Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-07


tract includes about 50,000,000 feet
according to Mr.. Buffelen.
Plans are under way for forming
Il recreation district, along the Blew
EFT pass highway, according to Forest
Supervisor A, II. Sylvester, and per
mlts will be granted by the fores,
service soon to persons desiring &c
erect summer homes, resorts, hotels
or stores on government land.
Success Of the proposed Kittitas
County Dairymen's association is as
sured, with more than II per cent
OF the dairymen in the district tribu
tary to Ellensburg under contract, It
was announced by l.. l.. Sharp, chair
man Of special farm bureau com
mittee In charge of organization.
Seattle led San Francisco by $685..
381,S7l in the value of goods passing
into the port from foreign countries
during 1923, according to statistics re.
ceived from Washington, d. c., by
Collector of Customs Harrison. Fig.
ures for the IL months showed Sc.
attle's imports amounted to $3.50, 15S,.
367.
Passage Of the McNary-Haugen bill
will mean S5OOO0,OOO more for the
Pacific northwestern wheat crop in
1924 than was received for the 1928
crop, on the basis of the same bushel.
age ip 1924, according to Walter J.
Robinson. general manager of the
Washington Wheat Growers associa,
ton.
Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engi,
neer, has advised ranchers and irriga,
tion districts on the east side of the
Cascades to conserve moisture, saying
that scanty supply of stream and
creek runoff, with early disappear
ance of snow in the mountains, point
to a short supply for irrigation pur-
poses.
Reorganization of Grays Harbor
county berry growers took place III
Elma last week. r. w. Wallace
Montesano, was chosen president;
Emil Pauly, Wishkah Valley, vice
president; and G. F. Young, Elma
secretary 1t is planned to get all
of the berry growers into one organ
ization.
BY an agreement reached between
officers of the Automobile club Of
Washington and Oregon traffic of
ficers, Washington violators OF the
Oregon traffic laws who are members
in good standing of the Automobile
club Of Washington will be permitted
70 deposit their membership cards in
feu of bail.
The quadrennial convention of the
North Pacific union conference OF
Seventh Day Adventsts was held in
the Adventist church at College Place
near Walla Walla with many promin-
ent leaders in attendance. The con.
ference comprises the states of Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and
the territory OF Alaska.
Spokane leads the 18th federal re-
serve district in wholesale business In
agricultural implements in January,
1924, over the same month year ago.
Spokane's wholesale dealers in agri-
cultural implements did 3S.4 per cent
more business last January than IN
1923. The district as a whole showed
a loss OF 11.4 per cent.
Curb gasoline dealers of Walla
Walla have organized and announced
that they will retain an attorney and
fight attempts of the "drive-in" serv-
ice stations to put them out OF bust
ness. The "drive-in" stations, through
an attorney, appealed to the city com
for an ordinance that would
prohibit the others from operating.
Petitions for the Improvement of
the road from La Center on the Pacific
highway in Clarke county to Amboy,
by way of View and Farghar lake
under the Donahue road act, and from
Heisson to Amboy from the perman-
ent highway fund, the property own
ers to pay 20 per cent Of the cost,
have been signed by 95 per cent Of
the property owners.
A federal grand jury was called at
Spokane by United States District
Judge j. Stanley Webster to make an
investigation Of charges and counter
charges of alleged fraud and perjury
growing out of the suit on trial in
United States district court for the
foreclosure of a milllon-dollar bond
issue of the Washington-ldaho Water,
Light & Power company.
Placing the bag limit at one male
deer during the season; the limit for
Chinese pheasants at two daily; ma.