Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-01-12
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Vancouver's loss by fire last year
| was $S5,145.
Ralph e. Summers has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Chambers
Prairie, Thurston county.
The annual state convention of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held
in Aberdeen next spring.
Additions to double the capacity of
their plant will be made at once by the
Everett Fruit Products company.
According to figures compiled there
were still on hand in the Wenatchee
district January /, 5,243 cars of apples.
Deposits in Hoquiam banks and saw
ings and loan associations increased
s702,5O0 over the preceding twelve
months.
Deposits in Tacoma hanks showed
an increase of nearly s1,500000 in
the past S1s months, according to fig
ures given out by the Tacoma Clear
ing House association in response to
the call of the controller OF the cur
rency. The call was made for Decem-
ber 80 and the deposits on that day
totaled $SG,7S5,7726s.
Petitions are being circulated among
farmers of Walla Walla county which
will be sent to the legislature urging
that the ban on killing beavers be re-
moved. Farmers say that these ami
mails are damaging fruit and other
trees and that they are helpless in
handling them. More than 200 sigma
lures have been obtained.
The Seattle port commission, which
made complaint that in compiling stat
istics of cargoes, the shipping board
was injuring Puget sound in the show
ing by crediting all shipments to ports
of first entry and final clearance, has
received notification from A. D. Lask-
er, chairman of the board, that the
system would be changed.
Eleven charges against Ole Larson,
formerly president of the defunct
Scandinavian-Americ bank of Ia
coma will be dropped the day Larson
starts to the state penitentiary to
serve the, three to five years. term
sustained by the state supreme court
last week, according to announcement
Of Prosecutor ]. w. Seldom.
Governor Louis F. Hart, who vetoed
the Beeler anti-narcotic bill passed
by the 1921 Washington legislature,
will approve the revised measure re-
Gently prepared by the legislative COM
mittee of the state prosecuting at.
torneys' association, Deputy Prosecu.
tor Chester A. Bachelor of King
county announced after conference
with the governor.
A complete new automobile and
road code for the state is among the
recommendations to be submitted to
the legislature by the Auto Club OF
Washington, following two-day meet
ing of the legislative committee at TIA.
coma. The road code would provide
| for state aid to the counties similar
to the aid given by the federal gov
ernment to the states.
An appeal to the president to ap'
point Senator Miles Poindexter sec.
retary of the interior to succeed See.
! retary Fall was carried to the White
House by delegation headed by
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers union, which also
included Senators Stanfield of Oregon
md Oddie of Nevada and j. H. Tay'
lor, formerly Of Spokane.
Uniform regulations governing the
construction Of all line extensions by
privately owned electric utilities in
/ this state have been promulgated by
the state department of public works
in the form of an order. Under the
new policy the company will be re
quired to furnish for each customer on
a proposed line extension specified
equipment worth $35 or the cash
equivalent.
Secretary Of State ]. Grant Hinkle
is swamped with letters of oil kinds
from the people of the state as a re
suit OF QUESTIONABLE sent out by his
office some weeks ago. The purpose
of the letter was to wake up interest
of the people of the state in the var
ious governmental functions and en-
courage them to make use of the
same. Many answered the question
naire in detail; others wrote asking
for the books or pamphlets mentioned