Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-15


filed with the state department o
public works by the Spokane Gas &
Fuel company, the department has Is
sued an order suspendlng the new
rates for period of 80 days.
An explosion, believed by members
of the dry Squad to have been from
still on the second floor nearly wreck
ed fhr'story building in Seattle, i'm
perileu the lives of more than score
OF persons in the structure and caus
ed an estimated fire damage Of 500,
900.
Officers elected at the Washington
| state Holstein. Friesan association
meeting at Mount Vernon were as
follows; Harvey r. Shoultes of Adna,
Lewis county, reelected president;
Thomas j. Owens, Kirkland, vice.
president; q. Hoem, Snohomish, treas.
urer.
High price record for a single sec.
tion of timber sold at state sale was
again broken at the sale last week
when the Long. Bell Lumber company
paid the appraised value of S185,14
for section OF timber in Cowlitz
county, This does not include the
land.
j. B. Stevenson of Pomeroy was
elected president of the Pacific North
west Hardware and Implement asso-
citation, in session at Spokane, and A.
q. Wells of Wenatchee was reelected
president of the hardware underwrit.
ers insurance department of the as
ISOLATION.
An appeal has been made by the
publicity committee of the Seattle
chamber of commerce to its members
and to citizens of Washington state,
business men and commercial organ.
izations to drop the use of Wash"
and "Wn." in letters and to write it
Washington"
Adams county commissioners have
voted to complete three miles of road
between permanent highway No. T and
seven miles Of gravcled road east of
Othello. Completion of this stretch,
uniting these two roads, will give
we'll graded surface road from Othello
to Cunningham.
Representatives Summers and Hill
of Washington appeared before the az.
ricultural subcommittee of the house
appropriations committee in behalf of
an increased appropriation for study
of fruit diseases. The money would
be used for maintaining the govern
ment laboratory at Wenatchee.
By decision of the state supreme
court, unfolding the states alfalfa
weevil quarantine against southern
Idaho and certain other territory, adj
publication is given the states right of
quarantine against designated pro
ducts from specified areas, common
ly known as blanket quarantine.
Discovery of new dry kiln process
for seasoning lumber was announced
by Albert Hermann of Portland, Or.
who told the members of the Western
Pine Manufacturers association in
session at Spokane, that it would eff
feet saving of approximately 20 per
cent in the cost of drying their pro.
duct.
Senator G. c. Dill is to introduce
a resolution in the United States SEN
ate demanding publication OF the Sc
cret report of the investigation into
the prohibition enforcement situation
in this state conducted by federal in
vestigators recently, according to q
confidential telegram received in Ia
coma from Washington, D. c.
The milling industry of the north
west is on decline and the turn has I
not yet come, according to Ed Leonard
Of the Preston Shaffer mills of Waits
burg. In the three states, Oregon,
and Idaho, there is suf-
,fcient milling capacity to grind into
'lour in eight months all the wheat
'aised in the three states in any year.
Samuel H. Short, former Seattle
,atrolman, was acquitted by jury in
court OF manslaughter
;harge in connection with the fatal
of Isaac Hamburger, secre-
airy to Federal Judge E. E Cushman
If Tacoma, and the wounding of Mrs
Toilet Davis of Seattle, October II,
While attempting to stop pair of al,
eyed shoplifters in the business sec.
ion Of the city.
A bodybuilding program that will
ost approximately 100000 and open
he Chelatchie valley, in the northern L
art of Clarke county, a section that
as been held back through lack OF