Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-03-25

render Of $4,000 In cash and $1,000
in diamonds The hunt for the ban.
diA Eas taken up by local operatives
but no money was forthoomine % con
tinss Il and ss e result # has practical
ly ceased until Washington. %. C.
sses NJ TO put II VI.
William D. Nelson. Spokane city
tailor and Oldest man IN the police
department In point OF service. was
choked to death while on deity by
Steve Potsskey. 80. who was taken to
the station as an insanity suspect
Figures compiled by the state bureau
of inspection and supervision Of public
offices indicate that 1t will be neces.
sary for the next two years TO levy
full five mill tax for the state gen
sral fund II deficiency is TO be avoid
ed at the end OF the next biennium
April /, 1923
Valuable deposits Of platinum and
gold have been discovered along the
beach north of the Queets river. The
platinum values assay much higher
than the gold and the concentrates
prove Of unusual richness. state the
assay reports from official and disin-
terested sources.
The GrAys Harbor cities are now
witnessing an exodus Of foreigners who
are going back because OF prohibition
laws and a fear that their tobacco
will 10 next Times are good In
Greece. Italy and other places now.
they say. and there is a big demand
fer help at home.
Promoters Of the Washington Wheat
Growers association, an organization
intended as a cooperative selling or
ganization for the producers, declared
that approximately a third Of d million
bushels of wheat are covered by con
tracts already drawn with Washing
ton. Oregon and Idaho wheat growers
Construction of the Methow-okano-
gan irrigation project is feasible from
an engineering point of view, the state
reclamation board asserts In report
made public, In which plans for H.
nancing the project are formally out
lined. Construction, under present
conditions, would cost about $4,000
600, II Is estimated
Tacoma was the only one of the lead
ing northwest cities TO show a gain in
bank deposits during the last two
months Tacoma figures we're the
highest on record. the gain being $685.
500 from December 81 TO February 2s.
Continued activity in shlpbuilding,
shipping, general construction ard al
lied industries is Rscrlbed as the cause
for the showing.
The police judge Of Elma, ]. II,
Washington, has resigned at the de-
mand OF Mayor Crook, following the
acqu.ttal of Mr.. aud Mrs. Pete Her
mans OF Aberdeen. A. Miller and Mrs.
K. A. Robinson OF Elma on a dry law
violation charge. In the opinion Of
city officials and citizens familiar with
the circumstances OF the case the ac-
quittal was unjustifiable and Mayor
Crook demanded the resignation.
Or. r. F. Nader, director Of general
college extension at Washington State
college. left Tuesday for the east,
whore he will attend the national con
vention OF extension workers to be held
In Ann Arbor, Mich, April to 10.
on the trip he will deliver lectures at
tho educational institutions Of Idaho,
Colorado. Kansas, Illinois. Iowa and In
diana under the management OF tho
National University Extension assocla-
ton.
The $50 striking students OF the high
school at Chehrlis won their conten-
ton and returned to school Monday
morning. The school authorities after
conference with the strikers and their
parents. agreed that school activities.
including ATHLETICS, publication Of the
school paper and giving school play,
should be resumed as bsfore the strike.
The strike began Tuesday, when school
activities were suspended because is
stxdents had engaged In dance in the
high school building following rehears-
al for play.
Cargo shipments from Grays Harbor
for the first two months of the year
Indicated that the year may be I'M
usually heavy. In January and Feb
ruary 81 vessels cleared the harbor.
carrying 51,O0O,oO0 feet as against 40
vessels carrying 100000 feet for
the same months in 1919. Similar
improvement is noted in shipments
from willapa harbor, from which port
16 vessels, carrying 100000 feet,
cleared in the same months, as against
nine ships carrying 100000 feet in
the same months last year.
Report OF his investigation Of aetivi-
ties of the United States grcin cor
/ noro.ion In fha nnr+bvvaqt will ha