled
through next to the ground, the rab.
bits being able to eat the hay only two
feet up from the ground.
First payment on tract in the new
White Bluffs-Hanford land settlement
area probably will not exceed 5000 and
may be much less II cheaper buildings
are desired, the state department of
conservation and development an.
nounced in an information bulletin
issued. The original estimate of the
department was $500. Construction
of buildings and other optional i'm.
provements will be postponed until
the settler is ready to go on the land
that he may indicate his choice, the
bulletin sets out. If all improvements
are furnished, the total cost Of 90.
acre unit will approximate $4,000, the
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