Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-02-11

Washington has completed It's quota
OF $4,000 for the starving little ones
In Central Europe.
A TAX OF per cent on gross sales Is
proposed In bill introduced In the
Washington legislature.
Work of clearing the 4o.acre campus
for the new College Of Puget Sound at
Tacoma was begun last Monday.
The Grays Harbor Lumber COM
pany's mill at Hoqulam resumed oper-
atoms with one shift Monday morning.
The wage scale board for lumber
mills In the Hoquiam district has re.
duced common labor from 81 to $3.50 a
day.
The superior judges of King county
have petitioned the legislature for an
increase Of their salaries to $4,000
yearly.
The Chehalis city commission has
opened bids for the erection of con.
crete Jail. The structure will cost
nearly $4,000.
Phoenix Babcock, widely known
business man and resident of Tacoma
for 80 years, Is dead In that city,
aged rs years.
The month of January on Grays har-
Dor was very wet, but failed to break
rainfall records. During the month
1914 inches of rain fell.
Resolutions condemning the $4,000
overdraft in Pierce county have been
addressed to the legislature by the
club women Of Tacoma.
Pennsylvania wild turkeys are now
on their way to Grays Harbor for plac-
ing along the stretch of country along
the Quinault river bottoms.
The University of Washington has
accepted April 9 as the date for the
University of California Washington
crew race to be rowed at Berkeley.
Eli Ludevick, donkey engineer for
logging camp near Aberdeen, was
fatally burned when his engine turn
ed over and crushed him beneath it.
Narcotic drugs valued at $4,000 and
several hundred dollars worth of wills
key were seized by the police in
Spokane hotel and four men were ar
rested.
Wrapping paper found to contain a
solution OF cocaine was discovered as
one method OF conveying the drug to
victims of the habit in the Spokane
city Jail.
Owners of land in the Priest Rapids
district Of Yakima county have voted
In favor Of construction Of dam and
development of the proposed big pow.
er plant.
Walla Walla's net general debt was
reduced S45.930S1 in the II months
ending December 81, 1920, according
to report Just completed by the
state examiner.
Smith-Reynolds post, American Le-
gion, has started a movement to erect
permanent home at Vancouver at a
cost of $4,000, and is selling bonds
for that purpose.
Officials of the Seattle Building
Trades Council announce that that
body will resist the wage cut of 20
per cent announced by the master
builders last week.
Announcement is made at Seattle
that the Atlantic, Gulf G. Pacific
Steamship company will inaugurate a
new coast-to.coast service, starting
carly next month.
Mrs. Rose Tozer, 81, wife OF Albert
Tozer, retired capitalist and lumber
man, dropped dead while testifying
at prayer meeting at the First Bap-
fist church in Tacoma.
Governor Hart has authorized re.
ward of $500 for the arrest and con
viction OF the person or persons who
attempted to blow up the American
Legion building at Aberdeen last week.
Many of the crews laid off at the
Standifer shipyard in Vancouver dur
ing the past few months are being
taken back. Approximately 300 men
we're taken on the night shift last
week
Peter Colagino As, section hand,
was found guilty of first degree muir.
der at Seattle for the shooting on
December 10 Of Aleck McGibbon, a
shipyard foreman and father of 10
children.
W. II. Paulhamus, ex.state senator,
is being prominently mentioned for
the portfolio of secretary Of the in.
terror in President elect Harding's
cabinet, according to dispatches from
Washinaton.