Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-10-14

ty Is S2,527,374 less in 1921 than 1t was
In 1920. Total assessed valuation of
the county Is 1904 ,S40,367.
The Church Manufacturing company
At Kennewick Is running at full ca
pacity and putting up 5000 to 1000
gallons Of grape juice daily.
DR.. 0. H. Holmes of Walla Walla
was elected moderator of the Wash.
lngton Congregational conference at
the close Of its annual session at
Everett.
John NJ. Boyle, United States
marshal from the Western district of
Washington, has turned in his resigna.
ton at the request of Attorney Gen.
eral Dausherty.
Mrs. Homer G. Osborne, "a, was
formally charged at Seattle with man.
slaughter in connection with the death
of an S-months-old baby girl that had
Leen entrustd to her care.
Forty-siX new homes, to cost on an
average more than $4,000 each, were
either begun in Spokane during Sep.
,ember or their construction authoriz-
ed by the city building inspector.
Because of jitney competitor, F. E.
Connors, general manager of the Spo.
lane & Eastern Railway G Power COM
pany, says abandonment of all street.
car service in Spokane is inevitable.
All cities in Washington state show
gain both in the number of manu-
featuring industries and in the value
of output from 1914 to 1919, accord
ing to a report of the census bureau.
The Northwest Electric company
has started work on second high
power line between Vancouver and
Camas. The new line will carry Co.
goo volts, and will parallel the old
line carrying 1000 volts.
Fifty residents living near the Walla
Walla dump grounds have filed suit in
superior court against the city ask
Ing $T6,500 damages each or total
of $3,S25,000. The residents declare
that the air is polluted by the refuse
from the city.
Railroad proposals to increase trans
continental freight rates on lumber and
forest products moving from Washing
ton, Oregon, Utah and Idaho to Ell
Paso, Tex, by % per cent were held
not justified by the interstate COM
MERGE commission.
Cranberry picking has just been
completed in Pacific county. The fine
weather permitted the harvesting to
be finished earlier than any time in
the history Of the industry. Crops are
generally good and good prices are
anticipated by the growers.
Japan is the best forsign customer
of the Northwest Wheatgrowers' asso-
citation, according to an announcement
made at Spokane by George C. Jewett,
general manager. More than half a
million bushels of wheat have been
shipped to Japan this year.
The Spokane branch of the National
Association of Letter Carriers may
eventually have home of its own, as
the will Of Thomas r. Jones, an ex-
carrier who left $4,000 estate, pro-
vides that the property go to that or.
Ganization on the death of his brother.
The death of two pioneer residents
Of Lewis county occurred last week.
Mrs. J. B. Plamondon, born in the
county on January 10, 1S45, died Mon.
day at her home in Vader. Mrs. David
Thrash, aged 6S, died Tuesday at Pc
Ell, where she had lived for many
years.
The record prune crop of Clarke
county is believed to have been raised
at the prune farm of B. o. Case, in
the Fruit valley section near Zelda.
There are SIS trees in the orchard,
and they produced 16 1-3 tons of dried
prunes, or 1861 pounds of fruit This
was said to be an average of about IS
pounds to tree.
Two persons concerned in the de.
Tense of James E. Mahoney, who is
facing the gallows for conviction of
the murder of his wife, we're arrested
at Seattle on charges of forgery and
grand larceny. Mrs. Dolores Johnson,
Mahoneys sister, was charged with
forgery Of the alleged signature OF
Kate Mahoney's name to a power OF
attorney by which Mahoney got access
to his wife's property, said to be
worth 100000. Mrs. Johnson and L.
d. Atkinson were accused jointly OF
grand larceny in another complaint.