Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22

Early reports OF prune shortage
in Clarke county this year because Of
heavy drop in temperatures are ap-
parently not substantiated and reports
from growers all over Clarke county
indicate that the prune crop will be
as large as last years yield in bulk
and with much larger sizes in pros
pect.
Governor Hart will not interfere
with the Judgment Of the courts in the
case of Ole s. Larson, former presi.
dent of the andinaviau-American
bank of Tacoma, under sentence to the
state penitentiary for embezzlement of
funds of the bank, The governor 50
advised Larson in reply to a petition
for executive clemency.
Hcqu,am voters at a special cleo
ton July 81 will settle the question
of authorizing the city commissioners
to bond the city for $250,0O0 fer
bridge across the Hoquam river
quarter mile south of the present
structure, the only means Of egress
to vehicle traffic of Hoquiam and
points west to the east.
Plans will be considered at the con-
vention of the Washington state labor
federation, which opens in Bellingham
July 8, to unite the labor movement
of the state, financially and morally,
behind the typographical union of Sc
attic, which recently lost case in the
state supreme court brought against it
by the Pacific Typesetting company.
Bridge receipts from the interstate
bridge at Vancouver during the first
five months OF this year were greater
by one-third than those Of the same
period last year, according to re-
port made to the bridge commissioner
The net income for Clarke county dur
ing the past five months was $40,4S7,
as against SCOTIA for the first five
months of 1922
Information has been sent w. ].
Hayes, director of the department of
business control, by John w. Pace,
superintendent of the state peniten.
tiary at Walla Walla, that orders have
been received for 231,0OO iute grain
sacks This is only about one-fourth
of the stock on hand at the institution
but large increase in the orders is
anticipated before harvest.
Three persons were killed, two are
in the Puyallup hospital probably fat
ally injured, and three more were pain
fully hurt when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
freight train one-half mile west of
Sumner All the victims but one were
from HoQuiom. Those killed we're
Audrey Hall, 26; Peter Jensen, so,
and Ed Ramstead, "a.
All district fire wardans in the
state attended an educational confer
ence on fire prevention and suppress
sion in the office Of State Supervisor
Of Forestry Fred Z. Pape at Olympia,
The primary object OF the meeting was
to familiarize the wardens with the
operation Of the new portable one and
two man gasoline pumps which the
forestry department will use this sea
son In fighting forest fires.
Enactment of ah ordinance raising
fares on scattle's municipal street
railway system from cents to 10
cents or three rides for % cents was
completed with the signature Of Mayor
Edwin j. Brown, and the increased
fares became effective Saturday The
Scent fare, in effect since March l,
was abandoned by the city council
when it was shown that the system
was losing more than $4,000 a day un-
der It's operation.
Members of the Ellensburg cham
ber of commerce and Kittitas county
farm bureau united at Ellensburg in
the greatest community project ever
undertaken in the county when bust
ness and professional men, clerks and
farmers put on old clothes and set out
TO clean up the new 1S.acre tract i'm
mediately east Of the Ellensburg city
limits, and which will be the Kittitas
county fair grounds. More than 500
men, 12O teams and four caterpillar
tractors abored all day building roads,
board and wire fences, bridges. grad,
ing and levellng the one-third mile
race track and laying water mains,