Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-16
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

community club has been organic
cd at Winlock,
The Vancouver Rifle club will form.
q women's auxiliary.
A mild epidemic of influenza is
sweeping the city of Bellingham.
The Walla Walla County Taxpayers
association has gone on record against
an income tax in this state.
Columbia county will issue pub.
licity book this year in connection
with the annual auditors report.
January lumber shipments from
Grays Harbor were large, 66,172,234
feet being dispatched in A vessels.
1t would be unconstitutional to in
crease his salary, Attorney General
L. L. Thompson has advised the legis-
lature.
A better prune chautauqua," in
which all of the prune growers OF
Clarke county will take part, will be
held some time this month.
Conviction of Irving Whitehouse,
Spokane broker, for grand larceny, by
the Spokane county superior court,
was affirmed by the supreme court.
Governor Hart has issued requisi-
tion upon the governor of California
for the reuu.n of John Burner, wanted
In Tacoma on a charge of grand lar
eeny.
Samples of 1853 varieties of clay were
tested at the ceramics laboratory of
the University of Washington in 1922,
for the clay industry OF the north
| west.
Construction has been begun on the
new United States veterans hospital
at Camp Lewis. The structure, when
completed and equipped, will cost al
most s3,OOO,OOO.
The Seattle port commission has de
cided to freeze small fry fish for her
ring and halibut bait, saving the local
fishermen from going to British Colum
bla for this bait.
Several educators of national prom
inence from other colleges will join the
University of Washington faculty for
the summer quarter which will open
June 10 in Seattle.
All permanent highways in Pend
Oreille county will be closed to travel
for logging trucks or motor vehicles
of more than one-ton capacity from
February Is to May 81.
The body of Joe Cole, formerly EN-
| ployed as coal miner at Kopiah, was
found, together with that of another
man, in refrigerator car at Wallula
the two having been asphyxiated.
The Okanogan apple crop will be
heavy, according to fruit men who
have been inspecting the orchards. The
fruit buds are plentiful and SO far cor
ditions are favorable to a heavy pro
duction.
In annual meeting at Walla Walla
the Senaha Wool Growers associa
ton passed resolution urging the
state legislature to match dollar fol
dollar federal aid in predatory anima'
eradication work.
| Olympia is putting in new fire hJ
drants, in keeping with the demands Of
the city's growth The new fire plugs
will be double the diameter or foul
times the capacity Of the old hydrantI
which they replace.
Five thousand dollars Is bequeathet
to Samuel Glasgow, former city com
missioner aud pioneer miller of Spo
kane, on condition that he does mo-
remarry, according to the will of hii
wife, Mary Jane Glasgow.
A special rule under which the hous
may take up the bill authorizing ap
propriations of 100000 and $4,000
respectively, for federal surveys of tn
Columbia basin and Umatilla rapid
irrigation projects, appears to be as
sured.
Process for canning shrimps in her
metlcally sealed cans which EVENTUAL,
will build up thriving shrimp in
dustry in this state, has been work
ed out in the laboratory of the colleg
of fisheries of the University of Wash
ington.
King county court records wer
wiped clean of criminal proceeding
against officers OF the defunct Scandin
avian.Anerican banl, when the last o
the grand jury indictments was dis
missed on motion of Prosecuting Attoi
ney Douglas.