Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-02

Charles H. unverzagt, promoter of
an alleged fraudulent S1,500,OO0 gold
mining proposition, is being held at
Bellingham on a charge of using the
mails to defraud, on indictments re.
turned by the federal grand jury at
Buffalo, N, Y, on March 2.
Announcement of a new embargo
prohibiting Importation into this state
of any fruit or vegetables from the
twalve California counties now af-
fected by the foot and mouth disease
was made by h. L. French, director OF
the state department of agriculture.
Ernest sesborg, Washington state
supervisor of fisheries, has announc
ed that the state fisheries board would
hold public hearing in Seattle May
10 to decide when, where and how
smelt, herring and all other food fish
of Puget sound except salmon shall
be taken
Forest fires have broken out and
are growing more dangerous hourly,
Fred A. Pape, supervisor of forestry,
has announced. Reports coming in
| from various localities in western
Washington indicate that forest fires
were growing in magnitude and i'm
portance.
| Tho Tlorlya and CGornnnin County
Bankers association was organized at
Vancouver with Lloyd Dubois, presi.
dent of the Washington Exchange
Bank, Vancouver, president; o. F.
i Johnson, of Camas, vice-presldent; FL.
lis Laird, Of Washougal, secretary and
treasurer.
Declaring that the Pacific Coast is
constantly exposed to the menace of
the introduction of the foot and mouth
epzootic from the infected orient, DR..
L, l., French of the state department.
OF agriculture has sent a telegram to
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace urg-
ing permanent protection of Pacific
ports.
Announcement was made at Monte
sano by Game Warden Winslow that
arrangements have been made with
the federal fish hatchery at Lake Quin-
ault for the rearing of steelhead salm-
on to be planted in the waters of Grays
Harbor county when they reach finger
length. The county will furnish the
feed and a man to care for the fish.
Representative Sam B. Hill's bill to
pay Stevens and Ferry counties s115,-
000,r held to be due them as taxes on
Indian lands on the Colville Indian
reservation, was unanimously reported
from the house committee on Indian
affairs. The house passed the bill at
| the last session Of congress, but the
senate failed to give favorable action.
The Walla Walla district will har-
vest some fruit this year, but it will
only be fraction of what the output
promised to be before the disastrous
frost of last week Wendell P. Brown,
district horticulturist, estimates that
the district will have not to exceed 100
cars of apples and so cars of prunes.
Apple damage ranges from 75 to 80 per
cent.
Yakima wool is to be stored and not
sacrificed on the present market. This
decision was reached when owners of
100000 pounds of the valleys best clip
met in Yakima at the office of ]. z.
Sears, secretary of the Washington
Wool Growers association, with rep
resentatives Of banks, and concluded
arrangements for storing the wool I'M
til satisfactory price can be obtained.
Results Of survey made by the GER
amics division of the engineering ex-
pertinent station of the University of
Washington to discover what raw ma
terials exist in the Inland Empire for
the building up OF the clay industry
have been furnished the industrial bu-
reau of the city of Spokane by Dr..
Henry Suzzallo, president The survey
shows that these clays open up wide
range of manufacturing activities.
A dispute over the price of milk,
which threatened for a time to affect
the milk supply of Seattle, was annie.
ably adjusted at conference in Mayor
Edwin ], Browns office between rep
resentatives of Seattle Milk shippers
association, an organization of dairy
farmers, and the Seattle MIX Distrb-
utors' association. Twelve Of the larg-
est milk dealers in Seattle were affect,
ed by the decision which provides for
the payment by the distributors to the
producers of 1915 hundredweight
for milk delivered last March, S265
for April and May deliveries and $3.50
for June milk
The Washington state highway com
mission must purchase at its own ex-
pense that part of the right-ofway OF