Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-11
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

who seeks reelection, was unsignedI
P. B. Tyler Everett, announced his
intention to run for United States rep
resentative in congress on the farmer.
labor ticket, but he failed to state from
what district.
That there are no engineering dit.
ficulties in the way of the Columbia
basin irrigation project, by which it is
proposed to water 100000 acres of
land in the Columbia river basin in
Washington, was the opinion expressed
at Spokane by Frank NJ Goodwin, as.
sistant secretary of the interior.
L. NJ. Holt, supervising engineer at
Wapato for the Indian irrigation serv.
ice, claims the economy record for the
nation in excavation He is complet.
ing his annual report, which shows
that some 100000 cubic yards of dirt
was turned up and rehandled at an
average cost of 49, cents per yard.
Henry O'Malley, United States Com.
missioner of fisheries, will pay visit
to Grays Harbor and will inspect the
federal salmon hatchery at Lake Quin.
ault when he makes his trip to the
coast next month. The Quinaul hatch
cry was built four years ago under the
personal supervision of Mr.. O'Malley
The interstate commerce commission
has refused to permit the railroads to
cancel the present through rates on
apples from British Columbia, Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho to points in
Virginia, the Carolnas and southeast,
holding that the tariffs which would
supersede present rates are not iusti-
fled
Censure for carelessness contribut.
ing to the death at Seattle of Rev S.
Cameron Morrison, rector of the
Church of the Epiphany who died af-
ter taking poison in mistake for ba-
rum sulphate, was placed on DR.. c. P.
Bryant physician NJ. p Dix, druggist,
and the state drug inspector, by cor
oner's jury.
Continued intense heat in the Klicki-
tat country has caused the danger from
forest fires and fires in the grain fields
of the KlCkitat valley wheat belt to
be much greater than during the month
of July. Old-time residents regard the
present summer season as the most
extremely dry one that ever has been
experienced there.
Wheat crop conditions throughout
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana are about 60 per cent of normal,
due to the prolonged dry spell, flour
milers of Puget sound, Portland and
interior points reported at a meeting
held in Tacoma. Lack of rain through.
out the entire northwest has cut down
the yield perceptibly.
Four times as many automobile Ii
censes were issued and thirteen times
as much money collected during the
first six months of 1922 as there was
during all of 1915 the first year this
state began issuing license plates. Dur,
ing the first half of this year, 1874
licenses were issued and total of
s2,9SO,71O was received in revenue.
The July predatory animal catch
was the largest for that month in
the history of the state The 25 fed
eral and state hunters made an aver.
age Of nearly 10 animals the man, or
321 for the month. or these Sol we're
coyotes, mostly from the rabies sec,
ton of eastern Washington; II bob.
cats, one wolf, one cougar and one
stocl.kllng bear
Deputy Sheriff Woods of Pacific
county has filed complaints in the
justice court at llwaco charging the
masters of IA purse.selnlng craft with
fishing in Washington waters without
having licenses These are the craft
which operated off the Washington
coast during tie period that the TEN.
porary injunction granted by Judge
Cushman was In force.
To ramliarize himself and the en-,
gineers of the department with condi.
lions surrounding road construction in
the west, Thomas II. Macdonald, chief
of the bureau Of public roads, Washing.
ton, D. c., accompanied Governor Hart
and the other members of the state
highway committee on a throe.day in.
spection tour over the Pacific and
Olympic highways This is the first
trip the head of the bureau has made
to the west and upon his conclusions
VIII greatly depend whore ,ha S025,OOO
which the state should receive from the
federal government next year win be
spent.