The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-11-13


vest OF sprinEdaie BY Carl Aho. also
Finn, Who lived near them. and with
whom. T. lie said. they had quarrelod
After shooting the couple Aho shot
himself with tho same rifle.
The increasing difneulty Of making
souh ends mee; for a family with chill
dren has resulted in an alarming In.
crease Of applications OF Tacoma
school boys for permits 10 quit school
and go 20 work, according TO A. Nicho-
las school attendance officer
a cur,iss airplane piloted by n. D.
Clampeii and " D. Hoyt of Wenst.
chee, is flying from the Canadian
border to the Mexican boundary
and is advertising the home communi.
~ pictures % huge red apple being
painted on the sides Of the aircraft.
A decision Of interest TO the state
OF Washington was made by Judge
r c. Mills in superior court at walls
Nalla. when he held that the estate
Of each direct heir is entitled TO $40.
oo0 exemption before the state inheri.
lance tax Of per cent could be com.
puted.
twenty-five thousand ono hundred
and slrtynine dollars and eighty-fiye
cents in tolls was collected on the In
terstate bridge AZ Vancouver during
October, an average OF s7l5 a day This
IS exclusive Of street ear passengers,
and the grand total viii approximate
$4,000
Final estimates Of the apple crop OF
the wenatchee district, including Che
Ian, okanogsn and Grant counties
made by District Inspector Daring
ton. Indicate a total yield OF over IL
600 carloads. which is an increase OF
30 per cent over last year, when $3.50
cars were shipped out.
Human life is the cheapest thing
In Seattle, Superior Judge Hall re-
marked when he sentenced Frank
Weaver, convicted Of murder, to the
penitentiary for 20 years. Judge Hall
said he had in mind Seattle's record
Of 10 homieides and 30 other violent
deaths in the last so days
Hereafter the telephone company
will be liable in damages for poor
service, even II no particular loss s.
shown. This 10 the substance OF a
verdict by jury In Judge Gilliams
court at Seattle, which gave Mark NJ
Liichman and his wife a verdict for
sos for Inconvenience discomfort
and annoyance"
As a result OF election being called
to start at O'Clock instead OF /
o'clock as the law specifics In the case
Of this sort, the attorneygene has
declared the bond election held by the
KioEa. Benton school district Of Ben
ton county some time ago for the pur
pose of buying ground and building a
new school building was Illegal.
Harvest of sugar beets has started
in walla Walla. Close to 10000 tons
win be harvested this year at a price
that will bring the growers between
100000 and 100000 This is the sec
ond year beets have been raised there
and campaign will be conducted this
fall and winter TO get several thousand
acres of beets contracted for next sea
son
Impeled to the action by the dis
astrous results OF the recent building
trades strike and disguised with RAIDS.
cal leadership that brought about the
trouble, the Seattle bricklayers union
has voted to withdraw from the build
ing trades council and to refrain in
the future from "entangling alliances"
dangerous to the legitimate trade un.
ion movement
With the charge that children have
been tortured and, in one instance.
killed by operations performed by the
school clinic at Seattle Oliver Nc
Gilyra and other parents Of school
children opened a case before Superior
Judge Calvin s. Hall in which they
asked an injunction abolishing the
clinic The suit is directed at school
district No. l.
Following up his declaration that
the people Of this state would not be
permitted to suffer priyation and cold
on the verge Of winter through the dis
agreement Of coal operators and min.
ers in the middle west and not affect
ing this state, Governor Hart is I'M
derstood to have begun a personal in
quiry to ascertain the sentiment of
operators and union miners.
A. c. Dennis Of Seattle, one Of tho
most widely known tunnel constrr'
tion engineers in the United States.
has Just completed an inspection Of all
proposed tunnel sites on the Columbia
basin irrigation canal from Albany
falls on the Pend oreille river to the