Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

In an address before tn state Asso.
citation og County Game Commissioners
and tame Wardans at Bellingham. J
W Kinney, state game warden, recon-.
mendcd that Il modern fish hatchery
and office building be built on the
campus Of the University of Washing.
ton, Seattle.
Under orders from General Morton,
corps area commander at Preside,
Colonel Thomas NJ Anderson of the
18th infantry, commanding officer at
Vancouver barracks, and Major Wild
OF the 9th army engineers, stationed
al Camp Lewis. have been sent to
Astoria, Or, as a special army board.
They will obtain data in connection
with the proposed reconstruction work
in the devastated district of the city,
{ be submitted to the war department.
Although offered salary of $4,000
a year by the University of Piusburg,
President Henry Suzzallo states that
he will stay with the University Of
Washington, which recently increased
his salary from $4,000 to $4,000,
The first years experience with the
flat rate schedules promulgated by
Director of Labor and Industries Cliff
ford shows that under the new system
it is almost impossible for employers
to escape paying their share OF indus
trial insurance costs.
The 1922 prune yield in Clarke coun-
ty is placed at 100000 pounds Of
packed fruit by William Wood, manag-
er of the Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation. The growers assocl-
alton will handle 100000 of the total.
The crop Of Independent growers is es-
timated al 100000 pounds.
The Washington delegation in con-
gress was requested in a telegram
sent by the Seattle chamber of com
merce to support bills that have been
introduced by Senator McNary and
Representative Hawley of Oregon to
appropriate money for the relief of
Astoria, Or, devastated by fire.
As result of the cold snap, the Co.
lumbia river was filled with floating
cakes of ice down to point about
forty miles above Astoria and naviga-
ton by wooden vessels was hindered.
Steel craft were able to run without
serious delays, but wooden vessels
were sheathed before making the trip.
A remarkable tribute to the health
of the Puget sound country is express,
ed in the statistics Of the United States
army, showing the number Of deaths
of enlisted men in the principa! can
comments in the United States between
October l, 1917 and December 81, 1919.
Camp Lewis reported only S41 deaths.
Wallport Inn, unique and picturesque
hotel at Cooks, Skamania county, on
the North Bank highway, was burned
10 the ground with its treasures of
curios, representing the handiCratt OF
most every country in the world, val
ued at $4,000. The building was val
ued at $4,000 The fire originated
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The juvenile court law making no
provision for bail for persons arrested
under it and specifying that adjudging
a minor delinquent or dependent shall
not be deemed conviction Of a crime,
there is no provision for appeal from
juvenile court judgments and statu'
tory provisions for criminal court bail
DO not apply, the supreme court has
held.
Poll taxes for the current year were
not repealed by the poll tax repeal mi
tiative, which was carried at the No
yember election, the measure not be
lu6 IbJludIllNti ilClu 1AItSA MY -NNiiNi a.
Thompson in an opinion to G. A. Wei
don, prosecuting attorney of Whitman
county. Such taxes for this year have
not been paid and are delinquent and
collectable, the opinion held
Snow storms throughout the state
have brought the highway department
into the business of clearing the snow
off country roads just as is done by
the larger cities on their streets. Or
the paved highways graders were used
but where the snow Is light 1t is be
lieved the big revolving brushes USED
in cities to sweep up the dirt would
be effective. For country roads drag!
made v.sbaped are recommended The
vast increase Of yehlcuar traffic L
compelling the state to keep the road