Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-25

Lewis county, where it has already
| done considerable damage to crops.
The insect probably will be classed as
the false chintz bug" Samples of
the bug have been sent to the entOmol-
ogist at the state college, Pullman.
Republican state and county com
mitteemen of eastern Washington met
| in Spokane with C. b. Fitzgerald of
Seattle, republican state chairman,
and N. c. Richards of Yakima, repub-
| lican national committeeman, to con-
slider plans for the coming campaign.
Combined efforts of the police and
fire departments and several King
county deputy sheriffs were required
to remove John p. Anderson, 49,
world war veteran, from a trolley line
guy wire, where he had climbed after
escaping from the sheriffs office in
Seattle.
Game Warden Leichhardt of Cow
litz county will begin distributing $780,
300 eastern brook trout fry which have
been in rearing ponds at the Kalama
liver hatchery for the past two months
since they were taken there from the
Chambers creek hatchery, Pierce coun-
", where they were propagated.
An order stopping the issuance Of
fire permits in forest areas of the
state until the weather becomes less
favorable to forest fires, was issued
by Dan A. Scott, director of conserva-
lion and development, upon the advice
Of Fred E. Pape, forest supervisor.
All permits already issued were sus-
pended
Beginning Of actual construction on
The Trinidad-Rock Island portion of
the new state highway from Wenat-
chez to Spokane was celebrated at
Wenatchee by a visit of Governor
Hart, Senator P. II. Carlyon, District
Engineer Guy G. Harvey, Superintend-
emit ]. NJ. Doyle of the Great Northern,
and others. Steam shovel work began
Monday.
Lumber production in western Wash.
lngton and Oregon for the first six
months of this year was 300 per cent
less than for the same period in 1928,
according to two reports issued by
the West Coast Lumbermen's asso-
citation. Sales have been 9.97 per
cent less than in 1923 and shipments
BIG per cent lower than in the same
period last year.
A permit to divert 10000 cubic feet
Of water second from the Baker
river, tributary of the Skagit river,
in Skagit county, was granted to the
Puget Sound Power and Light COM
pany of Seattle, by Marvin Chase,
state supervisor of hydraulics. The
power company will construct a hydro
electric plant to develop $4,000 horse
power Of electricity, according to its
application.
The Washington July l crop report
shows, as compared with June l, that
The condition of winter wheat drop
ped from SIS to SO per cent of normal;
spring wheat, from 81 to So; oats, from
70 to 62, and barley, from 65 to So.
The report, as issued by G. S. Ray,
Of the federal division Of crop and
livestock estimates, further shows a
small decrease in potato acreage and
an outlook for considerably smaller
potato crop than was grown in 1928.
Fruit crops show little change from
last month.
Declarations of candidacy for most
Of the major state and congressional
offices to be filled in the general cleo
lion in November are in the hands of
The secretary of state Five candidates
tiled for governor as follows: Ed
ward Clifford of Seattle, William j.
Coyle of Seattle E. L. French of Van.
couver Roland Hartley of Everett and
Thomas P. Revelle of Seattle For
lieutenantgovernor three candidates
tiled, as follows: Adam Beeler of Sc
attic, Edwin S. Gill OF Seattle and
Fred G. Remain of Tacoma. Five
tiled for the congressional race: II.
Alvin Moore and John F, Miller, both
Of Seattle, for the first congressional
district; Lindley II. Bailey of Bell
lngham and c. Y. Roscoe Of Everett
for the second district, and Albert
Johnson of Hoquidm for the third dis.
trict.
Edward L. Terry city treasurer of
Seattle, accepted from County Treas.
urer Shields the city's share of the
principal OF the 1919 taxes on the
municipal street railway system, at
the. same time making formal protest
at the King county treasmers refusal
! to pay over proportionate share OF
the interest collected for the delin.
quency, c. l.. Babcock, state treas.