Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-10


mainder of the present biennium, L.
D. McArdle, director of efficiency, an.
nounced. Surveys already have been
completed at the state penitentiary,
the soldiers home at Orting and the
reformatory at Monroe.
On representations made by Senator
Poindexter that the northwest is in
danger of an influx of Objectionable
aliens on account of the discharge of
many Of the immigration employees I'M
der the Seattle district, particularly
those employees who guard the Can.
adian border, Commissioner General
of immigration Husband has modified
his order so that no one-man offices
on the border will be wiped out.
A doctor contracting with the indus.
trial insurance department to care for
an injured workman is responsible for
the continued treatment of the person
during the period of his disability,
even though the term of his contract
may have expired and the period of
the disability extends several years be.
yond, according to brief of an opin-
ion prepared by Major E. S. Gill, super.
visor of industrial insurance, constru.
ing the medical aid law and the liza.
Of nyron ut hnr
Winlock's streets are in darkness
under official approval for the first
time in several years. The lights were
turned off by order of the town coun.
ell. This action was taken after an
opinion by the Encouragement of the
state, who ruled that lights were not
necessity and as such could not BE
legally paid for when the resources of
the town went beyond its legal limit.
Immediate steps will be taken to have
the lights turned on again, and the
cost will be levied by an assessment
method
Applications for land in the White
Bluffs Hanford soldier settlement area
on file with the department of conser-
walton and development have reached
the total of Sc, equal to the number of
tracts in the project Further applica-
lions will be received, but only those
filed before March 10 will be consider
ed in the first allotment of approx
mately so tracts, which were covered
by the departments first advertise.
ment expiring on that date Advertis-
ing on the remaining tracts is now in
course of publication and allotment of
these tracts will be made in about six
weeks.
About 800 diggers and 500 cannery
workers began labors last week in the
annual clam canning season along the
Grays Harbor beaches The center of
activities is at Copalis. Companies in
operation are the Moclips Packing
company, Warrenton Packing com.
pany, Chabot Packing company, Sea
Beach Packing company, Grays Har,
Dor Fishing & Packing company
Strand Fisheries, Karl & Neyman Fish
company and Guilford Packing com.
pany. The price to be paid diggers
has been fixed at 1925 a hundred
pounds, delivered at the canneries.
Last years price was S2.75.
The Spirit Lake Railway G. Power
company of Vancouver, which made an
application to the federal power com.
mission recently for permit for a
power development project at Spirit
Lake, has made additional applications
on the Toutle river and Green river,
which is the north fork of the Toutle.
The project contemplates taking water
from the Toutle at the mouth of Cold
Water creek and from Green river,
near st. Helens postoffice, and bring
ing the water to a power plant near
st. Helens. The proposed project
would develop horsepower of $4,000
minimum and $4,000 maximum.
Dragging talk of William Delmage,
resident of Adams county, of the
means by which he was taking advan.
tage of the high bounty paid on coy.
otes by Lincoln county may result in
the repeal of the special bounty, &C.
cording to word reaching the depart.
ment of agriculture Delmage, after
trapping coyotes in Adams county, took
them on rope across the boundary
into Lincoln county and killed them.
Then he collected the Lincoln county
bounty. He Dragged about his feat at
the county auditors office and even
made affidavit as to what he had done.
Delmage said he collected bounties on
81 coyotes In this manner last year.