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

ant, whose audit of the office OF the
Seattle police secretary revealed al
legged Irregularities which resulted In
Captain Charles Sullivan being sus-
pended, has been placed In charge Of
the secretary's office. Mayor f. j.,
Brown ordered all other persons OK
cluded from the office and that no pa.
pers be removed.
William w. Haines, "a years old,
said to be one OF the Oldest pioneers.
in the Pacific northwest, is dead at
the home of his daughter in Seattle.
He crossed the plains in 1852, settling
in Coos county, Oregon.
Industrial activity is greater and EN-.
ployment conditions in the northwest
better than they have been for nearly
two years, according to report by J.
H. Shields, superintendent of the Seat
tie city employment office.
Bonds of individual members of the
when the State Bank at Stanwood was
looted last fall, have been recovered in
their entirety, it was announced The
bonds, valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000, were in safe deposit boxes found
The Great Northern freight yards at
Burlington are to be enlarged, work
beginning July l, at an estimated cost
of 100000. More than mile of new
track will be laid. Increasing freight
business was given as the reason for
the improvement.
The minor son of John C. Bird ST.,
who was killed in the war, is entitled
to receive the bonus from the state
that would have gone to the father had
he lived, despite the fact that the
mother, guardian of the child, was di.
vorced from the father prior to his en-.
try into the service, Assistant Attor.
ney General Dunbar has held.
Longshoremen and stevedores in this
SL'tLc are HuN uHucl Iie stuIe lHuu5lIl-
al insurance act and entitled to COM
pensation for injuries received while
working on ships doing either state
or interstate business, according to
Major E. S. GILL; head of the state in
dustrial insurance division, who re.
ceived copies of the recent federal act.
"The outlook for the Columbia basin
project was never BETTER" Congress-
man ]. Stanley Webster reported on
his arrival in Spokane, on a vacation.
Mr.. Webster said that according to
present plans, he will father a bill in
the house, creating federal commits
sion to investigate the project, with
an appropriation of $150OOO, for pre-.
liminary work.
The supreme chancellor Of the
Knights of Pythias of the world, and
the grand chancellors of both Oregon
and Washington, and many other
grand lodge officers, will be in Van
couver August &c, at which time
ground will be broken for the Pythian
home to be built at Main and Thirtieth
streets at cost Of 100000 or more.
The site has been bought and is be.
ing prepared for breaking of ground,
At the pioneer picnic at Wilbur
there was an exhibit of winter wheat
grown on John Campbelps farm, II
miles north of Wilbur, which stands
40 inches and the heads are well filled.
Joe Beuzer and A. A. Pesch are
building a three.story 36.room frame
apartment house 80 by so feet at the
Great Northern yard south Of Wenat.
chez, where sl,OO0,0O0 worth of i'm.
provemcns are being made. The build
ing will cost $1,000.
Governor Hart has explained that
having no authority from the leglsla.
ture to accept the provisions Of the
Sheppard.Towner act, he could not
comply with the numerous requests
from parent.teacher associations In the
state in this matter He called atten-
ton to the fact, however, that this lack
of authority does not prevent the state
from receiving tho appropriation for
this year, as the appropriation will not
lapse until June, 1923,
Telechronometers will continue to
tick off the conversations OF Everett
telephone users until the department
OF public works completes it's investi-
cations, fixes the valuation of the
Puget sound telephone company and
determines rates that should be charg.
ed for measured talk, the department
entering an order denying the motion
of the city of Everett to discontinue
the use OF telechronometers pending
completion of the Investigations $780,