Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-19
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

A winter wheat crop in Washing
ton somewhat smaller than last
years but larger than the average for
ten years, was indicated by the gov.
eminent crop report of conditions
May /. A total production for the
state Of 2S,403,000 bushels, with an
acreage of 100000 acres, was fore.
cast.
Reports to the state department Of
agriculture from It's field agents mini.
mize the damage to fruits and vege.
tables in southwestern Washington
through recent frosts. The damage is
confined to the early vegetable crops
and early Strawberries in the Walla
Walla, Kennewick and Prosser re.
gions.
A large tract Of government timber,
comprising some 100000 board feet
of yellow pine and 100000 board feet
of Douglas Fir, was sold to the Great
Northern Lumber Company of Leaven.
worth, through the district foresters
office Of the forest service. The tim
Der lies on Second creek, in the We
natchee national forest.
Prosperity dawned for central Grant
county Friday when Gov. Hart at noon
threw the switch opening the Wash.
ington Water Power company's new
power line which will light up Ephra.
ia, Neppel, Adrian, Stratford, Water
vile, Soap Lake and other towns and
provide power for irrigation of $4,000
acres of sagebrush desert.
A new hearing on the establishment
Of drainage district in the Zenker
valley, north of Centralia, will be held
at Joint meeting of the Lewis and
Thurston county commissioners. A
Spokane firm to which the construc-
ton contract was awarded has refus.
ed to sign the contract on the ground
that technical errors were made i'll the
proceedings at the original hearing.
Plans were announced at Tacoma
for SNOWFALL battle between promin.
ent residents of that section to mark
the opening of the season at Rainier
national park on June IT, Major-Gen-
eral Charles H. Muir, commander OF
Camp Lewis, will lead his forces in
a snow attack upon the defending
army, commanded by Superintendent
w. H. Peters of the park. Seattle,
Tacoma and other cities will combine
in a parade to the park for the open
ing.
Mysteriously missing for more than
a year, 20 applications for the state
bonus to veterans have turned up
even more mysteriously in the mail
delivered to the veterans compensa-
ton department. The applications
were mailed April 80, 1921, by the
American Legion post at North Bend
to the King county auditor Since that
time the bonus department had many
requests for information from the APP
plicants, and about half of the men
have been paid on duplicate applica-
TONS
In spite OF the fact that the Wash.
ington state fish commission has is
sued an order forbdding operation
Of purse seines in the waters Of the
Pacific ocean along the coast of this
state and the Oregon anti.purse seine
law has been held constitutional, re-
port comes from Puget sound that a
fleet of purse seine boats will arrive
off the mouth Of the Columbia river
on July /. Ostensibly, they are plan
ming to operate outside the three-mile
limit, In territory over which neither
state has jurisdiction. 1t is under
stood that strict patrol will be main
tanned so that the craft may not en-
croach on the three-mile limit.
Consttutionallty OF the law Great
ing the state fisheries board and dele.
eating to it powers to fix open and
closed seasons for the taking of food
fish from the waters of the state was
upheld by the supreme court in affirm
anCe Of the decision of Judge Augustus
Brawley of Skagit county Diminishing
the case Of G. s. Vail against e. A.
seaborg, supervisor of fisheries, and
the state fisheries board Mr.. Vail
sought to enjoin enforcement of the
orders of the board CLOSING Puget
sound waters to salmon fishing be.
tween August 26 and September 10,
and between October rs and April 80,
claiming that delegation of such auth
GRITTY by the Legislature was an unlaw.
full delegation of legislative power.