Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-06
Worlds News

Thousand Japanese flies have been
imported by the United States depart.
ment of agriculture to wage battle
against the Japanese beetle which Is
playing havoc with orchards and farm
products In a small section OF the
country along the Atlantic seaboard,
says Current Opinion. The beetle got
u foothold on the eastern coast sew
eral years ago In a territory where 1t
apparently has few natural enemies
The larvae or pupae, are believed to
have been brought from Japan in balls
OF earth around the roots Of imported
shrubbery. 1t was because the beetle
was known to come from Japan that
the government dispatched specialists
in the Identifying of parasites to the
Land Of Cherry Blossoms, and 1t was
determined that the most effective
natural enemies Of these pests were
the Japanese, or Dexiid fly. One ex-
pert has returned with these $4,000
dexiid flies In the pupa stage, three
others being still in Japan studying
the beetle. Later 1t is proposed to
have one man sent to China, one to
Russia and one to northern India, to
make a study Of the Japanese beetle
in those countries.
GLOBE, Arizona. = Little Nicholas
Marich, 8 years old, is dead here after
being sting by a scorpion recently.
The child had just leaped out of bed
and ran into the kitchen to kiss his
mother good morning when he was
stung by the insect which had been
driven into the house because Of cold
weather.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Dinosaur
tracks made 100000 years ago have
been identified on the Navajo Indian
reservation In Arizona, 1t was an.
nounced at the interior department
recently. The footprints measure six
teen inches in length with a spread
of thirteen inches. The step or stride
of the prehistoric animal which made
them was estimated to be about fifty.
three inches. The toes were discov-
cred in thin layer Of rock about
seven miles from Tuba City, Arizona.
Identification Of the tracks was made
by Dr. G. w. Gilmore OF the Smith
sonian Institution, who visited the
Grand Canyon national park at the
request of the national park service.
CALGARY, Alberta-A historic
pageant of some proportions is being
planned by the Calgary Exhibition
Board to be held in Calgary this year
in commemoration Of the 50th ami
versary of the establishment of the
city by Mounted Police in 1875.
1 TRAIL, B. Canada produced
some 16S,70O.000 pounds Of lead in
I 1924, and 1t is estimated that nearly
1S0,0O0,000 Of this came from the
Trail smelter OF the Consolidated
Mining and Smelling Company. Cam
ada's production figured out at 84,357
tons, as against 55,607 tons in 1928.
1
VANCOUVER, B. C.-Increase Of
nearly $3,50O,0oO in land and property
values and of 5000 in population for
1924 Is attested by the city assess
ment figures. The total assessment
is s211, 724,565, land being valued at
S126,S15 ,440, and Improvements as
sessed at s85, 4O9,125. Taxed values
In the city in 1925 will be s189, 019, 1885,
| LOS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
civic interests now campaigning FOR
the carrying out of an elaborate civic
center plan here, viii present bill
to the state legislature at present
session calling for the building OF a
state building in this city, according
to advices from Sacramento. The
principal plan now in the limelight
and GRATED by group Of architects,
calls for the purchase of the entire
Bunker Hill section and removing the
several hundred residences, hotels
and apartments adjoining that site and
converting it into park and public
building sites.
DAWSON, Y. T.-sam Mccormick,
mail carrier, had a narrow escape
when his four horses and sleigh load
ed with mail, including Christmas
goods for Miller and Glacier Creek,
broke through the ice on Swede Creek
and were submerged in three feet Of
water, the temperature being 40 be-
low zero. Mccormick cut loose the
Lead horses to let them make their
own way back to Dawson, distance
of "a miles. He returned later with
the wheel team and the mail, a5an-
doning the sleigh. His hands were
badly frozen.
WATERBURY, Contour chill
dren of Harry LOOMS of Middlebury,