Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-09
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

The county commissioners ana Prose-
cutting Attorney Hall of Clarke county
went to Olympia last week to act as
unofficial Representatives of the coun-
ty in the consideration of the inter
state bridge bills before the state SEN
ate.
The Gooding bill, fixing price for
wheat, was indorsed by unanimous
vote of the Davenport Commercial club
and messages asking congressman from
this state to support the measure were
wired to Washington, D. c., by the
club.
More building was started in Everett
in February than in any other month
In its history, according to figures
submitted to the city council by Build
ing Inspector Butts. The report esti.
mated cost of ali buildings started at
s924,77O.
after lapse Of six months since she
accepted Cecil Lenighen, aged 81, as
her long lost son, Cecil Britain, Mrs.
r. L. Britain of Soap Lake has decided
that he is not her son and has written
a letter to Spokane paper repudiat-
ing the boy.
Western headquarters of the Thomp-
son Yards, Inc, operating large
chain of lumber yards throughout the
middle west and controlled by the
Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, will
be established in Tacoma, according to
announcement.
With S253,S19O5 in motor vehicle
license fees received by the state
treasurer during February, the total
fees for 1928 licenses received up to
the close of business February IS was
$2,534,46O, which is far ahead of the
1922 record on the same date.
DR.. Linus H French, physician and
DR.. R. E. McKibbon, proprietor of
sanitarium at Seattle for the cure
Of drug addicts, were indicted by the
federal grand jury on narcotic charges
that, if sustained, may send both
doctors to Mcneil Island penitentiary.
Bids will be received until June
on a stand of $4,000, 600 feet of tim
ber in what is known as the Mount
logging unit in Quinault Reservation,
according to W. 3. Sans, superintend.
ent of the reservation. It is the fifth
large tract offered for sale in the last
year.
Purchase by the Lytle-Inch Logging
company of Portland OF the entire log
ging equipment of the West Fork Log
ging companys camp on the east fork
of the Tilton river, near Lindberg, in
Lewis county, was announced at Ia
coma by Walter Inch, general mana
ger of the Portland concern.
Decision to form a permanent organ
ization was reached at conference
in Seattle of berry growers of Wash
ington, Oregon and British Columbia.
The new body, to be known as the
North Pacific Cooperative Berry Grow
ers, will be formed to exploit the grow.
ing and marketing Of berries in the
three districts.
Hundreds of persons gathered on
the Pacific county ocean beaches in
anticipation of the opening of the
commercial clam season, March l, and
number of canneries on Willapa mar
Dor are now operating. Razor clans
are used for canning and these are
found only in the big, sandy ocean
beaches. The season lasts three
months.
Julian Eltinge, noted female imper-
sonator and four other vaudeville per-
formers, arrested for alleged illegal
transportation of liquor from Van
couver, B. c., to Seattle, were exon
Grated by federal grand jury at Sc
attic. The actors were taken in charge
as they stepped from a Vancouver
boat by customs officers, who claim.
ed to have found liquor in their pos
session.
The contract for the first unit Of
the big paper and sulphite plant which
is to be built at Vancouver by the
Columbia River Paper Mills company
is to be let within the next few days,
following the return of F. w, Lead
better, president Of the company, from
the east, where he ordered machinery
for the paper mill and dgesters for
the sulphite plant The first Unit VIII
be a sawmill cutting 100000 feet Of
lumber every eight hours.