Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-10

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Hugh G, Hamilton was arrested at TIA
coma and plot to flood the Pacific
coast with counterfeit bills was nippcd
in the bud,
Three men were possibly fatally In.
jured In riot AT Seattle, said by the
police TO have been caused by an at.
tack by marine strike sympathi2crs
upon three members of the crew OF
the steamship West Jappa as they were
leaving their vessel,
Mrs. Julia l.. Thompson OF Seattle
was reelected to serve her fourth term
as president OF the Columbia river dis
trict of the Women's American Baptist
foreign mission society at the closing
business sessions OF the golden jubilee
of the organization at Seattle.
No general reductions In freight or
passenger railroad rates viii be made
following, the reduction OF wages Of
railroad workers scheduled for July
l, according to statements made at
Spokane by II, B. Earllng, vice presl.
dent of the Milwaukee railroad.
The Portland Bridge & Iron Works
bid successfully for the construction
of a new steel bridge across the Kllckl-
tat river between Goldendale and Glen.
wood, town in the Mount Adams
country. The specifications call for a
15O-foot pin span bridge with ap-
proaches.
Though n strike Of diggers and un-
favorable weather hampered operations
during the Grays Harbor clam season,
which closed last week, It is estimated
that of approximately $4,000 cases of
clans packed on the Pacific coast this
season, the harbor district has packed
10000 cases.
A competitive examination to fiji
5000 vacancies In the rank OF second
lieutenant in the regular army will be
held August 90, according to informa-
ton received at the offices of the ad-
jutant.general. All men possessing
proper qualifications between the ages
OF q and 30 years are eligible to take
these tests.
Sheriff NJ. NJ. Warner and his depu.
ties of Klickitat county, were busy last
week gathering in sheep herders, own
ers and packers charged with trespass
on lands in the Simcoe mountains
while trailing their flocks through to
summer pastures on the Columbia ma
tional forest reserve in the Mount
Adams country.
Disabled veterans of the Seattle dis
trict. comprising Washington, Oregon
and Idaho, are being asked to vote on
their choice for summer camp out
ing near Port Townsend, or cruise
TO Honolulu or Alaska, it was an
nounced by the federal board of voca-
tional training. There are 27O0 dis
abled veterans in the district
The burning of brush on farms in
the foothills of the Simcoe mountains
near Goldendale was prolonged this
year until the last few days of the
closing season for burning without per-
mits, which ended June l, and the
fires have burned so fiercely and have
spread SO rapidly that the country has
been surrounded by haze Of smoke
such as occurs In the late summer.
Action to compel reductions In hotel
rates in Washington, Oregon and Brit
lsh Columbia, where wartime prices
are maintained was indorsed at the
23d grand council of the Northwest
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
lea in session at Spokane. A recon-
mendation urging the restoration of
the pre-war railroad mileage book,
good on all roads at a reduced rate,
also was passed,
Suspension for one year of the H.
cense of Captain H. H. Marden, pilot
of the steamship Governor, which was
rammed and sunk off Point Wilson,
April l, with the loss of eight lives,
announced by the Seattle board of the
United States steamboat inspection
service, disposed of the last of the
charges brought against officers of the
Governor in connection with the in
vestigation of the disaster.
Halibut catches landed in the port
of Seattle for May broke records for
the year, according to representatives
of the Fishing Vessel Owners asaocia-
ton of Seattle, One hundred and
thirty-nine catches were brought to
Seattle in the month, the largest mum.
Der for similar period this year. The
biggest catch was landed Ly .ha
schooner La Paloma, which 'qndod 49,
900 pounds of halibut May Is.
The largest funeral pyra to the men,
tory Of John Rarleycoru since nation
wide prohibition went iu,o effect, ac-
cordIng to customs officers, was cele-
bratcd at Blaine when whisky esti-