Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-21

Regulations Of the state fisheries
board adopted two years ago to give
pink salmon a chance to reach their
spawning grounds were justified in
this years tremendous rul of humpies.
Though smaller number of Gamer
les were operating, It is expected the
pack this year will show an increase.
Production Of Is per cent above nor
nal was recorded during the past
week by the mills reporting to the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
These 129 mills, for the seven days
ending September s, manufactured
1O1 ,0S6,3i3 feet of lumber; sold o.
137609 feet, and shipped S7,547275
feet.
Forest fires in Washington are be-
ing fought with high pressure water
pump, instead Of with tue shovel, as
in days gone by, according to ]. Nc
MILAN, warden for Skagit and What
com counties. Fifteen Of these new
pumps have been distributed through
out the state ana are ready for in
slant use where available.
An active fight on the cooperative
scheme offered Clarke county prune
growers by the California Packing cor.
poration has been started by the
Washington Growers Packing corpor-
alton, the sales organ of the Clarke
Prune Growers association. About
SIS per cent of the prune growers are
members of the association.
Thomas N. Hoover, a. of Conrad,
Mont, private, first class, stationed
at Fort George Wright, Spokane, was
killed on the Sunset highway "a miles
east Of Ellensburg, when an army
truck in which he and group of other
soldiers were returning from Camp
Lewis to Fort Wright was overturned
and rolled down an embankment.
The voters Of the Seattle port dis
trict having refused to sanction bond
issue for the purchase of the water
front tract owned by the United States
shipping board, the port commission
ers cannot increase the district in.
debtedness by using other money to
make the purchase, according to
decision Of the state supreme court.
Lee Johnston of the Seattle bar,
indicted in Buhl, Idaho, on charge
Of receiving from Edward Hicks,
client, money that he knew had been
stolen from the mails, has won fight
against removal for trial. Judge
jeremiah Neterer in federal court at
Seattle decided, in habeas corpus pro.
ceedings, that the indictment was de.
fective.
The earthquake in Japan and its
resultant effect on business has great.
ly unsettled shipping at Tacoma,
especially in the lumber business.
Shippers are considerably at sea as
to Just when freight will start moving
and resume its normal movements.
At present, on one pier alone, there
are more than 100000 feet of lum.
Der awaiting shipment.
The Wenatchee Commercial club
and the United States labor office of
al
greatest apple harvest in the history
of the Wenatchee and Okanogan val.
leys will commence about October |,
at which time there will be employ.
ment for several thousand men and
women in the orchards and ware.I
houses of the district.
Administration Of iodine chocolate
tablets once week for the 46 weeks
of school to every pupil in Spokane
between and 16 as part of prevent.
i've campaign in heading off the goitcr
menace was urged upon the Spokane
County Medical society by Robert
Jones, executive secretary of the pub.
lie health league. 1t would cost SO
cents per child per annum.
total of GOS4 men are employed
in lumber camps and mills of Lewis
county, according to figures compiled
by Victor II. Beckman Seattle lum.
herman, who estimates that approx.
mately 10000 residents of the county
are directly dependent upon the indus.
try out of census total of 36,740.
There are 90 mills and camps in the
county, Mr. Beclman's statement
shows, the daily capacity of which is
100000 feet of lumber, 2,255, 900
shingles and 3.S49,OOO feet of logs.
The country's annual lumber payroll
is sS.299oOO.