Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-01-13
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

dustrial show the last week OF July,
by the Seattle chamber of commerce,
northwest products bureau.
The shipping board and the inter-
state commerce committee held joint
hearing at Washington, D. c., on the
protest OF the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce against orders for abrogation
of alleged preferential contracts be-
tween the St. Paul & Great Northern
railway with Japanese shipping line.
Resolutions indorsng the Portland
exposition in 1925, empowering the ex-
ecutiye secretary to act as an arbi-
traitor In re-routing the National Parks
highway through towns, and stipulat-
ing permanent marker for the high
way, were adopted by National Parks
Highway association In session at
| Spokane.
Professor E. II. Steffen, head OF the
| forestry department at the state col
lege, has been appointed chairman of
he agricultural forestry committee as
result of the recent conference OF
northwest lumbermen held in Seattle.
Steps necessary for the establishment
of state forestry policy will be taken
| by this committee in the near future.
Information received at the district
office at Seattle from the central Of
flee of the United States Veterans
bureau stated that veterans taking vo-
cational training in the Pacific north
west district, who are sent to a hos
pital for an extended period OF treat
ment, will hereafter receive temper.
airy disability compensation of $50 or
| 500 month.
Governor Hart has announced that
Fred ]. Dibble, director OF the depart
ent of licenses, also will take over
the duties Of director of fisheries and
| game, succeeding Ernest A. Seaborg,
who has been head Of the department
up to this time. Mr.. Seaborg will be-
come supervisor of fisheries at Se-
attic, a position made vacant by the
resignation Of L. H. Darwin.
Liquor seized without a search war
rant cannot be lawfully introduced as
evidence, according to a supreme court
decision revising the conviction Of the
Adams county superior court Of Fred
Gibbons, who was arrested at Ritz
vile in December, 1920. Gibbons was
granted new trial. The liquor was
taken from Gibbons car, 1t is alleged,
but the court held that evidently no
warrant had been issued at the time
of the seizure.
| Several dozen prominent citizens of
South Bend will have to pay the money
they subscribed to the South Bend
Shipbuilding company, now defunct,
according to,a recent decision Of the
superior court Creditors of the com.
pany had receiver appointed and the
receiver sued those persons who had
not paid up the money they had pledg.
ed. The unpaid pledges run from a
few hundred dollars up to Sic, 900, and
aggregate 100000.
Men who abandoned civil life to aid
in the defense of their country duringl
the recent war are entitled to bonus,
even though they entered service be.
fore April 6, 1917, according to rul.
Ing of the state supreme court, as a
result Of rehearing Of the MaIimil.
liam case. The decision was said to
affect 4425 claimants who were paid
$1,6OS,175 and approximately 900 more
cases where compensation amounting
to $325,OOO was held up.
Preliminary estimates of production
for 1921, made public at Spokane by
G. s. Ray agricultural statistician for
the department of agriculture. showed
a total winter wheat crop for the state
Of Washington of 37,457.OO0 bushels
and production Of spring wheat of
17,2O5,000 bushels. The winter wheat
production is IN Increase of nearly
100000 bushels over 1920. The
spring wheat crop showed little change.
Production of other crops was esti-
mated as follows. Oats, 10,500,000
bushels; barley, 2,797000 bushels;
corn, for grain, 100000; rye, $4,000;
tame hay, 2,621,000 tons; wild hay,
$4,000 tons; potatoes, 7,425,000 bush.
els; peas, 100000 bushels; hops, $780,.
900 pounds; cabbage, 1860 tons; OH.
tons, $4,000 tons; apples, total, 29,-
! O62,OO0 bushels; apples, commercial,
7,775000 barrels; peaches, 772,000
bushels; pears, $4,000 bushels.
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