Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-01-04
STATE news CONDENSED
FOR THE BUSY READER
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Exports of flour from Puget Sound
for 1928 were 2,S00,O00 barrels.
A total of $243O was received dur.
ing the 1923 season by the Chehalis
! park board
The Yakima commercial club will
put on membership drive beginning
January II.
Seven pairs of twins, ranging in
age from three to ten years, are quar-
antined in Yakima flor measles.
More than 300 children were enter.
| tanned by the Salvation Army post OF
Vancouver at a Christmas party.
During 1928, with the exception Of
the last week, total of 214,937,274
feet Of lumber was produced by the
100 mills of the West Coast Lumber.
mems association, according to re.
port compiled by Robert B. Allen,
secretary-manager of the company at
Seattle.
Agreement by the department of
public works of Washington state and
the public service commission of Ore
gon to work in cooperation in enforce
ment of railroad scale testing regula-
lions was reached in conference at
Olympia of Washington and Oregon
officials.
of water second from the Sultan riv-
er in Snohomish county for use in
hydro.electric plant has been received
by Marvin Chase, supervisor of n.y.
draulics, from the Puget Sound Light
and Power company. 1t is expected
to develop 1000 horsepower.
A Great Northern railroad schedule
Of new freight rates intended to APP
ply to fresh fruits and vegetables ship
ped out of the Yakima district has
been suspended by the interstate COM
MERGE commission to await an investi-
CATION as to the reasonability of the
increases which It would involve.
Among wheat-producing states OF
the country having 100000 acres or
more in crop, Washington alone shows
an increase in winter wheat acreage
Of 1928 sowing, according to the Chi
cago Daily Drovers Journal. Washing.
ton has gain In winter wheat acre
age of 10 per cent, according to the
Chicago publication.
Charging fraud and deceit by which
they claim to have lost thousands Of
dollars in transaction with the Elk
change National bank of Spokane five
stockholders of the First State bank
OF Prescott filed suit for $4,000 in
the superior court of Walla Walla
county against Fred Stevens, state
bank examiner, and the American
Surety company Of New York.
Requirements Of both the old and
the new 1923 law relative to road and
] bridge construction and public work
in general have been habitually ignor.
ed by the King county commissioners
in the prosecution Of road and bridge
work In commissioner districts No.
and No. 3, according to report
made by State Examiners o. S. Bruins
and ]. l.. Dittemore Of the department
of taxation and examination, division
of municipal corporations.
The state highway department will
let contracts for road work on three
projects on January %, as follows:
State Road No. 8, clearing, ten miles
from Lunch creek west, in Grays Har.
Dor and Jefferson countless Same
road, clearing, twenty-five miles, be.
tween the Hob river and the north
line Of the Quinault Indian reserva-
ton, In jefferson county; Inland EN-
pire highway, surfacing with crushed
rock, ten miles from Spangle, north,
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in Spokane county.
Reports on waterways Improvement
have been submitted to congress by
Maj. General Lansing II. Beach, chief
of army engineers, on number of
projects of which his office has just
concluded surveys. In each case ap.
preparations were recommended For
the Duwnmish waterway, Seattle. Gen.
eral Beach recommended a total ex-
penditure of s365,000. The Port
Orchard bay recommendation was
made for improvements to the extent
OF removing the shoal near Point
! Glover in Richs Passage to a depth
of forty feet at mean low water at an
estimated cost Of $4,000.