Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-11

weapon partly like a shotgun and
partly like pistol has been adopted
by the Standard Oil company to com.
! ba; robbers in Seattle.
Gain of more than three-luarters
of million dollars in the amount of
motor vehicle lceGse collections up
to April l over the previous year, is
shown by the report of State Treas.
urer c. L, Babcocli, total collections
to date being S3,59S,O13.65.
Washington and Oregon should
have a representative in Washington
ton. d. c., to look after matters com
ing up before the interstate commerce
commission that vitality affect these
western states, Frank r. Spinning, as.
sistant supervisor of public works, be-
| lieveS.
County Game Warden McCurtiy be.
gan last week the distribution of 245,-
600 eastern brook trout to seven
Clarke county streams. Rock creek,
Salmon creek and Cedar creek receiv-
/ ed $4,000 each, Lackamas, Big Tree
and Fifth Plain creeks $4,000 each
and Whipple creek 10000.
Another step in the action of the
| federated Colville Indian tribes to
recover approximately S20,000,000
from the government in payment for
lands of which they were unlawfully
deprived was taken in superior court
in Spokane when the tribesmen Of
ficIally retained lawyers to push the
case.
School policies for the coming year
will be discussed at convention OF
southwest Washington superintend.
ents and principals in Centralia, April
| 10. In connection with the conven-
tion meeting of the southwest Wash
ington athletic league will be held,
at which 1924 football schedule will
be drawn.
One hundred and twenty-eight mills
reporting to the West Coast Lumber.
| mems association, for the week end
ing March 30, manufactured 97,S15,.
! 443 feet of lumber, sold S9766,194 feet,
and shipped 1O6,172,572 feet, accord.
ing to the weekly report of the asso
citation. Production of reporting mills
was 10 per cent above normal.
/ Completion of bore known as the
/ Gorge Creek tunnel that Seattle il
/ building as part of power project OF,
the Skagit river in northwestern
Washington will be delayed beyond
! May l, it is announced. Immunity
! from penalties incurred because the
| tunnel was not done on time had
been granted the contractor until
May l.
! Fish traps, fish wheels and purse
/ seines would be barred in CONNER
| cial salmon fishing in the salt or fresh
waters of the state, If initiative meas
ure No. 81, filed for ballot title with
/ Secretary of State Hinkle, becomes
law by vote of the people. The filing
was made by l. W. Alexander, presi,
dent of the Commercial club of La
Conner, Skagit county, on behalf OF
that organization.
/ Walla Walla must Immediately dis.
! continue disposing Of its sewage un
der the present method, according to
an order of the directors of the state
board of health. Practice for years
has been to discharge about 60 per
cent OF the sewage into Mill creek,
the remainder being poured into irri-
cation bitches and used on land west
| OF tho city. Both these methods are
contrary to state laws.
Award of contracts for work on the
Mount Baker highway IN Washington
to the lowest bidders was recommend
: ed by the Portland office of the United
States bureau of roads. The low bid
on grading nine miles from Suksan
to Austin pass was s19S,S75, by Strong
& Carlson of Tacoma, and for swfac-
ing six miles OF the Glacier-Excelsior
section was $S5,7sO, offered by the
Sloan Construction company of Spo
/ kane.
With record of a IS per cent re,
payment on its first attempt at ad-
vancing seed wheat to farmers of the
state, success of the plan is assured,
according to Dan A. Scott, director of
the department of conservation and
development. a total advanced for
spring wheat FOR the 1923 crop on
$50 applications was $6O,6O5. OF this
amount, $57,OS3 has already been col,
lected. Only Ii accounts are still
outstanding. For the fall wheat 122
applications were received and s26,044
lent to the wheat farmers by the state,
Industrial payrolls for the state OF
Washington are shown to have made
a phenomenal increase during the past
! .