Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-29


modify admiralty Jurisdiction so that
stevedores may come under the in.
dustrial insurance acts of the several
states fails of constitutionality be-
cause It would detract from admiralty
jurisdiction power conferred upon
that jurisdiction by the federal consti-
tuition, the state supreme court held
in affirming the decision of the lower
court of King county in the case Of
the state on the relation of the depart
ment Of labor and industries against
w. C. Dawson & Co., a Seattle steve
doring concern.
The work being done by the state
Of Washington in reclamation attract.
led such marked attention when ex-
pIsined before the house committee
on irrigation of arid lands few days
ago by Ivan e. Goodner, state reclaim
alton engineer, that the complete text
Of the state recl,smation act, the state
land settlement act, the constitutional
provision relative to condemnation of
land for reclamation purposes and the
state supreme courts decision In the
land settlement test case are to be EN-.
bodied In the committees report on the
bill to appropriate 100000 for an In
vestigation and report on the Columbia
basin project by the secretary Of the
interior.
What they believe to be list OF
members of the Industrial Workers OF
the World In eastern Washington and
Idaho, was obtained by police at Spo'
kane when, with j. d. Foster, mem
Der Of the Idaho state constabulary
they seized a truck load of records,
propaganda matter and other property
in room in a. lodging house.
Possession of liquor may be unlaw-
full, but it Is also unlawful to steal
liquor from one possessing it, the
supreme court has held, affirming con-
viction of D.. N. Schoonover IN the
superior court of Pierce county on a
charge of grand larceny. Schoonover
was convicted Of the larceny of 165
bottles of intoxicating liquor from
Peter Marineoff in Tacoma.
G. e. West, former mayor of Auburn,
was convicted in superior court in
Seattle Of having maliciously prose.
cuted Matt Starwich, sheriff Of King
county. The penalty for the offense
which was committed In an effort to
prevent reelection Of Starwich last
| month, is from six months to five
,, years in the penitentiary. West an
nounced that he would appeal.
] An alleged conspiracy to steal thou
sands of dollars worth of government
property from the United States navy
yard at Bremerton has been uncovered
by federal agents, they announced after
a federal grand jury had returned liz
dictments charging Clifford G. Mckeel,
navy yard employe, and Gerald Lee
J Clarke, Bremerton merchant, with
stealing equipment from government
warehouses.
Production Of lumber in the north
west last week was 13 per cent below
the normal level, under which the lum
Der industry has been working for the
past several months, according to q
report Of the West Coast Lumberman's
association. Ever. with the falling of
of the market Last week new business
was IA per cent above production. In
all 146 mills in the northwest produced
s7,062,O00 feet of lumber.
From advices received by Director
Scott Of the department Of conserva
ton and development new record
will be established by the department
(, in the development of the Wolf creek
reclamation district project in the
Methow valley, Okanogan county. The
construction work on this project was
started last October and the kA2meri
will have water on their land mex
year. One thousand acres are to bt
brought under water.
The state administration will revert
ON it's appropriations for operation
three times as much this biennium al
the highest reversion in any previous
like period, despite the fact there were
larger appropriations to administer
and the percentage given for operation
was less, according to statement is
sued by L. D. McArdle, director of Of
ficienoy. He gave out figures to show
that In the nineteen months periot
expenditures were $1,S2s6o5 less thar
1.-THE appropriation in such period.