Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-20
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

A delegation of Seattle business
men, members of the United States
chamber of commerce, will attend the
eleventh annual convention of that
body in New York city, May s to 10.
Plans to recall Prosecuting Attorney
Charles Leavy of Spokane county have
been abandoned. Leavy had been
charged with malfeasance in connec-
tion with the trial Of perjury case.
twenty-five outside employees OF
the municipal water department OF
Everett quit work upon decision of
the city commissioners to postpone
Indefinitely their request for increased
wages.
Seasonal deficiency of Ala inches
of normal rainfall is reported at Walla
Walla by the government meteorolo-
gist Not since 1902 has there been so
little rain between September and
April 10.
The state capitol committee has de-
cided that contract for completion
of the Legislative building on the new
capitol group at Olympia will be
awarded May on bid not to exceed
$1,5OO,O0O.
Homer J. Gault, assigned by the U.
S. reclamation service as chief en-
gineer in charge of the investigation
of the Columbia Basin irrigation pro-
| iect, for which congress has appro-
priated 100000, has arrived in Spo-
kane.
! All camps in the Willapa district are
! in active operation and are endeavcr-
| ing to provide for sufficient supply
of logs in tide-water booms before
the dry season sets in to protect
| against a shutdown on account of
| fire in the timber.
Seattle's State Tax Limit league
| the 40-mill limit advocate of the late
| legislative session-has taken its stand
with the Seattle chamber of commerce
| in opposition to the plan of the Sc
attic port commission to acquire more
waterfront property.
With more than 40 visiting dele
gates, both pastors and layman, from
different points of Washington, Ore
/ gon, Idaho and British Columbia pres
ent, the 31st annual convention of the
Columbia conference of the Lutheran
Augustana synod was held in Spokane.
Seven carloads of eggs a week are
leaving Winlock at this time. The
Cowlitz Produce company is working
/ two shifts at its guaranizing plant
treating eggs, and has contract to
supply sixty carloads to a cold stor-
age company in Pennsylvania before
June 10.
President Harding will be urged to
make personal inspection of the
Columbia Basin irrigation project dur
ing his proposed trip to the northwest
this summer, according to 5. H.
Hedges, Seattle member OF the Column
bia Basin Irrigation league executive
committee.
According to statistics compiled by
Russell ]. Case of Case & Sons, dairy
men of Fruit Valley, Clarke county's
/ biggest industry is the dairy business.
The annual receipts from dairy pro-
ducts is $75OOO0, which puts the coun-
ty fifth in rank of the dairy counties
of the state.
Plans for improvement at the East
ern Washington hospital for the in
sane at Medical Lake, in Spokane
county, which will increase the facili-
ties of the institution by 200 patients,
were approved by Governor Louis f.
Hart and W. j. Hays, director of busi-
ness control.
j. NJ. Schnatterly of Spokane presi-
dent and manager OF the Idaho Gold
& Ruby Mining company, was instant
ly killed and his body completely de-
stroyed by an explosion and fire
which burned his Kootenai river boat,
the ~. NJ. schnatterly," at Bonners
Ferry, Idaho.
Anthony Carr the last of the origin
al founders of Tacoma, died in that
city in his S3d year. He was born in
Indiana and came to Tacoma in 1866.
He was the first man to use the name
Tacoma on legal document, apply
ing the name to his plat of part of
the present city.