Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-26
STATEMENTS BOILEDDOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

Tacoma will continue Tia fight for
the cancellation OF the recent order
Withdrawing terminal rates Oh cargo
from Atlantic ports. at a further meet
Ing of the Atlantic intercoastal con.
ference to be held In New York.
Extension OF the clam season, which
ia scheduled to close June 1, will be
asked by cannerymen and diggcrs In
Grays Harbor county II Is announced.
Due to tides, cold weather and storms,
the pack to date is below normal.
Rockport and vicinity are expert
enclng gold excitement, caused by
two workmen on the new road be.
tween Concrete and Marble having
found some specimens of ore which
assayed s5S in gold and IS in silver
to the ton.
Reopening OF the contention be-
tween the Observation-Disclosures and the
Tacoma health department was pre-.
Gtcted when City Health Officer Kane
notified DR.. Il. A. Layton, school ply
stefan, that pupils of the Sherman
school must be vaccinated within
three days or be quarantined for
period of IS days.
Labor conditions In the state nre
showing rapid improvement, with the
demand for farm labor In some acc
tons slightly exceeding the supply, ac.
cording to J. s. Mcintosh, commits
sioner of the bureau of statistics and
immigration in the office Of Secretary
of State Hinkle.
Washington will get $4,000 this
year from the Weeks law fund for
forest protection, that being the maxi.
mum amount allotted to any state,
R. H. Chapter, Weeks law inspector
of corporations for district 6, Wash.
ington and Oregon, has advised F. E.
Pape, state forest supervisor.
Increase of the hunter force from
four to seven men and establishment
of heavy trap lines will be the method
adopted in Spokane county to endi-
cate rabid coyotes, and no quarantine
will be established for the present,
at least, Glenn r. Bach federal pre-
datory animal inspector, has announc-
ed
DR.. David Livingstone, prominent
Centralia physician, was appointed toI
succeed DR.. William N. Keller as
superintendent of the western state
hospital for the insane at Steilacoom,
following acceptance of the resigna.
ton of DR.. Keller by w. J. Hays, direc.
tor of business control. The change
will be made June l.
Hundreds of spectators watching a
circus parade on Seattle downtown
street witnessed a spectacle not list
ed in the days events when Dolly,
Harry and Pasha, three large Bengal
tigers, engaged in fierce battle in
their cage. When trainers finally
separated the animals Pasha, largest
of the trio, was dead.
War department orders were re-
ceived at the headquarters of the third
division at Camp Lewis for the move.
ment of approximately 1900 troops to
other stations in the west before the
end of the present fiscal year on June
30. Some additional troops were
ordered moved in September after the
conclusion of the summer training
camps.
William Bouck and other seeding
members of the Washington state
grange are permanently enjoined from
using the word grange as part of the
title of the organization they formed
after their secession. The formal
order in restraint was signed by Su.
perior Judge Ronald at Seattle, after
his decision in favor of the Washing.
ton state grange, Patrons of Hus.
bandry, in the action brought several
months ago against Bouck and his
associates.
Washington automobile drivers who
cross the line into Oregon and operate
their vehicles in that state while in
toxicated, are just as likely to lose
their operators licenses as though
they stayed on the roads of their home
state, and the same rule goes fol
wet" Oregonians who come to Wash
ton. An agreement to that effect ha,
been reached by Sam A Kozer, secre
tary of state of Oregon, and L. d
McArdle, director of efficiency 70,
Washington, the two officials head
ing the highway safety forces of theil
respective states.