Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-29
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Production Of the 1872 mills report.
ing to the West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending June
1s was 25 per cent above normal.
Nav business was IS per cent below
production and shipments were % per
cent above new business.
While there is assurance Of more
adequate car supply and more eduit-
able distribution of rolling stock this
year than last, the most serious prob
lem facing the car service section of
the American Railway association is
the bumper crop expected which will
probably place a greater demand OH
railroads than ever before, accord.
Ing to f. V. Kuykendall, director of
public works.
The teaching of German will be re-
stored in high schools of the state
only where an authorized petition from
the district board is presented to the
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion recommending it, according to a
resolution adopted by the state board
of education at it's annual meeting
in Olympia.
The annual report for 1922 of the
Spokane Valley G Northern railway,
said to be one of the smallest roads
in the state, was filed with the de-
partment of public works. The road
runs from Valley to the Magnesite
quarries and is six miles in length.
The operation of the road for the
year shows loss of $1,000.
A band of sheep numbering 25OO,
driven over the Major Greek canyon
road in Klickitat county from Lyle, en-
route to Stevenson via Burdoin noun
tain, played havoc with the road from
the bridge to the summit of the htl,
presumably on account of being fore
ed up the steep hillside by passing
autos and teams and rolling rocks
and debris onto the road.
tuberculosis in cattle in this state
will run less than per cent in the
number tested during this biennium
ending January, 1925, it is estimated
by DR.. L. C. Pelton supervisor of ami
nal industry At the end of the last
biennium in January of this year, the
proportion OF reactors was 2.42 per
cent as compared with 3.46 per cent
in the hiennium 1919 to 1921.
Proposals that the Washington state
department of public works seek be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion reopening of the Columbia river
grain rate case with view to equal
izing rates from south of the Snake
river to Portland and Seattle were
discussed at a meeting in Seattle OF
officials of the department with grain
merchants and millers of Puget sound.
Prospective brides of Is years of
age, who were faced with he necessity
of bringing parents along If they eX-
pected to get marriage License, may
now breathe easily, for Attorney-Gen-
eral Dunbar has ruled that the new
age maturity law for women OF the
state does not apply to brides. The
law is merely aimed at property hold
ers, the attorney-general declared in
an opinion.
Expenditure of 100000 of federal
funds for the construction of 16 miles
of highway In Washington state was
authorized by the department of agri-
culture. OF this amount $4,000 is al
lotted for construction of the Baker
river road in Washington national
forest, A total OF $4,000 is for work
on the middle fork Snoqualmie high
way, while $4,000 will be used on the
Mount Baker road in Washington ma
tional forest
A conference looldng toward ad.
iustment Of the situation arising from
shipment of alfalfa hay through Wash
ington from sections Of Idaho under
quarantine on account of the presence
OF alfalfa weevil was held In Olympia
Monday. The conference was attend
ed by Washington agricultural Of
ficials, Mark A. Means, commissioner
of agriculture for Idaho, and repre-
sentatives OF railroads shipping hay
from quarantined districts, The situa.
tion was brought to head by the
seizure and burning of two cars of
alfalfa from Idaho in Spokane last
April.