Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-09-23
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WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Bids for Sl,l25,O0O worth Of bonds
issued by Seattle school district No.
under authorization of July 20, 1919
from the state of Washington, and
four groups Of bonding houses, have
been accepted,
Walter Stevens, who was burned to
death in an airplane ut Cleveland,
Ohio, last week, was formerly resi-
dent Of PasCo. He was chief Of police
in 1918 and 1914. Since the war he
had been an air mail pilot
Reward of $1,000 has been offered
by Mrs, II. A. Cunningham of,Tacoma
for the capture OF George r. Stage,
former Seattle newspaper man, or the
return Of his 22.months.old baby
whom Stage Is accused of kidnapping
Three thousand minors will strike
In Washington Thursday morning un.
less the operators agree to make the
new wage increase retroactive to Au.
gust l6, according to announcement
from the headquarters of district No
10, United Mine Workers.
Contracts for the purchase OF 10000.
900 feet of Douglas fir timber for use
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad in the construction of cars
buildings and bridges, will be let to
northwest mills this week, A. E. Camp.
bell. purchasing agent of the road
announced.
Two fishing vessels, the Northwest
ern No. 2 and the Oregon City, are
held by United States authorities in
Seattle following their seizure near
Discovery bay Saturday afternoon by
the coast guard cutter Arcata when a
quantity of liquor is said to have be"n
found aboard each.
Hundreds of veterans Of the 91st
("Wild West"l division from all
parts of the west will gather in Seat
tie this week for the first annual re.
union Of that organization. The re
union will open Saturday, September
%, the eve of the anniversary of the
beginning of the Meuse-Argonne drive,
in which the 9lst took part.
William G. Vest and John G. Mont
gomcry, federal prohibition enforce
ment officers, will be tried in federal
court at Spokane on charges of man
slaughter In connection with the death
of Ernest e. Emley, United States Dis.
trict Judge r. H. Rudkin decided. The
officers are alleged to have shot and
killed Emloy near Keller, May %,
while attempting to arrest him.
The tallest smokestaCk on Grays
Harbor and perhaps tie largest on
the coast has been completed at Ho-
quiam. 1t is built of brick and towers
$50 feet above the Grays Harbor mill
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Installation of the two new Wickes
boilers, which cost about SOS 600. The
boilers will supply power for electric
generators to give part of the current
to the Grays Harbor Railway & Light
company.
a new pront-snarlng pan Tor EN-
ployes of lumber mills, known as the
shop committee plan, designed to sup
plant the Loyal Legion OF Loggers and
Lumbermen and the Timber Workers
unions, has been introduced into the
lumber industry Of the inland empire.
Mill employees, under the new plan,
are rewarded for faithfulness to the
company and receive portion of the
profits over a percentage for the com
pany, the theory being that employees
directly interested in the success of
the mill will increase the efficiency
and income of the pant.
In the pockets of Bert Basnett, a
logger held by the Seattle police for
federal investigation, was found q fl
nancial statement of the l. W. W, for
Tie northwest ulsITlCl' Inc sldLSulehl
showed that more than $4,000 was
collected during July by the defense
committee, of which more than $1,000
was paid to lawyers for defending
members, and which, If all bills were
paid, would be oyerdrawn $197.72.
During the month $39,44S.41 was col
lected by the cooperative bail and
bond committee. of which $1I85743
was spent, the statement shows.