Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-14
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
Of Our Readers.

NoAANfs
Elghty.five bushels of wheat to the
acre is the yield reported by L. ].
Pierce Of Mount Vernon,
The most acute house shortage in
Its history is faced by the city OF Bel.
bingham at present, according to real
estate men,
The big cannery at Vancouver of
the Oregon Packing company has re.
sumed operations after shutdown of
more than two weeks because of lack
Of fruit,
Merging OF the four freight termin-
ais of Seattle into one operating com
pany will be urged before the inter
state commerce commission in No
vember, W. S Nicholson, chief engi,
neer of the Port of Seattle, announces.
Franklin county is tied with Grant
county for first prize in the state
health crusade work of the last school
year The cup will be presented to
both counties, with the understanding
that each may keep it for six months
of the year.
An ample supply of refrigerator
cars to take care of perishable fruits
and vegetables this season seems as
sured, according to federal officials
in conference with Frank r. Spin.
ming, state supervisor of transporta.
ton.
The Scandinavian-American bank of
Seattle, which closed its doors June
80, 1921, is expected to pay out close
to the full amount OF its S10500,0OO
of deposits in the course of ultimate
liquidation through the state banking
department.
William Harrison Ward, civil war
veteran and pioneer resident of Sno-
homish died in that city last week.
Mr.. Ward was a member of the band
that accompanied Lincoln and Doug
las in their historic debating tour in
the campaign of 1858.
One hundred nine Rotary presidents
and secretaries from Rotary clubs in
Oregon, Washington and British Co
lumbia, comprising the first district
of Rotary met at Olympia in annual
session to plan for the Rotary pro-
gram for the coming year.
Bankers of Clarke county have
agreed to finance an advance of
cents a pound on all deliveries of 1928
prunes made to the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation plant at Van
couyer, which is operated by the as
sociation Of Clarke growers.
Ercel Thomson and Miss Vera Bur
lingame, both of Everett, were killed
and Lester Mears, also of Everett was
seriously injured when the automobile
in which they were riding skidded
and turned over on the Pacific high
way between Bethel and Kenmore.
Congressman Albert Johnson of Ho-
GUAM, chairman of the house immi-
grafton committee, urged before the
Seattle Young Mems republican club
that annual immigration be restricted
to 2 per cent of the number of the
immigrants countrymen already in
the United States.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS company,
Inc, Portland, Or, has received a con
tract from the department of the in
terror for constructing 1S0-foot steel
cable highway bridge across the Mis-
qually river in Mount Rainier national
park. The work is based on unit
prices, being estimated at $14,242.
Fire spreading from an old timber
dam on the Wishkah river, in Grays
Harbor county, being burned out by
county game warden to permit the
run of fish upstream, got into the old
works of the Coats-Fordney Logging
company requiring the sending of
considerable force of men to the
scene.
Plans for north-and-south highway
through central Washington, east of
the Cascades, to link up with Canadi-
an, Oregon and California roads now
in operation, were outlined at Spo-
kane by Samuel Hill, good roads ad-
vocate of Maryhin, at special meet
ing Of the trustees of the chamber of
commerce,
A 1OOOpound grizzly bear, one of
the most destructive stock,killing ami
mails in the state, was killed August
2G by State Hunter Peterson on Hol-
man creek in the Okanogan national
park, okanogan county, On his last
rampage in the Robinson creek dis.
trict, the grizzly killed 16 head OF
cattle and destroyed a number of
sheep.
According to figures made public
by Willard T. Harrison, collector of