Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-05-27
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

Soldiers of the Fourth medical regi
ment at Camp Lewis are raising
fund for tho relief OF Mrs. Karl A.
limbs. whose husband, a taxi driver
was murdered by four members Of the
regiment.
The military affairs committee Of
the Spokane chamber OF commerce will
start an immediate investigation into
conditions among ex.service men OF
spokane, receiving aid from the gov
eminent.
The Portland Railway. Light C Pow
er company has petitloned the Clarke
county commissioners for franchise
to place poles along the highways In
the county to extend Its light and
power lines.
Benton county's apple crop for 1921
Is estimated at 1900 to 1000 cars by the
district horticultural inspector. He es
Inmates a 80 per cent apple crop, a
10 per cent pear crop and 10 per
cent peach crop.
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest, on the charge of grand larceny
Of Thomas p. Fourier, president OF
the State Bank Of Black Diamond
which has been closed by the state
bank commissioner
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Gille
Of Walla Walla county has advised
the county commissioners that irregu
larities in the recent bond election
were not sufficient to set the unfav
orable result aside.
Unemployed men in Washington
have decreased 5000 in the last few
weeks, according to a report of the
federal employment agent. BY July l
It Is predicted, there will be no un
employment in the state.
John Bergquist old time prospectol
and miner, resident Of Chesaw for
many years was found dead in his
cabin on Copper mountain with the
top Of his head blown off. 1t was
evidently case Of suicide.
J. C. Pearson, early resident of Aber
deem and Grays Harbor county, first
prosecuting attorney for the Grays
Harbor district after the admission OF
Washington to statehood, died at Aber
deem. He was 80 years old.
A campaign to rid Spokane of the
I. w. w. has been undertaken by w
A. Goodwin Of Portland, formerly oil
Spokane. He asks the support of Spo
kane citizens in his drive, which he
states is being financed by himself
Word has been received at Seattle
that Stewart Edward White, author o.
Western fiction and outdoor stories
ia planning to pass the summer cruis
ing in motor boat along the inside
passage between Seattle and Alaska
1t was officially announced by A. w
Tracy of Duluth, Mimi, general sec
rotary, at dinner given to him by
the Walla Walla Commercial club, thai
the Roosevelt International highway
will be routed through Spokane, Col
fax, Pullman, Lewiston, Pomeroy, Day
ton, Walla Walla, Pendleton, Umatills
and Columbia river highway to Port
land.
Collection agency managers OF Wash
lngton and Oregon, numbering between
35 and 40, gathered for their third
semi.annual convention at the Pacific
Beach hotel at Pacific Beach Sunday,
f. F. Miles, a ranger living few
miles east of Woodland, armed with a
gun, drove his wife and two children
out of the house and then fled into
the mountains. Sheriff Hogget Is
searching the woods for him.
Government trails are being opened
and telephone lines rebuilt into the
upper Quinault basin, the mountains
and the Queets country by a forest
ranger and three crews of men. The
work will occupy month or six weeks.
Commercial bodies Of Grays Harbor
county will be asked to take an active
part in campaign launched by the
Aberdeen chamber of commerce to Sc
cure fultlllment of federal promises of
deep.sea dredge for the Grays har.
Dor bar.
Federal Judge Cushman, in mem.
orandum decision, held illegal tax
assessment of s54,3O4.9O on soya bean
oil In transit from the far east. The
tax was charged on March / against
the Proctor & Gamble company, while
the oil was in Seattle.