Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-21
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

stranger VINO moved up ana uOWr
| Main street Wednesday and left worth
less paper amounting to hundreds OF
dollars behind him.
The 12,0O0-ton tanker Livingstone
Roe, built by the G. NJ. Standifer Con
struction corporation for the Standard
OIL company of New Jersey, was
launched at Vancouver Saturday.
Unless Aberdeen and Hoquiam mer
chants consent to lower prices or
necessities of life they will be forced
| to compete with cooperative stores
owned and operated by the Loyal LIE
gion Of Loggers and Lumbermen, ac
cording to an announcement made by
w. d. Smith, field secretary Of the
legion.
Spokane ranked as No. 101 among
cities of the United States on January
in amount OF postal savings depos
Its, according to announcement of the
postoffice department. Spokane's de-
pOSltS were Slo5,l4
Authorization of call for bids to be
opened January 20 for a 100000
block OF bonds of the s11,0O0,0O0 issue
provided for in the soldiers bonus act
has been made by the state board Of
finance at Olympia.
At a recent meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Far West Livestock COM
pany, recently organized at Centralia,
it was announced that the company
had made a profit of 33 1-3 per cent In
the last three months
Further showing the growth of Ia
coma and its financial position, that
city has gone from thirty-t third place
in the amount of postal savings on de-
post one year ago to the fifteenth city
in the United States.
Credit men of the states of Wash
ington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana
have been invited to attend the an
nual meeting of the Northwest Credit
Mems association to be held in Spo-
kane February 20 and "a.
After being declared by government
chemists to be unfit for food 1898
cases Of canned salmon at Seattle was
libeled by the federal government. The
salmon was shipped from Unakwik,
Alaska, to Seattle last August.
AT recent council of Yakima In
dams held at Toppenish, Francis A.
Garrett of Spokane, United States dis
trict attorney, was formally adopted
into the tribe and given the name of
Chilwit-Wop-Souk, meaning ct h e
| Dawn"
February "a has been set by the
state supreme court for hearing the
appeal Of seven I. w. W., convicted at
Montesano last March of second de-
gree murder for the killing OF Warren
o. Grimm, Armistice day victim, in
Centralia.
While at work cleaning away earth
from a slide on the Northern Pacific
tracks a mile west of Grays Harbor,
D. ]. Ferry and S. R. Reno, two work
men, were buried underneath and SO
badly injured they were taken to a
Hoquiam hospital.
Prices have been reduced by some
Of the larger restaurants of Spokane.
Cuts Of from to 10 cents an order
on ham and eggs, steaks, chops and
fish were noted on many restaurant
menus. Pie and other pastries were
also reduced an average Of cents an
order.
V. l.. Stevens OF the Seattle police
force is dead, Clayton Dodge, 81, al
legged outlaw, is expected to die and
Warren Mooney, 10, his companion, is
slightly wounded as the result of gun
battle in Ballard between police and
four alleged outlaws, all of whom were
captured.
Former State Senator George B..
Lamping, now member Of the Seattle
port commission, has announced that
the commission will seek passage Of
an amendment to the law creating port
districts, to make funds available for
constructing port facilities in free port
zones in case the federal government
should establish such free zones with
in the state.
An investigation OF contract work on
the Curtis street road, between Aber.
deem and Cosmopolis, paving of which
was completed two months ago by
the Aberdeen Paving company, was
ordered by the Aberdeen city council.
The road has not been opened to trai'
fic and city authorities alege that the
cement used in the Job was of so poor
quality that portions of the paving al
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