Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-13

Complaints that the cost Of living
is going up in Seattle are unfound-
ed, according to the government
bureau of labor statistics in Washing
ton, D. c.. The bureau gave out a
had decreased in Seattle / per cent
in the month from February IL to
March Is.
To war on rum runners between
Canadian and Puget Sound waters, a
thirty-five-foot motorboat with speed
of eighteen knots is due to arrive at
Seattle within month, it was an
nounced by Collector of Customs Mil
J lard T. Harrison on his return from
| Washington, D. c., after an absence
OF six weeks.
Mariners report that the annual mi
grafton of seals is on along the west
coast to the Bering sea. Native In.
/ ui'iS oA thC NdsuiuSlOH Quasi, WHu
are permitted to hunt the seals with
| spears, are reported going out in their
canoes and making fair catches. The
migration is protected from poachers
| by government craft.
Two delegates to the National Lib
rary association convention which will
| be held as a part of American Library
association sessions at Hot Springs,
Ark, April 23 to 2S inclusive, have
been appointed by Governor Louis F.
Hart. To the National Association of
State Librarians, j. M. Hit, state
librarian was named, and w. j, Mil
/ lard, state law librarian, 10 the Asso-
/ citation for State Librarians.
An off-shoot of the old witness tree
at Vancouver was planted on the lawn
of the Clarke county courthouse by
county officials. The shoot was pre-
served from the old tree when the tree
fell into the Columbia in 1909 during
the period of high water. The old cot.
tonwood was the starting point for all
| the early government surveys and the
township lines throughout Oregon and
Washington are numbered with refer
ence to the site of the tree. The tree
was first used in government survey
in 1860
Underwood has developed into one
of the heaviest apple-shipping points in
the mid-Coumbia on the Washington
side of the river in the last two years.
Warehouse development there vas rap
i'd, following completion of huge. un.
dertaking of the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle railroad in removing a vast
quantity of rock and earth from side
of the Columbia canyon and making
available sites. Three large ware
houses, with a combined storage capa-
city of 10000 boxes, have been con
structed by the Underwood Fruit ,and
Warehouse association, the Mount
Adams Orchard company and Dan
Wuille & Co.
Election of officers and a decision to
continue its efforts toward uniform
teachers certificates in the four Pa
cific northwestern states marked the
closing days sessions of the 25th an
nual inland empire teachers conyen-
tion at Spokane. ]. NJ Hamilton of
Bozeman, Mont, for "a years promin-
ent in educational affairs of the west
was elected president, and ]. A. Burke
of Spokane was chosen to serve his
tenth term as secretary. W. G. Hum
nell, state director of vocational edu.
cation of Washington, was elected vice
president and L. w. TurnbuIi of Tilla-
nook, Or, treasurer. C. D. Brock of
Wallace, Idaho, and Mrs. L. o. Ander-
son of Wenatchee were elected to the
board of trustees
Serving or intent to serve decom.
posed or contaminated food by an en-
ployer to employees, for considera-
tion, constitutes a sale or intent TO sell
under the meaning of the state stat.
utes, 1t was stated in a decision of the
state supreme court department No. 2,
handed down in the case of the state
of Washington against the Grays Har-
Dor Commercial company. The com.
pany operates sawmill plant and
boarding house for employees at Como
polls, Grays Harbor county. and was
convicted on jury trial in the superior
court of having possession, with intent
to serve as food to the employees, pu.
trld meat unfit for food.