Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-05

The Morton Coal & Coke company
has opened a vein of bituminous coal
at its mine, one mile northwest Of
Morton. The vein measures IL feet
in thickness, with seven feet of solid
coal Of coking grade,
The White Salmon, Husum and
Trout Lake road in Klickitat county
will receive $4,000 federal aid funds
for this years Improvement of 16 miles
of highway, it was announced by the
bureau of public roads.
Contract for 400 cords of 4.foot first
growth fir wood, to be supplied at the
I state school for blind at Vancouver,
was awarded by the state department
of business control to S. *. Howell of
Vancouver at price of 1925 a cord.
Posing as police officers, three rob-
bers forced their way into an apart
ment occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. D..
Keith, in Seattle, bound and gagged
the two occupants and escaped with
diamonds valued by the owners at
s14OO.
Aberdeens natural natatorium, a
pool of fresh running water, slightly
warmed by steam from the Grays Har-
Dor Railway Light company's plant
on Fry creek, has been completed By
the Aberdeen Rotary club and is ready
for the youngsters.
Hans Frederick Kurth of Tacoma,
who obtained American citizenship in
1918, but later fought in the German
army during the world war, was or
dered deported to Germany at the con-
clusion of hearing before immigra,
ton officials in Seattle.
After celebrating but 30 minutes
the jury at Port Orchard in the case
of Mrs Ruth Plumley, charged with
poisoning her husband, Hugh c. Plum
| ley, reached a verdict of guilty in the
first degree. Mrs. Plumley was i'm
mediately sentenced to life imprison'
ment.
The Wenatchee District Cooperative
association added two warehouses to
its string last week, when the associa'
| tion purchased at receivers auction
| the two houses in Omak, formerly be
| longing to the Omak Warehouse
Storage company. The price was
| s30,5O0.
Former Chief Justice Angelotti, Ct
the California supreme court, is due
f, this week to begin a state tour with
NJ. ]. Mallard, secretary of the Wash
ington Bar Association, to interest
lawyers in the convention of the
| American Bar Association, to be held
In San Francisco August 8 to II.
Herman V. Tartar, assistant profes
cor Of chemistry at the university OF
Washington, and Mrs. Zalia jerks Gal
ley, also member of the university
! faculty, are in serious condition at
the university infirmary as the result
of being overcome by chlorine gas dur
Ing laboratory class at the univer
sity
Motion that the Puget Sound Tele
phone company of Everett be required
to increase siX-fold the number of tele
phones allowed its subscribers for the
monthly minimum charge, under the
measured service plan being tried out
In that city, was filed with the depart
meat of public works by r. J. Faucet
as attorney for the city of Everett.
An examination for certification OF
public accountants will be held May
IS and 10 at Olympia under the direc
ton of the state license department
Better times are in sight for the
metal trade industries of the country
according to reports of county and
state district officials of the United
Metal Trades association of the Pacific
coast at the 18th annual convention
of the organization, held in Seattle
About 60 delegates attended the con
vention.
Tax ratios to gross interstate oper
ating revenues of privately.owned pub
lie utilities of the state for the veal
ending December 81, 1920, averaged
15,1 per cent according to returns
compiled by the tariff division of tn,
state department of public works, To
tai operating revenues from strict!
interstate business of all such utilities
amounted to S79,215,S06.31, according
to the annual reports of these utilities
while the same reports show take
paid totaling s11,965,74260.
Initial steps for the construction o
u beltline railway around the Tacomi
tide flats to serve the industries there