Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-15


ing circulated in the vicinity of Top.
ponish by the Utah-Idaho Sugar com.
pany as a result of the successful sea.
son Just completed. Ordinarily the
company has waited until spring to
make contracts for beets with the
growers, but It was decided this year
that to sign up earlier would prove
more advantageous to growers and the
factory
The biennial report of the state park
board, which consists of Treasurer C..
L. Babcock, Secretary of State J. Grant
Hinkle and Land Commissioner C. v.
Savidge, will show the state now owns
$500 acres OF public parks. When the
board was created by the last legisla-
ture only twenty acres were owned by
the state. The additions have been
made by donations from private own
ners ard the federal government.
Sale of 100 fur hides from the Octo-
Der and November takes of coyotes,
bobcats and bear to a Seattle fur
house for $72S.5O was consummated
by Dr. Glenn r. Bach, federal preda-
tory animal inspector here. The skins
included 95 coyotes. which brought
$3.50 each; three bobcats, at 50 each,
and two bear, at IS each. Coyote
skins brought $11O more apiece than
those sold month ago, despite reports
of falling market.
Two proposals were made by city
officials to help solve the unemploy-
ment situation in Walla Walla which
is growing worse. One is to set aside
revolving fund and purchase wood
and saws, putting the men to work
cutting wood and then selling wood.
The men would get board and keep"
Another plan is to establish wood
camp on upper Mill creek and keep
the men there. Many men are drift
ing in here from other places look
ing for work. There is none to be
had
Proclamations have been issued by
Governor Hart covering action of the
voters Of the state on initiative and
referendum measures and constitu-
tional amendments submitted on the
November ballot The initiative meas
ure to repeal the pool tax law and two
constitutional amendments, one chang
ing the state fiscal year and the other
fixing venue for a crime committed
on public conveyance in any county
through which the conveyance passes,
were declared carried All other
measures we're defeated.
The plurality of c. c. Dill over Miles
PoindeXter in the November election
was 1887 votes, according to the Of
ficial figures of Secretary of State J.
Grant Hinkle, which was certified by
Gov. Louis F. Hart. The complete
vote on United States senator was:
Dill, 130,S47; PoindeXter, 126,41O; Dun
can, 1896; Burgess, 1904; Bostrom,
1872. The vote cast in the election total.
ed 313,252. Official figures have been
held up by the failure of Cowlitz coun.
ty to make returns, due to the county
seat controversy, which is now In the
supreme court.
Automobile fatalities in the state
show material decrease this year
under last, according to figures OF
the department of health. issued
through L. D. McArdle, director of eff
ficiency and head of the highway pa
troll. Up to November l this year
there were las deaths from this cause
compared with 1873 in the same per-
od last year Fatalities in cities de.
creased from SO to 81 in the first
ten months, while outside of cities the
total was reduced from 100 to II.
Director McArdle expressed his belief
that fewer deaths are the outcome of
stricter traffic enforcement by state
and city officials.