The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-07-11
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

on the Fourth of July.
Three Seattle shipyards each launch,
ed two ships on the Fourth Of July.
The July Fourth payroll of Grays
Harbor logging camps Appropriated
$500 900.
A total of ss,0oOOOO bushels is esti.
mated as the wheat yield in the state
OF Washington for 1918.
After two months work. the Postal
Telegraph company's line between
Yakima and Ellensburg is nearing com
pletion.
More than 100000 feet of standing
timber destroyed and 1000 acres of
land burned over is the toll taken by
= forest fire north of Sedro- Woolley.
Sparks from logging locomotives and
improper screen equipment are causes
assigned by Acting Forest Supervisor
L. A. Treen for many forest fires re-
ported recently.
The Yakima sheep company has con.
tracted to deliver 10000 sheep about
the middle OF this month at shipping
points within the state The price
paid for the lambs is $40 head,
According to reports from 124 mills
of the West Coast Lumbermen's as
sociation, the car supply fell below
normal during the last week of June
and for the first time in six weeks
the mills were unable to ship more
lumber than they produced
j. II. Stanley, between 35 and 40
years OF age, was found dead in his
house at Alta Vista, near Chehalis,
where he lived with his wife and four
children. Stanley apparently shot him
self accidentally while going out OF
the house to clean shotgun.
Cascara bark is being peeled In
Lewis and Grays Harbor counties on
an extensive scale. Owing to the drouth
the output this season is likely to fall
short of previous years. The highest
price in the history of the industry
1Ol2 cents per pounds being paid for
bark.
Officials of the national government
have outlined plans for an extensive
housing project at Bremerton navy
yard. II is understood that expansion
of the governments plants will bring
q population Of $4,000 to Bremerton
and Charleston during the next six
months.
Representative Japanese business
men of the Pacific coast, from San
Francisco. Los Angeles, Portland and
Vancouver, B. c., in conference with
Seattle Japanese sent telegram to
President Wilson pledging support to
the government in the prosecution of
the war.
Police Chief Joel F. Warren OF
Seattle turned over to navy authori-
ties Monday $500 quarts of whisky,
valued at about $4,000 at bootlegging
prices. The stock represents an ac-
emulation of seizures since the dry
law came into effect 1t is understood
the navy will use the whisky for
medicinal purposes.
To Klickitat county attaches the dis
tinction of being the first community
In the northwest, and so far as re-
ported the first in America, to conse
crate memorial to its sons who have
met death while in the nations serv-
ice in the existing war The memorial,
modelled after the old Druid cromlech
OF Stonehenge, was erected at Mary
hill
One member of crew of Greek
section hands, working in the canyon
near Roza, Ia miles north of Yakima,
blew off both hands with what appears
to have been an internal machine. The
man picked up package on the rail
road track and started to take off
the wrappings when, with a terrific
force. the package exploded, shatter
ing both hands.
Owing to dissatisfaction with bids
submitted for the construction of a
new power plant for the state school
for girls at Grand Mound, the state
board OF control has decided to build
only the foundation and temporary
superstructure at this time. All bids
for this construction work have been
rejected and the board will employ
day labor On the job.
Raleigh NJ Falkner, OF Seattle, was
sentenced to one year in jail and fined
$4,000 following his recent conviction
on the charge of importing liquor IT,
legally into the state. Officers said
Falkner's sentence was the most severe
ever given for violation of the prohibi-
ton law Falkner, it was charged,
shipped liquor into Seattle in packing
cases, marked auto polish"
A shortage of water in Vanity
slough, which irrigates about 1000
acres of land on the Yakima Indian
reservation, has caused the reclama-
ton department to rush crew to
the intake to make dam which will