Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1919-12-25
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

$1,000, 600 on county and municipal i'm
provements.
Road work in Clarke county to the
extent of si.so6,4sl.sO was contracted
for during 1919.
BARRIERS OF Spokane are demanding
s26 a week and 65 per cent OF the re
ceipis over $40.
Richard Wiley colson, who came to
Seattle when that city was a village
of $50 persons, died there At the age
OF Sc.
Total receipts for this years an
nual western Washington fair were
sse.49s, OF which sl1,s29 was net
profits
Fire starting in the Liberty theatre
at Dayton destroyed the theatre and
adjoining property, causing loss of
$4,000.
Stricken with apoplexy on his sew
entleth birthday David Monroe. a
prominent breeder OF cattle. died at
Northport.
Announcement Is made by Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels of the award OF
the navy cross to Ernest Spencer Of
Toppenish.
Plumbers In Tacoma have made new
demands upon employers for a fiye-day
week and double wages for all work
done Saturday.
The December estimate OF the area
sown to wheat IN Washington is 9i9,-
900 acres. approximately 100000 acres
less than last fall.
The standifer steel shipyard at Van
couver. which has been closed for some
time on account Of weather conditions.
reopened Monday.
Land has been purchased for $4,000
at Aberdeen. for state armory, the
legislature having appropriated $685.
900 for the building.
Coal production. with an estimated
daily output of 1000 tons. was resum-
ed in most of the mining sections OF
Washington last week,
The Tacoma Railway, Light and
Power company last week gave notice
OF an increase in street car fares to
10 cents beginning January IS.
Fire starting from an attempt to
thaw frozen pipes destroyed six frame
buildings in the heart OF Buckley. The
loss is $4,000, with no insurance.
w. II. Wood, a rancher, is in seri-
GUS condition at Port Townsend hos
pital suffering from two bullet wounds
inflicted by an unidentified person.
Two million feet of logs we're swept
down the Cowlitz river and into the
Columbia when an ice jam near Rocky
Point. two miles above Kelso. went
out
While watering stock on his farm,
eight miles south of Prescott, C. NJ.
Brotherton, a prosperous farmer. so
years old. fell into the we'll and was
drowned.
Spokane banks that organized a syn
dictate to market the 100000 two
year note issue o. the Washington
Water Power company report the en-
tire issue sold
Two fair price commissions are to
operate in the future In the federal
district OF western Washington. One
will have headquarters In Tacoma and
the other IN Seattle
ssattle's municipal street car system
is planning 70 annex the Western
Washington Power company's North
Ballard line. one of the few street car
systems not owned by the city.
The Washington Poultry association
will hold Its annual poultry show at
Wenatehee the second week in Janu-
airy. Between 500 and 500 entries viii
be exhibited from all over the state
Mrs. Alice Won Rickert, midwife at
Spokane, has been indicted for murder
in the second degree after revolving
testimony before a coroner's jury in
volving the death Of Susie Hopkins
Using gasoline which he thought was
coal oil TO start fire in his range,
C. e. Anderson Of Cosmopolis was so
badly burned by the resultant explo-
sion that he is not expected to recover.
Trappers must obtain licenses for
taking fur-bearing animals in Wash
ington which are not specifically ex.
empted from the law by the game
code, State Game Warden Darwin an
nounced.
wilhelm Won Brincl5en. formerly mil
itsry attache at the German consulate
in San Francisco took pauper's oath
in federal court at Tacoma to effect
HIS release from MeNeil's Island peni-
Tertiary.
Efforts are being made to maintain
a Tacoma representative in Washing
ton D. c., who would devote his entire
time to looking after the city's in
terests in government offices such as
the shipping board.
Pv nroclamatfon nf Governor ouie