Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-07
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

The 0.,35F boys conference for south
west Washington will be held in Kelso
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April
Z, s and Q. From 100 to $50 boys are
expected to attend.
A survey of the dairy industry of
Spokane to ascertain the cost of milk
production and to collect data gener-
ally on the dairy COW, will be made
by Washington State College
The Montesano cannery will not can
strawberries this year, according to
w. C. Mumaw, manager. He states
that the crop will not be sufficient to
any more than handle the fresh berry
market.
The Washington Coal Operators AS
ISOLATION will not open mines with
non-union labor or do anything for a
few days except take care of the
mines and "sit tight" in the nation,
wide coal miners strike, Commission
err ]. H. Wallace said
Mrs. Margaret Lindauer amputated
her own arm at her home at Richmond
Beach, suburb of Seattle, because
she told her 16-year-old daughter
Florence, a spirit commanded her to
do so. Mrs. Lindauer was taken to
hospital in critical condition.
The Washington Reclamation and
Development board has tentatively set
aside 100000 this year toward financ-
ing the diking of diking district No.
Is, Cowlitz county, which lies west of
Kelso. This district contains 1000
acres of exceedingly fertile river bot
tom land.
Eight tax reduction suits against
Grays Harbor county were settled out
of court with total reductions allow
ed totaling $S3,690. The outstanding
feature of most of the settlements was
that greater reductions than those ask
ed for in the complaints were allowed
in three cases.
Contract for the inter-county I'M
provement Of the Zenkner valley, ly-
ing partly in Thurston and partly in
Lewis county, by construction of a
drainage ditch, was awarded by the
county commissioners of the two coun-
ties to E. ]. Cheatham G Son of Spo-
kane, for $4,000.
That Washington has been invaded
by horde of professional safecrack-
ers, who have been driven out of the
east, was the declaration of l.. S. May,
president of the Northwest Associa-
ton of Sheriffs and Police, who has
sent out warning to every bank in
the northwest to be on the lookout.
A candidate for school director is
disqualified to sit upon the school
district election board, Attorney-Gen.
eral Thompson held in an opinion to
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, state
superintendent of public instruction,
but ii the candidate has already so
acted it does not invalidate the cleo.
ton.
Terms of the proposed settlement of
Spokane's traction problems, which
was reached through the mediation of
citizens committee, is on basis
of consolidation of the two local street
car systems, 6-cent ticket fare and a
7-cent cash fare, and elimination OF
jitney-bus competition at the end OF
the present year
Possession of liquor by wife, under
conditions which convinces the jury
that the liquor is held with intent &c
sell, constitutes possession by the hus
band and he may be convicted of pos
session of intoxicating liquor undel
the rule that he had the right to pre-
vent his wife from using their com
mon residence for an illegal purpose
the supreme court held IN afflrmlne
the conviction of Joe Arrigoni in tht
superior court of Kittitas county.
The logging industry of the state has
occupied more attention from the de
partment of safety during the sec
ond year of its existence than any
other industry. Nearly 1000 serious
accidents, of which 10S were fatal, oc
cured in the forests Of the west coast
according to the second annual report
of II. l.. Hughes, supervisor of safety
The bid of NJ. r. Smith Lumber &
Single company of Seattle was ac
copied by the Indian forest service al
Taholah for the 3O5 100000 feet Poin,
Granville Indian timber tract, placed
on the market three months ago. The
company's bid was: Cedar, $3.50
! thousand; spruce and fir, $2.25; white