Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-15
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF Interest
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Motor vehicle license business tran
sacted by the state in the past year
ending December l, amounted to So
S,493,45, compared with $2,925,729.74
n 1921, according to figures issued by
State Treasurer c. L. Babcock. The
largest license receipts We're from
King county, totaling $S70,307. Spo-
kane county contributed S373,eG7:
Pierce county, S33O,161; Yakima, $217-
o66; Snohomish, s15S,74S; Whatcom,
t115,74O; Grays Harbor, $103,473, and
chelan, s1O2, OOS.
Judge William H. Pemberton Of Bel
lingham was sworn in as justice of the
state supreme court at Olympia, sue
ceeding Chester R. Hovey, who was ap-
pointed by Governor Hart year ago
% fill the vacancy created by the death
Of Justice Wallace Mount. The new
justice presented an informal certiti-
cate of election from Secretary of
oIdLt iliAhic, WIN Soulu IOl lOIiudiiy
certify him because of the failure OF
Cowlitz county to canvass the votes
east at the recent election.
About the same proportion OF the
wheat crop of 1922 is in warehouses
as last year, though the total is only
little more than half that of last year,
due to the smaller crop, R. R. White,
chief of the state grain inspection
force, has announced, Reports to Mr..
White from 81 per cent of the ware
houses In the state show that on Octo-
Der 81 there were 10,465,654 bushels of
wheat in storage as compared with
O,931,76 bushels reported by 100 per
cent of the warehouses last year This
years wheat crop ran only 100000
Bushels approximately, as compared
with 55.000.00n bushels last year.
Washington State college will be
asked to pay $25,200 toward the con-
struction of the proposed Pullman sew
age disposal system. This sum, or
two-fifths of the cost of $4,000, was
fixed by the council by resolution as
the proportionate share of the new
system to be borne by the college.
Seven committee appointments in
the stat senate have been conferred
upon Miss Reba Hurn, senator-elect
from Spokane, according to Lieuten.
ant Governor W. J. Coyle of Olympia.
81 have given Miss Hurn everything
she asked for" said Lieutenant Gov
ernor Coyle in commenting on her as
signments.
The eighteenth annual meeting OF
Washington State Horticultural Asso-
citation, the Annual Pack and Grade
conference and the Northwest Fruit
Growers conference was held at the
Davenport hotel in Spokane, December
10, 10, Ia and 10. The meeting estab.
lished the grades of apples and method
Of grading for the coming year.
1t is reported that a legislative re-
apportionment bill along the lines of
the Palmer Initiative bill, which fail
ed to get on the ballot, will be intro
duced in the next session of the legis.
lature. The Cow Counties Defense
league, of which DR.. p. II. Carlton is
president, is preparing to oppose the
measure should it be introduced.
Hance II, Cleland, supervisor of pub
lie utilities in the department of pub
lie works, ordered the Pacific Power
Light company to file new sched
ule of rates under proposed plan
which It is estimated will reduce the
cost of electricity for domestic pur
poses to 95 per cent of the consumers
in the Walla Walla.Yakima territory
served by the company.