Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-05-27
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

lied In Napayne
The Aberdeen Rose club s planning
TO hold Il rose show this summer.
About $500 was obtained from the
ocosta postolflce Monday night by
thieves.
Managers OF lake resorts near Spo
kane have started war on the bathing
suit thief
Fred Chleshlik was drowned at Spo
kama when he fell SO feet down well
into II feet Of water.
william II. Soaring OF the Seattle
police force has been appointed chief
Of police to succeed Joel +. Warren,
An additional 1850 feet OF sidewalks
within the city limits of Davenport
have been CONDEMNED by the city coun
Gil.
The population of Tacoma as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 9S,
9G5, gain of 22,273 since 1910 or 1873
per cent.
Owing to the discharge OF three
men some go members Of the Timber
Workers union went on strike at
Leayenworth
Pouring of concrete will begin In
shout week Oil the Winlock. Cow.
litz.Toledo highway five miles Of which
~ being paved
Odd Fellows OF the district which In,
cludes Columbia, Garfield and Walla
Wal|a counties held their convention
at Walla Walla, May e.
The burning OF slashings near Kala'
ma started fire In the Mountain Tim
Der company's holdings which threat
ened to destroy its logging road
Colonel T. M. Anderson Of Tacoma
has received notice that he has been
awarded the French croix do guerre
with gold tar for his war service.
Constructions of five miles OF cement
sidewalks and considerable street paw
ing, to cost over 100000 has been
ordered by the Winlock city council
Three young men, masked with blue
bandanna handkerchiefs, held up log
gers at Coats camp, No. 7, - miles
from Aberdeen, secured $500 and es
capped.
The industrial code commission will
hold conference at Centralia, May
81 to obtain views OF employers and
laborers relative to proposed industrial
legislation.
Three hundred farmers in the vicin.
ity of Colville have subscribed the nee.
essary 100000 for the new grange
store which will be established there
this month.
A. H. Peterson, night express clerk
for the Great Northern at Spokane,
has been arrested charged with com.
plicity in the robbery of $4,000 from
his own office.
A curtailment of gasoline to 60 per
cent of the demand was put into effect
on Grays Harbor by the Standard Oil
company as measure to avoid an
acute gas famine.
The Cushman Indian school in Taco.
ma Is to be turned into a government
hospital for the care Of disabled sol.
diers and operated under the United
States public health service.
t. c. Harry, an ex.service man Of
Tacoma, has confessed to the robbery
of 81 homes and stores in Tacoma and
four in Seattle, according to state
ment Of the police department
Marie Mcdonald, daughter of form.
er jurist of Whitman county, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment from to
20 years in the penitentiary following
her conviction on charge of forgery,
Two children were burned to death
and three other occupants of the
Henry Bloyd residence in Kelso burn.
ed and injured in escaping from the
house when the structure was destroy.
ed by fire.
The public service commission sit
ting en- banc at Walla Walla, June Is,
will hear protests against the proposal
of the Pacific Power G. Light company
to increase rates on all except irri
cation power.
Farmers of the Walla Walla valley
are uniting to fight the gophers. One
hundred farmers of Touchet have
agreed to use poison to combat the
pests, At the Baker Langdon orchard
$500 of the rodents have been trapped
since March 25,
Charles w. Johnson of the Charles
w. Johnson Lumber company, Seattle,
was elected vice.president of the Amer
lean Wholesale Lumber association
which was organized in Chicago recent
ly to coordinate the interests of the
lumber industry,
park of 1922 acres on the shores
of Lake Quinault may be set aside by
congress as national or state of
Washington park If action taken by
the Aberdeen Rotary club Is Endorsed