Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-30
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

rurlu anu ROCK SllUeS along tne pipe
line of the Northwestern Electric com.
pany on the White Salmon river, have
caused much trouble.
The main run of smelt Is on in the
Cowlitz river and the fishermen are
taking immense quantities of fish.
The fish are of unusually good quality.
To prevent sub-leasing of land to
Japanese farmers, cantaloupe growers
of the Yakima valley are insisting
upon the enforcement of the alien land
law.
With the ground frozen and 16
inches of snow in the hills, conditions
are ideal for logging in Stevens county
and they are being used to good pur.
pose.
r. H. Morgan Of Yakima has pur.
chased from ]. c. Steenson one of the
original hop ranches at Selah, the
price for the so acres being more than
s50,000.
Walla Walla county property, unless
under lock and key, is being stolen
piecemeal, according to f. ]. Canton.
wine, chairman uf the board of county
commissioners.
Port Angeles school buildings were
complimepted by A. l.. Pullen, deputy
state fire warden, after he had examin
ed them He classed them as the
cleanest in the state.
The Camas Telephone company,
serving Camas, Washougal and near
by farming districts in Clarke county,
will expend more than $500 in i'm
provements during 1925.
The first attempt to hold a corn
show will be made at Chehalis Sat
urday. A number of Lewis county
boys grew corn during 1924 and
samples will be entered.
The Fairfield Commercial club has
appointed committee to confer with
the Spokane Chamber of Commerce
relative to putting on a three.day
wheat growers conference next month.
Miss Amy Albright of Seattle was
appointed assistant secretary to Gov
ernor Hartley and will have charge
OF the general reception room in the
governors office and aid Secretary
Gardner.
Sale of the Chehalis condensery,
operated since 1906 by the Carnation
Milk Products company, was announc-
ed by E. A. Stuart of Seattle, presi-
dent, the purchasers being the Borden
company.
Apple, cherry and prune buds ex-
amined in southeastern Washington
since the recent freeze are in good
enough condition to indicate at least
a normal crop, says w. P. Brown,
district horticulturist.
Efforts to add five districts, Grass
Valley, Fern Prairie, Proebstel, Bur-
ton and West Mill Plain to Union high
school in Clarke county was defeated
by small adverse vote in Grass
Valley and Burton districts.
Successful experiments in making
balsam wool from Washington fir
trees by Donald Mccarthy, Univer-
sity of Washington chemistry student,
were announced by Dr.. H.. X. Benson,
professor of industrial chemistry.
A request for special congressional
of S76,169 for light i'm
provements in the Grays harbor
channel was telegraphed to Albert
Johnson, representative in congress,
by w. H. Peters, manager of the port
Prohibition officials at Seattle have
confiscated 56-foot gasoline vessel,
registered under the ownership of
Elmer F. Anderson of Tacoma, and
valued at S25,000 The vessel is held
in connection with liquor seizure at
Steilacoom.
With nearly half of 80 persons in
dicted by a federal grand jury in Sc
attic arrested, the most important
members of an alleged liquor conspir-
acy gang on the Pacific coast declar-
ed to have been headed by Roy Ohm
sted, eX-Seattle police lieutenant, have
been apprehended, declares William
NJ. Whitney. assistant prohibition di.
rector of Washington state.
Farmers and fruit growers of Clarke
county will meet Saturday at the
plant of the Oregon Packing company
in Vancouver for an all-day session
devoted to discussion of ways and
means for increasing the fruit output
Of the county.
Mayor Edwin j. Brown of Seattle
signed an ordinance passed by the city
council placing on the ballot in a
special election March 10 a proposed
charter amendment for city man