Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-18
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Six acres Of the Standifor steel
sbipyard site at Vancouver, which is
now in the hands of the port Of Van
couver, will be leased by the North.
western Equipment company Of Sc.
attic, which plans to build a branch
plant there.
An echo OF the old Everett fight re-
lative to the use of telechronometers
for measured telephone service has
reached the department of public
works again through the filing by At
! torneys Roberts and Skeel of Seattle,
representing the Telechronometer COM
pany of America, OF petition of 1900
names Of telephone subscribers in
Everett, asking for the restoration of
the measured servics and rate sched-
ule.
Postal officials have confirmed re-
ports from Wallace of the recovery
from Mrs. L, J. Hicks of S2700 alleged
to have been stolen year ago by her
husband from mail sack at Kellogg,
Idaho. This leaves unaccounted for
$4,000 of the loot.
Strauss Bascule Bridge company of
Chicago has filed with the Seattle
city council claim for 100000 dam
ages, alleging that City Engineer J.
D. Blackwell had made a "libelous
statement" concerning it in a letter
to the board of public works.
Reductions ranging from to 10 per
cent in residential lighting rates and
from l to 10 per cent in commercial
lighting rates are called for in tariffs
filed with the department of public
works for the city of Seattle by the
Puget Sound Power e Light company,
to become effective June l.
Application for appropriation of the
waters of Klickitat river for irrigation
projects to be constructed by the
Grand Dalles Irrigation Canal com
pany, totaling $3.50 acres in Klickitat
county, has been made to the state
division of hydraulics. Estimated cost
of the project is given at 100000.
Two suits against the c., NJ. & St.
P. railway company, totaling S47720
have been filed in superior court at
Ellensburg by John Parkes, who was
seriously injured, his wife instantly
killed and their automobile demolish-
ed in a crossing collision on the out
skirts OF Elensburg in April, 1922.
Gross mismanagement of the affairs
of the Franklin county irrigation dis
trict combined with serious shortages
In financial accounts were charged
against former officials of the district
in report compiled by Examiner A.
J. Hoskin, department. Of efficiency,
and filed with Attorney General Dun
bar
A record April catch was made by
state, federal and cooperative hunters
last month, according to Predatory
Animal Inspector Bach. There were
26S animals captured an average of
fourteen per man. They included eight
bobcats, one stock-killing bear 110
adult coyotes, 146 coyote pups, one
fox and two badgers.
The May l crop report for Washing
ton forecasts a winter wheat crop con
siderably larger than 1922 and in eX-
cess of the average for the past ten
years. The report, as issued by G. 8.
Ray, further indicates a slight increase
in Washington's hay acreage as oom-
pared with last year. Spring ploy'ing
and planting have made fine prog! nss.
The state distributed only S54,71S
worth of wheat to farmers in drought
stricken areas Of eastern Washington
this spring from a $250,000 appropria-
ton made by the last Legislature, ac-
cording to final figures from the de-
partment of conservation and develop
ment. This amount represented 265
applications and 41,450 bushels Of
grain.
Plan to include in the Columbia
basin irrigation project 10000 acres
south of the Snake river, extending
into the vicinity Of Freewater, Or,
has been presented to officials of the
department of the interior by John
Langdon of Walla Walla, member
of the board OF trustees of the Colum-
bla Basin Irrigation league, it is an.
nounced.