Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-09-09
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS or INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

s. Our Readers,
hoy C. Lyle, Seattle, one OF the
frat OF President Harding's federal
sppointees in the northwest, has as
sumed the duties OF federal prohibit
ton director for the state of Wash,
ington, displacing Donald A. MELON
aid, whose resignation has been in the
hands of tho department since
March /.
Tho long fight carried on by Cover
nor Hart to obtain the withdrawal OF
tho so-called sockeye salmon treaty
would seem to have been practically
terminated by tho announcement from
Washington, d, c., received by the
governor from Senator Jones, In which
the senator states that President Hard
ing will withdraw the salmon treaty.
A suspension bridge over the up.
per Lewis river or the Guler-Spirit
Lake trail has Just been completed
by the United States forest service.
The bridge Is 1872 feet in length, six
feet wide and Is suspended upon IL :.
inch cables 1t eliminates dangerous
ford on the Lewis river and makes the
Niggerhead country accessible as
sheep range. It Is in the Mount Adams
ranger district.
Lumber production in LOT mills In
western Washington and western Ore
gon was 2S per cent below normal for
the week ending August 10. according
to the report of the West Coast Lum-
bermen's association. The total pro-
duction amounted to 55,90S,4 400 feet.
The new business In this section dur
ing that time was totaled at 5S,404.S76
feet, while the shipments amounted to
e1.S27.379 feet
College Place at Walla Walla may
lose the headquarters of the upper Co.
lumbia conference OF the Seventh Day
Adventists. Churches in the confer
ence are now voting on the question
of moving headquarters to Spokane.
Judge Everett Smith in superior
court at Seattle signed an order tenn
porarily restraining the United Mine
Workers Of America for picketing or
Otherwise interfering" with property
of the Pacific Coast Coal company at
Newcastle.
Eight persns, one a woman, were
arrested at Tacoma and held in
the city Jail for investigation in con-
nection with alleged wholesale thefts
Of army goods from Camp Lewis, Loot
recovered by the police was estimated
to total more than $4,000 in value.
A new system of state and local tax
alton is to be urged by real estate men
Of the Pacific northwest, according
to a resolution adopted unanimously
at the annual convention of the In
terstate Realty association, held in
Paradise Valley, Rainier national park.
Roscoe Drumheller, collector of Gus
toms at Seattle. has announced that
he has forwarded his resignation TO
George B. Christian, secretary to the
president. Mr.. Drumheller, who is n
democrat, was appointed to the office
by President Wilson in the spring q
1914.
Needless Fretting.
Speaking of needless worries, we are
reliably Informed of a chap who fret
ted himself sick for two weeks because
he had swiped an umbrella in res
taurant. He went around growing
pale and kept looking over his shoul-
der on rainy days, fearing that the
owner might pop up. After the second
painful week of this sort of thing he
told his wife about 1t, and proposed to
send the umbrella to the police lost de
| partment
"Whatl" she screamed. "Why, you
boob this is the umbrella bought You
Christmas, and here are your initials
worked inside the covert"
1t had merely been travelling the