Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-23
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Charges in disbarment proceeding
against David R. Mitchell, attorney OF
Seattle, have been filed by R. G..
Sharpe, assistant Encouragement,
with the clerk of the supreme court,
and hearing before the state board of
bar examiners has been set for Janu-
airy &c in Seattle.
OF 26S loans, aggregating S64,03G.45
made to farmers in the dry belt to buy
seed wheat last spring, lis contracts
have been paid, the state receiving
back S26,S96.6S, of which $S45.96 was
interest on the loans. 1t is expected
other payments will be made before
the end of the year.
Thomas Walton must die on the
scaffold for Staying two fellow con.
victs at the state penitentiary. A jury
at Walla Walla which heard evidence
against him in support of the state s
charge of first degree murder return
ed verdict of guilty and recommend.
ed the death penalty.
Feeding and Management of Dairy
Calves" is the newest bulletin just
off the press Of the state college o!
Washington agricultural experiment
station. Professor E. V. Ellington
head of the division of dairy hus
bandry, and ]. C. Knott, college herds
man, are the authors.
In dispatching 10 vessels during
October, with total of 1S,62S,S29 feet
of lumber and laths and 3,247,50C
shingles, Willapa harbor attained g
new record in water traffic for a
single month, which is shown in q
statement issued by the Willapa har
Dor traffic association.
Accepting the honorary chairman
ship of the Harding Memorial associa
ton for the state of Washington, at
the request of President Coolidge, Gov
ernor L. F. Hart has appointed Louis
H. Burnett of Tacoma, as active chair.
man of the committee which will
handle the drive in the state
Although carrying 43 per cent more
passengers day now than before the
weekly pass system went into effect
the Tacoma Railway G. Power com
pany will be forced to raise the fare
unless still greater number ride the
street cars in the near future, &C
cording to C.. V. Allen, advertising
manager for the company.
Work will be begun soon on con
struction of six miles of the Pend
Oreille highway between Jared ano
Blueslide. Clearing OF Is acres will
be started soon and as much grading
will be done this fall as weather viii
permit. Rock work will continue
through the winter. The cost of this
road will be about S105,000.
An order for 10O,000,O00 feet of lum
Der to be shipped during the mex
few months from Pacific coast ports
was placed with the Douglas Fir Elk
ploitation & Export company by the
Japanese ambassador at Washington
d. G. While exact figures We're moi
given out 1t is understood the dea
represents about S3,000,000.
,,,;1l Il,
seen before on the sheltered bays o.
Puget sound in 10 years are reported
to be feeding in the waters leading
up from the straits of Juan de Fuca
Thousands of acres of the sound are
covered so thickly with the quaclSinl
game birds that open water is not seer
in stretches of many miles.
Continued use of Lake Whatcom as
a city water reservoir, enlargement o
the intake main, construction OF new
main across the northern portion o.
the city, a new reservoir to supply The
high service areas, and installation o
meters to prevent water waste, ar,
high points in an exhaustive report OF
the water situation in Bellingham. sub
mitted by City Engineer Adams to thu
water board.
The state has gone as far as 1t cal
go in reducing the cost of industrial
insurance until there has been re
duction in hazards. according to Ed
win Clifford, director of the depart
ment of labor and industry, at n hear
ing on standards of safety affecting
the logging industry, held in Belling
ham. Mr.. Clifford said that his de
partment had been able TO save nearl,
S1,000,0O0 to industry in the last two
years through its operation, despit,
the increase In the number of men EN-
ployed in the state.