Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-02

construction has been started at
Hoqulam on 4 Single mill with daily
capacity of 100000 shingles with its
five machines, by the North Western
company.
For the first time in many years
cougars have come to the settled por-
tons of the territory near Wcnatchee
and are reported to be killing sheep
and cattle.
Women OF Grays Harbor county held
a clearing house for Christmas pres
ent ideas at a meeting of the clothing
project leaders of the county in Mon
tesano Tuesday.
Application has been filed with post
office officials for new parcel post
car for Walla Walla. The increase
in incoming traffic has been COO per
cent in four years.
Because of an epidemic Of rabies,
the state board of health has ordered
that all dogs in the territory north OF
the Yakima river in Benton county
shall wear muzzles.
Third place among all Jersey cows
in the United States for nor age was
won for the year ended in October by
Cowslip's Coquettc, owned by Phil 4.
Dunford Of Gle Fun.
The Adam Brown Packing company,
incorporated few months ago at Spo-
kane, will begin work early in the
spring on three story fireproof pack
Ing house to cost 100000
In attempting to start a gasoline
pump by warming the engine with
blow torch, Samuel McCauley, aged 10,
was burned to death at Spokane by the
explosion of the gas tank.
Frank Hanford, IS, resident of Sc
attic for more than half century and
prominent in business and political
circles, died at his home on Stretch
island, near Olympia, Sunday.
Typographical surveys of timber
land purchased by the Long-Bell Lum-
Der company, in western Cowltz and
Lewis counties, has been completed
and the field parties disbanded.
Banks and bond houses of Spokane
and Seattle have taken the $3.50, 600
block of Spokane county bonds for
1922 road work at a differential of
only $1,000 on the entire $3.50, 600 issue.
Total wheat receipts from Washing
ton and north Idaho members received
at the Spokane office of the Northwest
Wheat Growers, Associated, were g.
159,649 bushels, according to figures
announced.
To aid in building needed homes,
building and loan association has been
organized by 80 business men of We
natchee with 100000 authorized cap
ital, of which more than $4,000 has
been subscribed.
A bullet embedded in the brain of
H. R. (Micky) Quinn, aged 80, marine
fireman, was successfully removed by
physicians in the Seattle city hospital
and Quinns condition is said to be
steadily improving.
Fred S. Stimson, resident of Seattle
for the last 80 years, owner of the
famous Hollywood farm and other ex-
tensive holdings in the northwest, died
suddenly in his apartment OF an at
tack of heart disease.
Confessions of four men held in the
King county jail resulted in the recov-
cry of an automobile ard more than
$4,000 worth of loot alleged to have
been obtained from robbcries of six
stores in that county.
Internal revenue officers took pos.
session Of the drug store OF Walter
Anderson in Seattle and sold its con-
tents at auction for $475 on a warrant
for dlstraint for $4,000 taxes. Last
Monday a jury acquitted Anderson OF
violating the national prohibition act
by selling high-power orange extract.
Women employed in manufacturing
industries in Washington will be paid
$500 a week, instead of the $12
recommended at recent wage con-
ference, according to an order issued
by the industrial welfare committee.
A husband was valued at S641650 by
jury at Walla Walla which heard the
case of Florence Leroy against Mary
Harmon. Mrs. Leroy accused Mrs.
Harmon OF alternating the affections Of
her former husband. Ed Leroy, and
asked $35,O00
General reductions in the salary
classification of municipal employees,
especially in the lower grades, and in