Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-12

positions In the forest service exam.
nations will be held October % In
seven towns in Washington for quail.
fled applicants, according to an an.
nouncement OF the United States civil
service commission.
A. W. Simmons, president of the
Walla Walla Valley Prune Growers
association has returned from Kansas
CITY, where he was located inspect.
ing the marketing of the association
prunos. He said that the prune mar.
lIet has become demorali2ed and as Of
result the growers will receive low
price for their product.
With completion Of the official can.
vass OF the special congressional clec.
ton, Judge Sam B, Hill, Waterville,
democrat, was shown to have a ma.
jority of 77S over State Senator C.
L. Myers, Davenport, republican, in
the fifth congressional district, Hills
total being 1858 and Myers 1880.
A caravan of 1000 automobiles will
leave Olympia on the morning Of Oct
ober rs for the formal dedication of
the Pacific highway. The governors
of Oregon and Washington and other
officials of the two states and high
officials of British columbia will ac-
npt "a ., orat "a ,t,l,t tpl wti ha
led by the highway patrol of Washing
ton. 4
Cities operating under the commits
sion form of government hold their
elections on the first Saturday OF
December, and the primaries for NOM
mating candidates must be held on
the second Monday preceding the
regular municipal election, Assistant
Attorney. General Il. W. Allen inform.
cd State Auditor Clausen in an opin.
ion.
Resignation of George G. Jewett as
managing director of the American
Wheat Growers association, was an
nounced at Spokane, effective Janu-
ary l. Mr.. Jewett has been elected
secretary of the Federal Land bank
in Spokane, succeeding A. B. Thom-
son. Mr.. Thomson has been named
treasurer in place Of George Dreher,
resigned.
An interlocutory injunction against
the state was granted the ]. A. Boyce
Seed company in federal district court
at Tacoma in an action brought to
test the seed importation act passed
by the last session of the state legis-
lature. The act objected to by the
seed concern sought to place license
fee on seeds brought into the state
and sold. The seed company AYERS
that the act is discriminatory.
The transportation bureau of the
Seattle chamber of commerce has put
the question of parity of Columbia
basin grain rates up to the railroads
with the request that the rates to Port
land and to Puget sound ports be i'm
mediatGiy equalized The interstate
commerce commissions rejection of
the appeal for rehearing Of the rate
case has been interpreted by the
chambers transportation bureau as
relieving the railroads from any obli
cation to maintain the existing DIFF
ferential.
Word that government approval had
been obtained for the states plan Of
clearing and opening the entire right
of way through the dense Olympic
forests, as the first step in closing
the 5O-mile gap in the Olympic high
way looping the great peninsula, has
been received from Governor Hart,
now in Washington, d. c., by Secre-
tary Fultz The approval and cooper
alton of Secretary Wallace of the de-
partment of agriculture, and use of
federal aid funds were the chief OBJ
jects of Governor Hart's trip to Wash
ington.
AT the request of the Kennewick
Commercial club, Charles R, Collins,
consulting gas engineer of Seattle,
is making survey to determine the
potential benefits, feasibility, cost Of
cpp Of ri, ion IN ointannnIn and onaro.
ton Of natural gas distribution sys-
tenn for domestic and industrial pur-
poses. The survey is in connection
with an offer recently made by Eu.
gene Enloe Of Spokane to pipe gas
from the Benton county wells, 80
miles distant, to Kennewick, subject
to delivery of a specified amount for
daily consumption.