Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-04-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS or INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

OF licenses, rendered him by Governor
Hart.
Four battleships soon will arrive at
the Puget sound naval station for gen.
eral overhaulng The vessels are The
Arkansas, Wyoming, New York and
Texas.
With army and navy officers, pub
lie officials and others in attendance,
the United States scout cruiser Mil.
waukee was launched at the Todd ship
yards in Tacoma Friday,
Major-General Leonard Wood will
leave Seattle April . on the steamer
Wenatchce for Manila, whore he will
conduct an investigation relative to
Philippine claims for Independence.
State Treasurer Babcock has an.
nounced the appointment of r. d. Nc
Laughlin of Port Angeles as deputy
state treasurer, to have charge of the
license division of the treasurer's Of
flee.
The 1921 Spokane city directory
claims population of 10000 for "Spo.
kane and environs," the envrons in
GLIDING Hillyard, Yardley and Park.
water The 1920 federal census Of
Spokane was 1O4,437.
With delegates in attendance from
Vancouver, Kelso, Raymond, Castle
Rock and Chehalis, a southwest Wash
ington convention of Christian
churches was held at the First Christ.
ian church in Centralia
V. L. Bevington, chairman of the re.
publican central committee of Lewis
county, has been appointed Governor
Harris special representative in the
Olympic peninsula district, and has
taken over his duties there.
Louis Madsen, IS; Ward Daniels
IS, and C. A. Brown, 20, were sen.
fenced at Seattle to life Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary for the kill,
ing of Patrolman Volney l.. Stevens
In pistol battle January IA.
L. l.. French, state director of agri
culture has announced that the 1921
Washington state fair would open
September 10. He said he would ap
point state fair publicity secretary
as soon as he found the right man.
Frank R. Cole has applied to the
federal prohibition officers of Wash,
ington for a still to be placed in the
Ferry museum in Tacoma in company
with all the other relics gathered by
the Washington State Historical SO
ciety.
The Grays Harbor Railway & Light
company, which furnishes power and
car service for Aberdeen, Hoquiam
and Cosmopolis, suffered loss OF
$192191 in the operation of its com
pany for the month of February, &C
cording to report filed with the public
service commission.
Service was reduced and passenger
traffic on the municipal street rail
way lines in Seattle for the month Of
February decreased, compared with
the traffic for the preceding month, as
well as the corresponding month Of
last year, according to Il report of the
Governor Hart, has named the fol
lowing as delegates from this state &c
the 25th annual meeting OF the Ameri
can academy of political and socia
science at Philadelphia, May Is ant
IA: H. F. Alexander, Tacoma; C. w
tombstone, Ellensburg; w. w. Robert
son, Yakima; w. H. Cowles, Spokane
Charles r. Felt, Spokane bushes:
man, shot and killed himself wher
police detectives attempted to gair
entrance to his home to investigate The
disappearance of his wife. A searcl
Of the house failed, 1t was declared
to reveal any clew as TO her where
abouts. A 10.year-old daughter sur
wives.
Damages of s275,432 for alleged falls,
arrest were demanded by D. X. May
described as ex.secretary and majorit!
stakeholder of the Gibson Mining com
pany, with property in British Colum
bia, and his wife, in suit filed in su
perior court at Spokane against sever
men declared to be minor stakeholder
of the company.
Three army alrplanes will be uset
by the forestry department in photo
graphing and mapping the storm.swep
district on the olympic peninsula 70
the purpose of estimating the loss o
timber, The forestry department
places the timber loss at eight billion
feet, but 1t is believed by timber mel
the amount is greater.
The Washington directors of the Pa
cific Northwest Tourist association