Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-01-25
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
FOR THE BUSY READER
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

That the State college at Pullman
is without legal authority to purchase
land out of the 1923 appropriation Of
$4,000 granted "for experimental work
and Investigations of the cranberry
growing industry" is the opinion rend
cred by Assistant Attorney-General
Anderson to the college dean.
One stock-killing bear, 100 coyotes
is bobcats and five raccoons were
sent to the happy hunting ground dur
ing the month OF December by the
federal, state and cooperative hunt
ers, according to the report Of Glenn
R. Bach, predatory animal inspector
for the biological survey for this state.
Fifty pairs Of Bamboo cartridges,
ordered by the Snohomish game COM
mission, will reach Everett from
China Sunday, to be followed by fifty
pair of Chinese pheasants. The pur-
chase is to introduce new partridges
into the county and to introduce new
blood into the large stock of pheasants
already planted.
Demand for q tax limit of 40 mills
on real and personal property in the
state of Washington is to be renewed
by means of the initiative. Immediate
organization and effort to procure a
sufficient number Of signatures to mi
tiative petitions was decided upon at
a meeting of property owners and real
estate dealers held in Seattle.
An attempted contracting of indebt-
edness in any year in excess Of the
current revenues, without an affirma-
tive vote of the electors, is void under
the statutes, as cons.i%5"' ny the su-
preme court and a warrant issued in
payment of such Indebtedness is a
void obligation, is the opinion of AS.
sistant Acknowledgement e. w. Ander.
son.
Puget Saunders, Associated, was the
name announced al Seattle for an
organization representing Victoria
and Vancouver, in British Columbia,
and Seattle, Tacoma and Bellingham,
that is to advertise to stimulate spring
travel to the state and province from
the rest of the Pacific coast 1t was
stated that $4,000 had been obtained
for the campaign.
An amendment to the postal laws
to permit mailing of hotel keys back
to the hotel to which they belong at
q rate of two cents an ounce prepaid,
or four cents for two ounces or less,
collect on delivery, was introduced in
the house by Representative Albert
Johnson of Washington. The bill has
the Endorsement Of the Hotel Assoc
citation of Washington.
First of series of 16 suits involv-
ing payment of more than 100000 in
wartime bonuses wat started before
Superior Court Judge Boyd j. Tallman
at Seattle. The action was brought by
William Cook, former superintendent
of construction for the Seattle North
Pacific Shipbuilding company, who is
seeking payment Of SS7,oS7 in alleged
additional compensation promised.
More than 100000 acres of timber
land owned by the state of Washing
ton will be exchanged for national
forest land If plans discussed at a con
ference between forestry officials and
the state land commissioner are car
ried through. Clark V. Savidge, state
commissioner of lands for Washing
ton, and F. o. Suther, assistant, met
with delegation from the forest serv-
ice headed by G. j. Buck. The state
owns two sections in each township
and the conference was one of num-
Der to arrange the selection, appraisal
and exchange to combine the scatter.
ed sections into larger tracts.
Apple growers OF the Pacific north
west will form one gigantic selling
organization through which their crop
will be marketed hereafter and which
will be cooperative organization
from which shippers will be excluded.
Plans for such an organization were
laid by the growers at a conference
at Yakima. President Kaufman OF
the Washington state chamber of com
merce was authorized to name a com
mittee OF five to organize all of the
apple growers of the Pacific north
west into one selling association tc
handle the entire northwest apple
crop in the markots Of the east ond
in other countries.