Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-25

| OF that section and thus becomes the
first woman to be eligible to the title
of judge in Walla Walla county.
In the value of imports from foreign
countries during February 1924, the
/ Washington customs district, of which
Seattle is the largest port of entry,
ranks second in the United States for
the eight months ending March l.
Formal organization of the Bob
cite Club" with membership of III
bobbed hair women pledged to wear
their hair cut for at least three years,
was announced al Spokane by Miss
Margaret Frenger, the vice president,
Final registration figures for the
spring quarter at the University OF
Washington show an increase of 800
students over the same quarter last
year. A total of 4,793 students are now
in attendance, 2,SO4 men and 1863
! women.
Suspension of the license to operate
motor vehicle is effective even dur,
ing the time an appeal is pending from
the judgment r. G. Sharpe, assist.
, ant encouragement held in an opinion
issued to Fred ]. Dibble, director OF
| licenses.
Luther 7, Weedin, United States i'm
MIGRATION nnr,ro; c,;onar e;o,jopa1 n,
| Seattle, announced that plot to SNUG.
gle Japanese into this country had
been unearthed, and that is Japanese
had been arrested in western Wash
ington as result.
With more than S5,000,00O in its
general fund, and with total cash
balance of SIS, s7,79S.3S, the state of
Washington has probably the latest
wallet in its history. Tax remittances
from the county treasurers are pour
ing in at lively rate.
Prediction was made at Seattle by
John E. Carroll, councilman, after an
inspection trip to the Gorge creek
unit of Seattle's power project on
the Skagit river in the Cascade noun
tains, that power would not be devel-
oped for use until August l.
The University of Washington will
not be represented in the Olympic try
7 outs on the Schuylkill river at Phila-
delphia by crew this year, but will
! send two shells east to row on the
Hudson river at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
athletic authorities of the university.
A new source of danger from the
foot and mouth disease was pointed out
to the state department of agriculture
in a telegram from ]. W. Wiley, a
! horticulture inspector for the depart
ment located at Spokane, reporting
| that contraband California products
were being brought into the state
/ through the mail.
Anyone who finds suspicious bugs
wandering around his front yard and
fears that they may be advance
agents for an invasion of an army of
carvings, is invited to send them to
! the state department of agriculture in
Olympia for investigation and identi-
fication. by Charles L. Robinson, SUI
/ pervisor of horticulture.
! Operations as common carrier
were begun Monday for the fist time
| by the Longriew, Portland & Northern
railway on the line between VaGer in
Lewis county and Ryderwood, a dis
lance of about eight miles. The road
is intended mainly for logging opera
4 tions of the Long-Bell Lumber COM
pany, and construction will be con
tinued for some time.
An ordinance proposed by Philip
Tindall, Seattle councilman and chair
man of the utilities committee for in
vestigation of hydro-electric project
on the Skagit river, in the Cascade
mountains, is to be held up until
new council is organized in June. The
ordinance provided for the investiga.
ton and for an appropriation of S25,.
900 to cover expenses of the work.
The question of necessity and feas-
Utility of extending a quarantine
patrol to the passenger trains them
selves to make certain that sheep
hands, farm laborers and possibly
camping tourists from the infected
areas of California do not gain ac-
cess to the state of Washington with
out having been properly fumigated,
is seriously considered, E. L. French,
director of the department of agricul,
ure, has declared.
The North Bank highway, which
has been closed about two months at
Government Slide, miles west OF
Stevenson, will not be open until about
June l, according to the state district
highway engineer, as the mountain
continues to slide into the road The