Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-12
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FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

The Northern Pacific will place lum-
Der orders In the northwest within
the next few months amounting to
more than 100000, according to word
received. An order for 1900 cars, to
cost approximately $3,250,OO0, has
been placed, 1t was announced, and
a large portion of the lumber will be
bought in the northwest.
A warrant was issued at Seattle
for the arrest of ]. M. Finley, presi-
dent Of the Davis Motor Car COM
pany, a local concern, on charge
of false advertising with the allega-
ton that 100000 had been obtained
from Seattle investors who were in
duced by misrepresentation to buy
stock in the Davis company.
After drifting eight days, the 49.foot
gasoline boat Frieya, Captain F. D.
Beale in charge. was picked up out
side Willapa Harbor by Captain o. c.
Hawthorne of the Westport lifesaving
station. Four men, members of the
crew, were on the Frieya with Captain
Beale. None Of them suffered any
hardships, although their remaining
food was covered with mildew,
'Formal complaint was issued by the
federal trade commission in Wash.
ington, D. c., against the Douglas Fir
Exploitation & Export company and
107 stockholders and officers in the
respondent association, who are lum-
Der manufacturers in the states of
Oregon, California and Washington.
The complaint charged conspiracy to
hinder and obstruct competition.
Rains during the last few days have
not injured the Clarke county prune
crop, in spite of the fears of many
growers, according to A. A. Quarn-
berg, government horticultural expert.
The season is unusually late getting
started because of the cold rains early
in April. Only once before in 80
years, according to Mr.. Quarnberg's
records, has the season had a later
start.
The case of the city of Camas
against ]. P. Higgins and j. K. Nc
Gill, which started in police court and
has been through the supreme court
three times, was finally disposed of
when the supreme court affirmed the
superior court of Clarke county in
giving the city judgment against Nc
Gill for 500 for continued violation of
the citys fire limits ordinance in con.
struction of theater.
The Jefferson county commission
ers have voted to substitute ferry
for automobile traffic between Port
Townsend and Ebey's Landing on
WILDLY Island, opening May Is. This
will provide detour for Seattle
motorists making the Olympic high
way trip to the Pacific ocean by per-
hitting cars to cross WILDLY island,
and go via Everett or Anacortes back
to Seattle, obviating long return
run around the upper reaches of Puget
sound via Olympia.
Discovery of the presence of white
pine blister rust In three counties
Skagit, Snohomish and Jefferson
caused the state department of agri-
culture to order the destruction of all
black currant bushes west of the Cas-
cade mountains and to prohibit ship
ment from one county to another of
any variety of currant bushes and of
gooseberries. The blister rust, it has
been discovered finds nursery in
these varieties of bushes and cannot
spread without them, The precau-
tion was taken because it is feared
the disease, finding no white pine,
might develop in some other timber
of The state
The states brief as respondent in
the case of the city of Tacoma against
the state of Washington, ON appeal
to the supreme court from order and
| judgment of the superior court of
Mason county, holding that lands and
premises of the state on the Skyko.
mish river could not be condemned
for the proposed Cushman power pro.
ject, has been filed in the supreme
court. The lower court held that land
held by the state for the purpose of
oyster reserve and fish hatcheries
is held by the state in It's govern
mental capacity and is no more SUBJ
ject to condemnation than the state
capitol grounds" The state asks af.
firmance Of the judgment of tho trial
court for the reasons given by that
court In its decision.