Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-05-20

| mortgage luT SOUu,OUU,UUU Was
filed in the office of the Clarke county
auditor by the Great Northern rail
way company. The First National
Bank of New York city is furnishing
the money.
Voluntary wage reductions OF 81 4
day for city work and 50 for outside
work have been voted by the Spokane
plasterers' union The new scale woult
call for SO a day for city work and ST
for outside work.
Northwest headquarters OF the war
risk insurance bureau, employing ISL
persons, occupying 100 office rooms
and with monthly payroll of $40,
900, has been ordered removed from
Seattle to Tacoma.
Madge Anne Sawyer, whose sec0n,
trial on a charge Of killing her hus
band, Howard I. Sawyear, last year
was held in superior court at Seattle
was acquitted by the jury of seven
women and five men.
About 100 wheat growers of Wash
ington and northern Idaho, comforting
in Spokane with representatives of the
United Grain Srowers, Inc, voted un
animously in favor of compulsory pool
ing Of wheat for marketing.
A verdict of guilty was returned In
superior court in Spokane against P
Give Heddle, charged with negligence
in connection with three deaths when
the automobile he was driving crash
ed into street car March IS.
Walter F. Evans of Sequim, aged 10
is held at Seattle on a manslaughter
charged following the death of Emman
uel Russo, Fort Flagler soldier, from
injuries received in "a four-round box
ing contest at Port Townsend.
The University Of Washington debat
ing team defeated the University Of
Oregon team at Eugene, Ore, in an in
tercollegiate contest, Washington TAX
ing the negative side of the question
The decision was two to one against
Oregon.
DR.. Yancy C. Blalock of Walla Walla
died in that city after three days i'll
ness from pneumonia resulting from
cold contracted while attending the
annual conclave Of the Washington
commandery of the Knights Templal
in Seattle.
The 59th coast artillery regiment
at Camp Lewis will sail from Tacoma
on July for Fort Mills, Philippine
Islands, according to orders received
at the headquarters Of the 31st coast
artillery brigade from the war depart
ment at Washington.
A resolution asking that immediate
attention be given by the interior de
partment to the reclamation of arid
lands was adopted by the executive
board Of the Interstate Realty asso
citation in session at Walla Walla and
telegraphed to Washington, D. G.
The University of Washington wo
mems debating team defeated the team
of the University Of Oregon at Seattle
arguing the affirmative on the Ques
ton that the United States maintain
policy of opposition to Japanese in
reference with Chinese sovereignty.
Twenty-three members of the crew
OF the auxiliary schooner Kamchatka,
which was burned at sea about 500
miles off the coast Of Alaska on the
night of April A. arrived in Boiling
ham on the steamship Catherine D OF
the Pacific.American fisheries fleet.
| Sea Beach Canning company made
pack at It's Copalis plant last Sat
urday of 1881 cases, the largest pack
this year and one Of the largest made
at the plant. All the canneries on
Grays Harbor are working overtime
since the advent of warmer weather
and better tides.
Lumber shipments from Grays Har
Dor mills, both rail and cargo, show
ed an increase during April as com
pared with the preceding month, ac
cording to figures given out by the
mills. The shipments totaled 55726,
900 feet, an increase of 1S,O44,OOO feet
over the preceding month.
The United States army transport
Buford sailed from Seattle for Homo
lulu, bearing the 55th regiment of thu
coast artillery from Camp Lewis, to its
new two.year station at Fort Kane
hameha of the Pearl harbor defenses
Honolulu. The regiment comprises
$50 men and 20 officers, in command
Of Lieutenant.C Colonel Edwards,