Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-07

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suIa Mt meeting held in Olympia,
will be brought about ut once.
Reclamation projects in Washing.
ton will be thoroughly discussed at
the twelfth annual convention of the |
Washington Irrigation institute, to be
held in Yakima November 20, 81 and
%, according to announcement,
The body of an unidentified man,
with the head blown off, evidently by
stick of dynamite, was found on the
Ole Johnson ranch near Bryant some |
20 miles north of Everett 1t was said
to be probably case OF suicide.
W, f. Ramsdell, district forest in.
spector, with headquarters at Port.
land, spent week in the field with |
/ Supervisor L. B. Pagter Of the Col
vile national forest inspecting tim.
Der sale areas and formulating a sales
plan for the forest.
The historic apple tree standing on
the military reservation at Vancouver
has been nominated for place in the
hall OF fame for historic trees, 1t is
IS years old and still bears few
apples every year a protecting fence
has been placed around it.
Edmund Ketterer, age 50, Buena
rancher, owner of large tract Of
valuable timber near Bellingham, has
been missing since September, 1928
according TO his daughter Eliza Ket-
terer, who has asked the Yakima
sheriff and police to look for him.
Because only two football games
have been played in the rain since the
stadium was dedicated four years ago
rain insurance previously carried for
the big events by the associated stu
dents of the University OF Washington
has been Cancelled for future contests.
Fifteen thousand sheep have been
dipped for scab at Ellensburg and 49,
600 to 10000 more are to be treated
there Federal and state inspectors
will also supervise the dipping of 49,
GOO sheep at the Raglan ranch at Union
Gap where a tank has been built for
the purpose.
The convention of the seventh dis
triot OF the American legion was held
AT La Crosse with So delegates pres
ent, representing posts AT Garfield,
Waitsbmg, Colfax. Ritzville, Palouse,
oakesdale, Cotton, Walla Walla, Pom.
eroy, Dayton, Pullman, La Crosse,
Asotin and Washtucna.
Motorists in this state used almost
a million more gallons of gasoline dur
ing September, 1924 than they did dur
ing September 1928, according to
figures Just compiled by the license
department. Gasoline sales recorded
for September 1924, were 1S,s42,S1S
gallons, and the state realized a tax
of S276,S5626 on such sales.
Ten thousand Yakima Delicious ap-
pies have been purchased by the ad-
vertising department of the Northern
| Pacific railway from the Yakima
| County Horticultural union, to be used
| throughout the east as an advertise
ment for the Yakima valley, Last year
the department mailed Yakima apples
in cartons to all members of the U.
! S. senate and house of representatives. !
Endorsement previously voted to
! John w Summers, republican, repre- /
sentative in congress from the fourth |
district, was withdrawn at Seattle by !
the executive committee of the Wash
4 ington conference for progressive poll |
teal action, representatives of Sena-
tor La Toilette, independent presiden- |
tial candidate. Knute Hill, farmer !
labor candidate, was Endorsed instead |
A protest against granting permit
to the Northwestern Electric company,
a Portland concern, for water appro-
priation on the north fork of the
Lewis river to supply proposed s4.- |
| 100000 hydro-electric plant was filed
with the state supervisor of hydraulics
by George G, Funk of Olympia. In
his protest Mr.. Funk declared he own
ed timber lands on the Lewis river
which would be inaccessible if dam,
necessary to ompound the water for
the projected plant, was constructed.
Application for water rights involv-
ed in the development of a 12OOO-acre
reservoir in Cowlitz county to be used
as a storage basin to supply a large
hydro-electric plant, was filed with |
. Marvin Chase, supervisor of hydraul-
les by ]. G. Gruver, for the port of
Kalama, The reservoir would be
known as the Merrill lake reservoir
and the application is one of a mum
Der OF tentative applications placed on
I file by the port of Kalama looking
forward to the construction OF hydro
electric plant to cost in the neighbor