Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-16
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

4 scholarship to be known as tine
1928 alumni scholarship" is to be es-
tablished at the State college of Wash
ington at Pullman. The scholarship
was started by the alumni and the
class of 1928 graduating in June made
1t possible by giving as its memorial
$3.50.
Production of the 1873 mills report
ing to the West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending March
was II per cent above normal, ac-
cording to report. New business was
Z per cent below production and ship
ments IA per cent above new business.
In the first eight weeks of the year
production of West Coast Lumber,
mems association mills has been 770,-
976,343 feet; new business, 97S,22S,-
296 feet; and shipments, 930,467,24S
feet.
Recommep dation that a meeting OF
the Washingt Wheat Growers asso-
citation be called for consideration of
a proposal to disincorporate was made
to the associations trustees at a meet
ing ii Spokane Monday by Walter ].
Robinson, general manager.
| Although no definite information
/ has been received, it is the understand
ing of the veterans bureau that tht
proposal to transfer the Liberty hotel
at Vancouver to the government to be
used as vocational training school
for disabled veterans has been with
drawn.
Barring of pheasant hen shooting
for one year, daily bag limit of eight
birds and a uniform bird hunting sea.
son for the state, from November 1
to Is were approved by Whatcom
county spGrtsmen, in a meeting at
Bellingham, and were recommended to
the state meeting of game commits
sioners in Tacoma.
Pacific county residents are pleased
over the certainty of an expenditure
of 100000 on the ocean beach high
way during the next biennium. The
state highway appropriations bill
would allow $49O,OOO for new work on
this loop and there has already been
re-appropriated 1851, ,64O of unexpend-
ed funds for work already under way.
AT a meeting of the Columbia River
Dam and Power association, held at
Ephrata, resolutions were passed con-
demning the appointment of General
G. w. Goethals; f. w. Goodwin, assist
ant secretary of the interior, and Mar
win Chase, state hydraulic engineer,
as members of the federal investiga-
ton committee of the Columbia river
project.
| Reading of telechronometers Install
ed in Everett year ago for the pur-
| pose of applying meter service to the
use Of telephones has been suspend
ed by order of the state board of pub
lie works. A fight was made against
the use of the telechronometer by
some of those whose rates were in
creased under the pay for what you
use' plan.
Two years at Mcneil Island peniten.
tiary was the sentence given by Fed.
eral Judge Edward r. Cushman to
James P. Hogan, former customs Of.
ficer at Hoquiam, and William Thomp.
son, former chief of police of that city,
when they pleaded guilty to a charge
of conspiring to violate the immigra-
tion laws by smuggling nine Japa.
nese into the country.
Washington state banks have put
their Losses behind them by courage.
ously charging them off and prospects
for the stockholders making a more
reasonable return on their investment
in the future are brighter than at any
time since 1920" says j. p. Duke,
state supervisor of banking, In an
analysis Of banking conditions for 1922,
which he has just completed.
Anna Nosko, 11.yearold schoolgirl,
who resided with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul NoslSo, on q farm about one
mile northeast of Battle Ground in
Clarke county, was attacked while re-
turning home from school and then
murdered by her assailant Edward
Whitfield, 20 years old, nephew of
Joseph Tuke, farmer of the Battle
Ground district is held in the Clarke
county Jail suspected of being the as
sai!ant and murderer of the girl.