Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-02
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

The Wilapa Lumber company Of
Raymond has closed a deal for the in.
stalation Of a 15OO-kilowatt turbine to
electrify its entire plant, The cost
will be between $4,000 and 100000.
A story wired to Sheriff Jackson Of
Pierce county concerning a man in
Spokane who confessed to perpotratine
the O'Hara horror near Olympia last
September proved to be a dud, as thu
prisoners finger prints show the mar
is not the one wanted,
The supreme court affirmed the
judgment of the lower court of John
Rodia versus the City of Seattle in
which he secured damages Of $500
for loss OF crops as a result Of the
breaking of water main and flood
ing his market garden.
Mrs. Catherine Noreen, an aged
woman of Tacoma, has filed suit for
$500 against her son. Henry o. Noreen,
claiming that he wrongfully committed
her to the Steilacoom asylum after
having fraudulently obtained posses,
sion of the family home.
Lumber shipments from Willapa har
Dor for the month of January We're
unusually heavy. Twelve steamers
carried lumber from Raymond and
South Bend. The shipments aggre.
gated 11,367,776 feet of lumber and
lath and 6,125,OOO shingles.
Friday was the first day on which
candidates could legally file for the an
nual Seattle primaries and election.
Three city councilmen and a corpora
ton counsel are to be elected this
spring. The primary election will be
held April "a, and the final election
follows May s.
Thousands of full grown razor clans
died as the result of being cast up
along the beach for mile and a
half north from Wreck creek, four
miles north of Moclips, in such num-
bers they were unable to dig them.
selves in," according to Robert Samp-
son of Taholah.
President Harding has signed the
bill which authorizes appropriation for
federal surveys OF the Columbia basin
and Umatilla rapids irrigation pro
jects The investigations will begin
without delay with the expectation
that the report will be ready for the
new congress soon after it convenes in
December.
Criticism Of "shell-pnk" information
alism alleged to pervade history texts
used in public schools marked the
annual session Of the Washington state
society of the Sons of the American
Revolution at Seattle. Eight history
textbooks now under criticism by edu
cational leaders will be investigated by
the society," it was announced
Work of raising the wreck of the
Welsh Prince from the Columbia river
near Altoona is progressing salts
factorily, according t0 NJ. BRrde, who
holds the contract for removing the
vessel. Dulkheads have been fitted
| in the after end, which is now being
steadily lifted by combined action OF
the tide and pumping operations.
A parade of floats, depicting hunt
ing and fishing scenes typical of the
Pacific northwest, opened the first an.
nual show of the Seattle Sportsmen's
association at Seattle. Exhibits of
game fish, wild birds and other animal
life featured an exposition in a down.
town auditorium where a reproduction
of virgin forest had been staged.
An attempt TO fix the origin and
blame of the forest fire which swept
through Cedar Falls last sumner was
begun in superior court in Seattle
when attorneys representing thirty
four clients, filed suit against the Pa
cific States Lumber company for $751;
4O111, the total amount of the in
divdual claims. The attorneys allege
that the defendant company is respon.
slble.
Prediction that 1929 will nrove n
rscord-breaking year for northwest
lumber interests featured the report
of Robert B, Allen, secretary of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association,
at its annual meeting at Seattle. Allen
based his forecast on figures showing
that production during the first nine
weeks of the year exceeded by 10 per
cent that of any similar period in the
history Of the organization.