Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-24
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

military training camp this summer,
officers Of the Goth division are pre-
pairing to assemble at Camp Lewis
from July q until August 25. II the
appropriations are made, approximate
ly 1000 students from the northwest
will receive instruction at Camp
Lewis. !
Grain growers, dealers and millers
who met in Walla Wala with r. L.
French, director OF agriculture, went
on record as favorlng reduction Of the
basic test weight for No. white club
to So pounds from go. Growers also
favored changing the rules so that
wheat testing over So pounds would
carry premium to offset the discount
when wheat grades under the test
weight.
N. B. Coffman, Chehalis banker, was
elected president of the Washington
state chamber of commerce by the
board of directors following adjourn
ment of the meeting of the chamber
at Olympia. He succeeds DR.. Francis
A. Laviolette of Bremerton. Colonel
p. Fl. Weyrath of Wala Walla, was
elected vice-president for eastern
Washington and F. D. Case of Wenat.
chez treasurer.
In response to request made by
Puget sound and Alaska fish packers,
northern transcontinental railroads
have established reduced freight rate
on east.bound shipments OF picked
herring, effective April "a, according
to advices, received. The present rate
of IS cents hundred pounds from
north Pacific points to Chicago will
be extended to all points in Pittsburg
and Buffalo territory.
Manufacture of 8O,590,443 feet of
lumber in the week ended March II
and shipments of 76,213,927 feet in
the same period, breaking previous
weekly records for 1921 and 1922, were
reported by 1874 mills affiliated with
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa.
ton. Sales for the week were 67,727,-
927 feet, only slightly below the record
bookings for any week since 1926, ac-
cording to the report.
Abandonment of the Tacoma Rail-
way & Power company's short line
from Tacoma to Puyallup looms as a
possibility, following the statement Of
R. T. Sullivan, general manager, that
If inspection of the trestle over the
Puyallup river indicates the necessity
of rebuilding 1t, the company will dis
continue the line rather than under.
go the expense. 1t would cost ap-
proximately $4,000 to build a new
trestle, said Mr.. Sullivan.
The town of Nelson may go into
the hands of receiver If the advice
of Attorney-General Thompson to
Charles A. Johnson, prosecuting at.
torney of Okanogan county, is follow
ed. Incorporation of the town as a
town Of the fourth class was set aside
by the supreme court recently because
of flaws in the proceedings, leaving
the ex.town treasurer with $1,000 in
taxes collected that he does not know
what to do with. Seeking way out,
the prosecuting attorney asked the at
torney.general's advice.
An outbreak of rabies is raging In
the eastern section of the state, &C.
cording to the department of agricul-
ture. Reports from field agents were
said to indicate similarity Of the
epidemic with that of 1915, during
which 100 persons were bitten by
rabid animals in five Rocky mountain
states before 1t was curbed. Spread
of the disease was attributed In the
departments reports to infected coy.
otes. In number OF cases, 1t was
said, these animals have attacked peo-
pie in their door yards and In the
streets OF the smaller towns.
The first judgment of It's kind to be
entered in favor Of the state as against
dock company for failure to file It's
tariff and annual report has been en-
tered in the superior court of Clallam
county against the Williams Dock
company. AS the company is a small
one, the department asked that only
nominal fine be imposed. Several
other actions along the same line
which have been held up pending do.
cision on this one will be started i'm.
mediately, Attorney.Genera Thomp-
son said. The law provides that fines
In such cases may run as high as