Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-26
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Clarke county will ship ten million
pounds of prunes this year, according
to an estimate prepared by the man
ager of the Washington Packers cor
poration. The packers will ship seven
million pounds of the total
Charles White and B. d. Wander
veer returned to Sedro.Woolley from
Alaska with several thousand dollars
In gold from their mine on Fourth of
July creek. The men have been there
| for the past six months and are well
pleased with the success of their work
this year.
Isaac Hamburger aged co. secretary
| to e. E. Cushman of Tacoma, federal
Judge, was shot in the abdomen and
Mrs. Violet Davis of Seattle was shot
in the back when Patrolman Short
pulled out his revolver and attempted
to halt an alleged shoplifter on West
lake avenue between Pine and Olive
| streets, Seattle.
! Six additional highway contracts are
| to be awarded in November, all of
them for grading and surfacing. They
are Anatone to Asotin, four miles;
| Anacortes east, three miles; Jared to
Blue Slide in Pend Oreille county, SIS
miles; Odessa to Grant county line,
| 1872 miles; Wallula to Burbank, Walla
Walla county, Ill miles; and tim
| Der bridge over the Chinook river on
the Ocean Beach highway
| Assessed valuations of lands includ-
ed in the proposed high line projects,
one Of WATCH a special commission of
| United States reclamation engineers
| will astaasaend Cor immediate con-
struction. are the basis on which the
commission will determine whether or
not owners Of the lands to be irrigated
are trying to profiteer through the
improvement. ',it is absolutely essen
tial that speculation be eliminated
and we will assure ourselves that that
has been done before any unit is rec
commended" Commissioner d. G. Hen
| ny of the commission said while in
Yakima.
Goose lake, noted for the abundance
of large trout 1t contains and the beau
tiful scenery surrounding it in the
Columbia national forest reserve,
Skamania county, almost became a
dry lava bed recently by disappear
ance of the water through cracks and
holes in the bottom that have ap-
peared lately. When the lake became
pond and thousands of fish were
about to perish, an investigation show
ed the water rushing through holes in
the bottom. Game wardens and forest
rangers packed sacks of dirt and stop
ped the leaks.
Figures compiled from the official
call statements of the 266 state banks
and six trust companies for Septem-
Der IA disclose an increase in total
deposits of s12,671,547 oyer deposits
of year ago, according to ]. c. Min
shull, assistant state supervisor of
banking. Total deposits on this call
were $142,3S5,209.. The bulk of the
increase in deposits can be accounted
for, Minshull said, by the increase of
$10,596,000 in savings accounts. This
tirely in addition to the business of
national banks.
An appeal to farmers of eastern
Washington to hold their wheat for a
higher price was made in a statement
issued by e. L. French, state director
of agriculture. In the opinion Of the
director, wheat should be quoted %
cents higher on the bushel than the
present market. 1--WE have consistent
ly maintained that there is no over
production of wheat in this country
and that the present low price is due
10 lnslStent pear propaganda about
over production" he said. The director
declared that the average domestic
consumption Of wheat is 600,OOOOOO
bushels and that the country will not
have more than 12O,000,OOO bushels
for export this year, as great deal
of wheat is being fed to stock on &C.
count of better prices for corn. "The
Pacific northwest is growing the best
milling wheat in the country and will
have a 6O,OO0,OOO bushel crop this year
in comparison with 100000 bushels
last year." said the director. "On the
other hand there is great under pro-
duction throughout the rest OF the
country"