Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-20

ception given by Davenport CONNER.
cial club for the school teachers OF
that city.
A new discovery Of coarse placer
gold in the bed Of the Similkameen
river at Rich Bar is reported from
Oroville In Okanogan county.
Circling Lake Washington on an
all-paved road became possible last
week by the opening OF the new boule.
ward from Lake Forest park to Bothell
With the adoption of comprehen'
sive program for continued activity
the Washington state forestry confer.
ence closed its second annual session
at Seattle.
Mrs. W. r. Hyatt, her three chill
dren and Miss Woods, all of Clear
Lake, narrowly escaped death when
a huge tree fell across the road and
smashed the engine of their auto
mobile
fil'y otliis lHdt COst III all pTOu
ability at least $4,000 and which had
been captured since Sheriff Thomp
son OF Clarke county went into Of
flee, were destroyed by his deputies
at Vancouver.
AS a result Of either drinking poison
Gus moonshine or eating contaminated
beans, Mike Lenner, Charles Hansen
and a man named Brown are dead
at Okanogan. They died within few
hours of each other.
No empty boxcars from eastern raj
lines can reach the Pacific coast foi
at least 80 days, o. o. Calderhead
traffic expert of the Washington de
partment of public works, has ad
vised the department.
A trip de luxe" to Los Angeles
and return is offered by the Seattle
Transportation club, as the grand prize
in the second annual Pacific North
west Fruit exposition, to be held in
Seattle November II to 10.
Thirty-five tons of cabbage seed
grown by Frances Tillinghast of La
Conner, are awaiting cars for trans
portation to Detroit, where the Til
linghast Seed company has stand
ing order for their seed from year tc
year.
Depositors of the defunct Scandin
avian.American bank of Tacoma have
received the fourth dividend that has
been paid since the doors of the bank
were closed in January, 1921, This
makes 40 per cent of the amount on
deposit that has been returned.
The Aberdeen district school board
at a recent meeting, decided, after
a survey of conditions in the various
buildings, to ask the voters for bond
issue for the purpose of erecting sui
ficient buildings to relieve the con
gestion which is said to exist in every
rtIlOoi DuiiuihS III tlt Nlt.s
The water board of Bellingham has
ordered the hiring of a competent by
draulic engineer to make survey OF
Bellingham's present water system and
report on the ACCESSIBILITY of changing
the supply from Lake Whatcom tc
Skookum creek, eighteen miles dis
tant, at cost of $2,000,00O
Governors of all the states west Of
the Rocky mountains were invited by
! Governor Louis f. Hart to meet in &
conference in San Francisco Thurs
day, November 16, to consider a uni
form gasoline tax, uniform speed laws
and other matters, which Governo,
Hart believes should be the same il
all states.
After serving 1870 days in the Pa
cific county Jail and being held As day!
in the Pierce county jail pending trial
Leonard Creswell of South Bend,
logger, was sent back to the Pierc,
county Jail to serve another 50 day
and work out an additional $3.50 fin,
for the possession, manufacture AM
sale of liquor,
To avoid heavy loss and delay du
to the annual freshets in the Skagi
river and the difficulty of getting tow
out of the shoaling river, the Eng
lish Logging company and the Demr
sey Logging company, the two larges
concerns operating in the Skagi
valley, having their own logging roa
from Riverside, near Mount Vernon
to the camps above Hamilton, have dc
cided 10 abandon their dumps an
booms ". the Skagit and to NOV
their headquarters camp to Smilik ba!