Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-30

A community fair was held Sunday
at the Quinault Grange hat. six miles
north of Lake Quinault.
muskrat farm will be established
on Taylor slough, near Marietta, by
Fred s. Smith and Walter Scott.
Three passengers and the driver es.
capped unhurt when one Of the big auto.
mobile stages of the South Bend-Mc-
Gowan stage company suddenly took
fire while climbing the Bear river hill
on the Ocean Beach highway between
South Bend and 1lwaco.
Yakima is to be allowed $4,000 for
reclamation work during the fiscal
year 1924-1925, commencing next July
!, a reduction Of almost so per cent
from the allowance for the current
fiscal year, according to news receiv-
ed from Washington, D. G.
The Mackall-Paine Veneer company
of Vancouver has begun cutting five
carloads of pepper crates for a con-
Germ in the interior of Mexico, the first
order to be turned out by the plant
An order has been received for 50,-
100000 fruit baskets for California.
An initiative measure that will per-
nit municipalities of Washington to
acquire, own and operate telephone
systems will be put to vote of the
people in the general election next
year. The bill is now being drafted by
T. ]. L. Kennedy, corporation counsel
of Seattle.
A contract for building proposed
sewer system for Pacific Beach was
ordered let to Robert E. Skinner Of
Seattle for $11,237.5O by the Grays Har.
Dor county commissioners. The con
tract, calls for completion of the job
by the opening of the tourist season
June 1, 1924
Chinese pheasant hens and roosterS
to the number of 344 have been liber-
ated in Whatcom county during the
klast two weeks by Game Warden John
NJ. Aitken and his deputies. All but
forty-eight of them came from the state
game farm at Walla Walla The forty
eight came from an Oregon farm.
Characterized by organization Of
ficials as being highly successful, the
Pacific northwest potato conference
ended at Spokane after four-day SEES
sion. Exhibitors from all parts of
Washington, Idaho and Oregon and
Montana placed in the various COM
petitive awards offered on class B or
commercial potatoes.
Increase of freight rates on fruits
and vegetables from Yakima valley
points to Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham,
Chehalis and other points in that term
nal district, amounting to - to IA per
cent, is provided in new tariff to be
effective December &c, filed by the
Northern Pacific railway with the de.
partment of public works.
Federal Judge J. Neterer settled
patent rights said to represent
millions of dollars in smelter machin.
cry investments in the United States
and abroad in decision handed down
at Seattle in favor of the American
Smelter and Refining company in
suit filed by George C, Carson. Car.
son sued for alleged infringement OF
patents he had obtained on a metal
urgical furnace and for construction
of roofs for open hearth reverberatory
furnaces.
Construction of publicly.owned in.
tercoastal terminal, with two large
piers and warehouse of large cap.
acity between them has been planned
for the Skinner Eddy wartime ship.
yard site at Seattle, which was pur.
chased for 100000 by the port of Sc.
attic from the United States shipping
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nals will be the center of new in.
dustrial district in the southern part
of the city If present plans of the port
are adopted.
One of the largest and least utilized
runs of dog" salmon in the CONNER
cial history of Willapa Harbor marked
the fall fishing season which closed
last week. Calico salmon, with many
;ilversides, have almost choked nearly
all of the rivers flowing into the har.
Dor. Only one cannery, that of Wei.
gradt Bros, at Nahcotta, was ready to
take care of the run, and in conse-
quence very few Of the fish that sought
Willapa Harbor this season will find
their way to market