Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-31
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Tax foreclosure suit No. 20 for de.
linquent taxes for the years 1914, 1915,
1915 and 1917 on property within coun.
ty confines, has been filed with the
Grays Harbor county clerk. The fore
closure list takes more than $500 diff
terent parcels of real estate with total
taxes due on them for the four years
Concerned Of considerably more than
$4,000.
The Clarke county automobile park
Is one of the best, If not the best, In
Oregon and Washington, representa-.
tive Of the National Fairgrounds as.
sociation told Walter Schwarz, county
engineer The parks throughout the
three states of the Pacific northwest
are being visited by representatives Of
the association which is gathering data
on them.
A number of Seattle business men
were called into conferences held by
Henry A. Cutler, assistant to Attorney.
General Daugherty, in charge of prose-
cutions of restraint of trade combn.
ations In the west. Cutler disclosed
that allegations that Seattle plumbers
and printers had combined to fix
prices we're the particular objects of
his inquiries.
An increase in port Of Vancouver ex-
penditures from s18,500 in 1922 to
$88,99 in 1924 is indicated by the bud
get filed with the Clarke county audi
tor. The port proposes to dredge the
Columbia river channel from the
mouth of the Willamette to the inter-
state bridge to depth of 25 feet at
low water, and will contribute $4,000
toward this next year. The federal
government is expected to aid in the
project.
A three-day program, speakers on
which included specialists in every
field of endeavor In the state was held
at Ellensburg when the first session
Of the state unity conference, in con-
neotion with the 37th annual conven-
tion of the Washington State Press
association opened in the auditorium
of the normal school. More than 300
delegates were in attendance.
Increased business in the lumber In
dustry, with production of the mills
considerably above the normal mark,
is shown In the weekly review of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
for the week ending August 18. The
report shows that the 1913 reporting
mills manufactured during the week
total of 105,962,0S1 feet of lumber,
sold so,458,2S1 feet and shipped 93,-
S08, 100 feet.
With the cooperation Of the school
board of Tacoma the Public Health
League Of Washington will begin
fight against goiter during the COM
ing school year, according to DR.. H.
j. Whitacrs, president of the league.
The disease which now affects be-
tween 20 and 60 per cent of the school
children In this state, will be combated,
with the consent of the parents of
each child, by a small dose of iodine
coated with chocolate given once
week.
After two trials in the superior court
and several hearings before the su.
preme court and after they had been
convicted of most sensational rob-
berry and had been sentenced to serve
z to Is years in the penitertiary, Roy
Moore and Bert Orcutt were released
at Vancouver. Although their case
was not dismissed, 1t is not likely to
be revived, It was said. The two men
were released on their own recog-
nizauoe and Immediately left the city.
Moore and Orcutt were convicted Of
holding up and robbing the sells-Floto
circus in September, 1921, Of nearly
sat, 900.
The state of Washington and Ia.
coma school district No. 19 probably
will file a petition soon for a rehear
ing by the state supreme court OF
Tacoma school bond case, the recent
decision of which defeated the s2,-
100000 Issue of Tacoma and nullified
40 or 80 other municipal and school
bond elections throughout the state.
In making rigid Interpretation Of
the new bond law. In case the re-
hearing Is granted the state will In
troduce arguments relative to the
other bond issues In the state to de.
termine whether they can be validated
under the new law.