Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-11-24
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF Interest
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Three elections will be held at Van.
couver Saturday, December 2, when the |
city, school district and port will elect
officials.
Puget Sounds salmon pack for 1922
totals 237 40 cases, it was announced
by Ernest Seaborg, state supervisor of
fisheries. A case contains forty.eight
pounds.
II. A. Fay, construction foreman OF
the new planning mill at the L. B, Men.
eiee Lumber company plant at Win
lock, fell from Il staging and broke his
neck, dying few minutes afterward
Seattle Elks, already owning and oc
cupying a 100000 temple, completed
In 1914, are about to improve the adj.
joining property by the erection of a
building estimated to cost Sl,100,0O0
That the cranberry exhibit Of Pa
cific and Grays Harbor counties at
tracted large attention at the north
west fruit show in Seattle is reported
by Robert Cowan Grays Harbor coun-
ty farm agent.
Ellensburg normal won the normal
school football championship of the
state of Washington at Cheney, by de.
feating Cheney normal, Is to 10. El.
lensburg had previously defeated Bel.
lingham normal.
The campaign in Washington to
have a 40-mill tax limit on so per
cent property valuation was carried
to Vancouver when prominent citizens
Of Seattle addressed meeting of Van.
couver taxpayers.
Spokane valley won the district
sweepstakes, highest award of the Pa.
cific Northwest Fruit Exposition at
Seattle, in a field OF eight, represent.
ing all important apple.raising dis
tricts of the state.
Thirty-four persons have met death
in automotive accidents alone in Seat.
tie since January l, according to fig.
ures taken from the coroner's chart of
fatalities. In King county 50 died as
the result of injuries.
Architects plans for n 100000 mensl
dormitory for Whitman College at
Walla Walla have been received and
contractors Of the northwest are in,
vited to submit bids for the structure.
to be erected next spring.
Disbarment proceedings before the
state board of law examiners have been
initiated against William B. Mitchell,
Spokane attorney. Mitchell is charged
with violation of confidence and acts
involving moral turpitude.
A fifty-year franchise has been
granted to the Wala Walla Valley rail
way to construct line three and a
third miles in length branching from
College Place, to run through fruit
and garden land south and west of
Walla Walla.
With orders for As carloads of
Christmas trees, S. w. Porter of Eva.
line has started his cutting crews to
work Telling the greens. He has or
ders from as far east as Kansas City,
where the Washington trees are in
much demand.
The Camp Lewis public auction sale
of surplus government goods, valued
at several million dollars, is now in
progress. But a small fraction of the
cost of the goods is being received.
Those in charge estimate that goods
are selling at about Is per cent OF
original cost.
flying at height of 5000 feet, at Seat
tie, got from under control and started
to crash to earth, Lieutenant Frank II.
Tyndall United States army pilot.
leaped in a parachute and escaped
with only slight scratches. The plane
was destroyed.
Sheriffs and police of northern
Washington are securing the district
for cracksmen who blasted open the
vaults of the Concrete Drug company
at Concrete, escaping with cash, lib
erty bonds, stamps and negotiable Sc.
curities worth $4,000, and other loot
valued at $4,000. :
Close to S6,OOO,OOO in Clarke county
property is tax exempt according to a
statement prepared by County Asses.
sor Eddings. This is the assessed val.
uation, and the market value is much
greater The valuation of real and
personal property which is taxable is,
about S16,OOOOOO
The state department of public
works has ordered the Great Northern
railway to cancel the departments or.
der of November s, giving priority in
refrigerator loading to Jonathan. De.
licious, Wagner and Grimes Golden,
the early apple varieties which we're
congostlng the Wenatchoe warehouses.