Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-02
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

partments, were proposed IN the civil
service commissions salary revision
| report, submitted to the Seattle coun-
Gil.
The state supreme court has sus-
| tanned the Thurston county superior
court in reversing an order OF the
public service commission, now the
| department OF public works, for a
| physical connection between the lines
of the Milwaukee and Northern Pacific
in Centralia.
The department Of public works has
taken under advisement an application
to operate a stage line between Ia
coma and Portland, Companies run
ming buses between intermediate
points bitterly contested the applica-
ton. Representative OF the railroad
also protested.
Two were killed and a third wound
ed dangerously in shooting row in
Seattle. Mrs. Anna Pearce, whose
husband, William Pearce, was sup
posed to be longshoreman in Port
land, was shot by Pat Leahy, who also
killed himself and dangerously wound
ed Tom Lynch, who is not expected to
live.
Four cougars in one night and morn
ing of stalking and perseverance re-
warded John Bunch, well-known Quin-
ault rancher, trapper aud nimrod re-
Gently, according to letter NJ H. Null
key, special deputy game warden, has
written F. w. Matthias, game commits.
soner in the western part of Grays
Harbor county.
Two men, unmasked, boarded the
observation car on the North Coast
limited train on the Northern Pacific
railroad in the station in Spokane and
robbed the passengers OF money and
valuables. The robbers left the train
before ii had cleared the yards. The
robbery was committed in full view of
station employees and passengers.
As one result of the late storm Nor
ton and the remainder of eastern
Lewis county served by the Morton
Telephone company very likely will
be without full telephone service for
month, and judging from appear
anCes of the railroad wires along the
Morton branch of the Milwaukee, It
likely will be almost as long before
full service is resumed to the outside.
New and lower rates the transcon-
tinental railroads have agreed to es-
tablish ON lumber shipments from the
north Pacific coast to the Atlantic
coast and points in eastern territory
probably cannot be made effective be-
fore January !, according to supple
mentary advices received by James
R. NeitCh OF Seattle. assistant general
traffic manager of the Milwaukee rail
road.
Equipment of the Westport radio
station is being dismantled prepare.
tory to shipment to Bremerton and
the station will be abandoned at least
for the present. The station was one
OF string built along the Pacific
/ coast and was completed last April.
A few months after completion the
compass station was destroyed and
the station was ordered abandoned
temporarily for lack OF money to re-
build it.
Rate reductions that will give Sc
attic and Tacoma distinct advantage
over other Pacific coast ports in the
building up of trade with Hawaii, for
the time being at least, were announc-
Cj by the Milwaukee railroad Taking
the initiative and acting independents
ly of the other transcontinental roads,
the Milwaukee declared its intention
to establish at once rates lower than
the domestic rates on long list OF
commodities shipped to its Puget
sound terminals for export to Hawaii.
The United States coast guard pa.
troll boat Arcata has been equipped
with a new one-pound rapd-flring gun
and is now better prepared to check
the smuggling of liquor from British
Columbia to points on Puget sound In
speedy power boats. Large Quanti-
ties Of liquor have been landed or the
Olympic peninsula and then transfer.
red to Seattle, Tacoma and Portland
in automobiles. All OF the highways
are being closely guarded by prohibit
tion officers. State officials are plan
ming to place several fast power boats
In commission to patrol the waters Of
Puget sound, which will make rum
running more hazardous.