Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-28


itself. Federal Judge jeremiah Neterer
at Seattle dismissed the governments
case against Samuel Levlnson, charg-
ed with possession of case of
whisky.
DR.. c. p. Balabanoff, prominent Ia
coma physician, was indicted by a
federal grand jury at Seattle for the
alleged illegal sale OF narcotic pre-
scriptions. He was arrested February
20. DR.. Charles G. MacCallum, Van
couver, was also indicted. He is charg-
ed with making seven sales of mar
cotics to addicts.
Right of city or town to refuse
to issue license for operation of
soft drink place or business to per-
son known to have been violator of
the liquor laws and given to unlaw-
full and immoral practices, where such
cities or towns have such license regu.
lations by ordinances, is sustained by
the state supreme court.
Gasoline consumption in this state
in February was 100000 gallons
more than in the previous month and
100000 gallons greater than in Feb.
ruary, 1923, according to report of
Percy Jones, assistant state director of
licenses. A tax of 2 cents gallon,
effective the first of the year, yielded
$40, 756.06 to the state for the month.
Seattle's docks and grain elevators
have not been getting due proper
ton of the wheat exporting business
of the Pacific northwest, according
to shipping officials. OF the amount
which moved to great city terminals
Portland got 29,663,2OO bushels, Sc
attic 12,642,OOO, Tacoma 11,34O,0O0,
Astoria 4,43S,0O0 and Spokane $685.
000
A newspaper carrier boy does not
come under the Industrial insurance
act, even though occasionally the boys
go into the pressroom to get their
papers, says the state supreme court
in affirming the Thurston county court
in dismissal of the action of Edwin
Amsbaugh, by his guardian, against
the department Of labor and indus
tries.
Reduction of the test weight on
wheat from so to IS pounds bushel
was recommended by a meeting of
growers, millers and grain dealers at
a hearing held in Spokane by DR.
Henry c. Taylor, head of the federal
bureau of agricultural economics in
Washington, d. c., and E. L. French,
head of the state department of agri-
culture.
Any pedestrian walking on the right
side of any public highway between
one-half hour after sunset and one
half hour before sunrise, does SO at
his own risk and peril, since the 1921
law provides pedestrians shall walk
only on the left side of the highway
during that period, according to deci-
sion of the supreme court involving
this point.
T. Waldo Murphy and wife, Seattle,
property owners in Stevens county,
have begun action against Marvin
Chase, state supervisor of hydraulics,
and Walter L. Woodland and wife, seek
ing to restrain them from apportion-
ing any of the waters of Stranger
creek and asking that decree be en-
tered quoting title Of the waters of
Stranger creek in the plaintiffs.
For failure to obey the order of the
state department of public works to
file tariff for certain schedule of
boat rates, two actions were filed in
Thurston county superior court against
the Kasch Transportation company.
One is to enjoin further operation I'M
der the old tariff and the other asking
$1,000 judgment as penalty. The COM
pany operated a boat between Belling-
ham, Anacortes and San Juan island
points.
Fire hazard in the Olympic PENN
sula in northwestern Washington oc-
casioned by hurricane of the winter
of 1921, which devastated more than
$50 square miles, is virtually over, ac
cording to an opinion by Colonel w
B. Greeley, forester-in-chief at Wash
ington, D. C. An appropriation suffic
lent to continue maintenance of in
tensive fire prevention methods in
that region will be asked of congress
however, It was declared
Dates have been reset for the two
important gas cases before the state
department of public works. The com
plant of the city OF Seattle against
the rates of the Seattle Lighting com
pany will be heard in Seattle May 20
at the chamber of commerce. The
big statewide British thermal units
case, for the establishment of uni