The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-11-13
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

SEES we're issued al Vancouver
The Sunset highway over the sno.
qualmie pass Is closed hy snow
A bad caye-in stopped drilling az
the Standard Oh companys Mochps
well
Italians Of Seattle have raised sl2oo
as fund 20 help support ltalys claims
80 Fiumo
Tho teachers Of cowliis county have
organized the cowltz County Teach
ers league
Clarke county pr,me growers have
organized the clarke County prune
Packers association
Increase OF 20 men IN seat,ie's 20
lie7 force was approved bg the city
council finance committee
More than 20 families IN rrosser are
without coal as result OF the short
age and the number il growing
Four conferences Of the fruit and
potato growers OF the northwest viii
be held In Spokane December ID,
Indians can not fish within 400 feet
OF the Prosser dam according 80 a
ruling Of the state supreme court.
A new woman's building to cost
$4,000 is being erected at the wash.
ington state normal school at Ellens
burg
December 10 and Il has been set as
the date for the third annual session
Of the red cedar shingle congress. to
be held in Seattle
Owing to the coal strike, Maiden is
now under ration system in fuel,
one-hnlf ton Of coal being sold at one
time TO purchaser
The utahIdaho sugar beet plant at
1opnenish started running in full blast
last week Beets are coming in at the
rate OF 300 tons daily
This week will see the apple crop
harvested in the immediate vicinity OF
Walla Walls. Packing viii continue
for from two to four weeks.
Stuart Cyril Emigh. aged 70, was
electroouted in the garage at the fam
lily home in walla walla when he took
hold Of an electric light wire.
The Montague, the seventh 95OO-ton
steel freiehter 10 be built by the C.
NJ. standifer CONSERVATION corporation
in Vancouver, was launched Saturday
a logging engine and two cars load
ed with shingles from the Doty Lum
Der and shingle company fell through
the bridge across the Chehalis river
at Doty.
Mile, Yvonne Rapion, the second Of
two French girls sent to Pullman for
a course at the state college by the
French government, has arrived and
taken up her studies,
Union officials at Gle Elum. Roslyn
and Ronald ordered enough miners
back into the mines to decrease still
more the possibility Of damaging boil,
ers and pumps during the shutdown.
The highest price ever paid in spo-
kane for fat steer was paid at the
livestock show, when the champion
yearling fat steer of the exhibition
was sold at 90 cents pound on the
hoof.
The Foothills farms, owned by w.
B. Aver of Carlton, cleaned up all
championships and firsts in the milk.
ing Shorthorn class of dairy cattle
at the Western Royal Livestock show
in Spokane
Arrests will be made II Seattle resi-
dents continue violating a recent rule
allowing one and one-half pounds of
sugar month to each person, United
States District Attorney R. c. saund-
ers announced
Complete liberalization Of the west.
ern division of the Milwaukee rail
road'will be finished during November
and It is planned TO have special
ceremony when the first electric loco
motive reaches Tacoma.
Far surprising all previous registra-
ton records IN the history of Seattle,
the total number Of persons registered
for the school and port elections in
December probably will be more than
1900 when the books close.
James Chambers. from Portland
purchased % acres OF the A. p. Garner
place at Mount Solo, near Kelsc for
$4,000. This land is mostly cleared
and ready for cultivation but is I'M
improved and without buildings.
Blind, or nearly blind. 40 strong.
healthy. able-bodied men are in Gus
tody at the King county stockade and
will be wards OF the taxpayers OF the
state during the rest OF their natural
lives as a result OF drinking denatured
alcohol
After buying a rundown orchard
near Prosser on easy payments Luke
Powell has harvested crop that in
one season FAR more than pays the
total cost of the orchard. From nine