Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-21
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief NEWS items
Principal Events of the Week
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A''iN hiili luuu bui AiNiBt'NN
in the opening Of the Ferry county
fair at Republic.
The amount needed by the Monte
sano city government for the coming
year will be $2O,420.
The big new sawmill at Salkum be-
ing built by the Chehalis Mill COM
pany Is nearing completion.
The Elk Single company mill was
burned to the ground at South Bend
with loss of about $4,000.
Elks of Bellingham were hosts to
several thousand boys of the city and
county at Battersby Field.
Seattle's "booze boat" the speed
craft used by the police for pursuit
Of rum-runners, is lost, strayed OF
stolen. With no watchman to pro
tect her, she was spirited away from
her accustomed moorings and has
not been found.
Over 100000 trout have been plant
ed in the streams of Grays harbor
county, according to statement by
Game Warden Jack Winslow. The dis
tribution covers nearly every stream
in the county. The varieties are rain
bow and steelhead.
Federal reforestation of cutover
lands, through a system of exchange
of logged-off lands for new timbered
areas between the operators and the
government was advocated by A. w.
Laird of Potlatch, Idaho, before a COM
mittee of United States senators at a
hearing in Spokane
The supreme court denied petitions
submitted by the city of Tacoma and
the state for rehearing of the Tacoma
school bond election case, in which a
100000 bond issue was invalidated.
The opinion of the court also knock
ed out score of other bond issues
throughout the state.
Representatives from different sec
lions of Oregon, and from eastern
Washington counties, met with Sam
Gel Hill at Maryhill, where the every
day highway" organization was per-
iected, and Mr.. Hill elected president.
Complaint Of dairymen who are sell
Ing raw milk in Seattle that they are
harassed and prosecuted by the city
health department was temporarily
sustained in tbs superior court here
when Judge Ev@rs7t Smith overruled
demurrer filee ~s behalf of the city
and ordered that the case be tried on
It's merits.
The county game commission has no
authority or power to close the season
IN part of county; nor can game
preserve less than the entire county
Be created with the consent of the own
srs of the private land involved, so
an opinion by Attorney General Dun
bar to the King county game commits
zion says.
An organized gang of rum-runners,
with their own steamers and high
power motorcars, makes a regular
practice of paying salaries to its lieu
tenants who get into Jail, and makes
such profits that fines are Intellectual,
were statements made by Police Judge
Smith before teachers of Grays Har-
Dor county.
How they overpowered armed Rus
sian guards who had been stationed on
their vessel after it had been seized at
Anadyr, Siberia, and then sailed out
Of the harbor at night in the teeth Of
a gale to escape to American waters
was related by members of the crew OF
the trading schooner Iskum, which ar
rived in Seattle from Nome, Alaska.
Reused at $3.50 o'clock in the morn.
Ing by the changing of the school bell,
bucket brigade of fifty men, com.
prising virtually the entire male pop.
ulation, saved the little town of Cum
berland, eight miles northeast of
Enumclaw, from total destruction by
fire. The principal business center of
the village was burned, the loss being
placed at $4,000
Persons who wish to do any build.
ing in Bellingham and wish to obtain
building permit must first obtain
clearance and pay industrial insurance
fees at the local office of the depart.
meat of labor and industries, accord
ing to an agreement reached between
Ben f, Hammond, director in charge,
and City Comptroller Charles A. Nc
Lehman, The neglect of good many
persons TO pay the state fees led to
this action.
The commission merchants license
law is discriminatory, uneonstitution'
al aud void, Judge Wilson, of the
Thmston county superior court, de-.
olared in the test case brought by
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