Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-11-03
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FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

places OH the approved" list in tn,
fourth annual report of the America,
College of Surgeons, just made pub
lie at Boston.
New construction costing about $751;.
900, which will increase the output of
the plant about 25 per cent, will be
completed this week at the Canyon
Lumber company's plant at Everett.
The Tacoma municipal street car
line came within $533.7S of breaking
even with all its actual expenses in
September, according to the report
sent the city council by Controller
Roberts. This is the best showing
ever made by the line.
Bears have been unusually plenti.
full in Pacific county this fall and
have been doing heavy damage to
farmers by killing cows, calves, sheep
and pigs. They have also gone after
bee hives, eating all the honey and
damaging swarms of bees.
Women employed in state, county
or municipal institutions are subject
to the eight-hour day law for state,
city and county employees, John H,
Dunbar, assistant encouragement, ad,
vised Mrs. Delphine NJ. Johnson, su-
pervisor of women in industry.
Charles Hebberd, chairman OF the
republican state committee has an
nounced that Immediately after Janu.
airy l he will appoint an executive
committee to begin and carry forward
the work preparatory to the presiden.
tial and state campaigns of 1924
Aberdeen was the mecca Saturday
night of Ancient Order of United
Workmen members of southwest
Washington lodges. Nearly 800 of.
ficers and delegates of the district
lodges assembled for the periodical
district convention of the organization.
Declaration that there will be no
cancellation of the eleven thousand
millions of dollars in debts that are
owed by the European nations to the
United States on loans made during
the war" was made by James j. Davis,
secretary of labor, in an address at
Spokane.
Assistant State Forester Goodyear
incurred compound fracture of his
left arm, just below the shoulder, and
nearly lost his life by being choked,
and two other state officials and G. j.
Joy of Seattle, chief of the Washington
forest fire association, were bruised
and cut when a state-owned auto in
which they were going to Tacoma was
run down and overturned at Camp
Lewis by an army car driven by Ser
geant Homer l.. Hayes.
Production of lumber mills of the
northwest for the week ending Octo
Der q was per cent above normal,
according to the weekly lumber re-
view of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association. New business was % per
cent below production and shipments
l per cent below new business. One
hundred and siXty-one mills reporting
TO the association manufactured no.
215,O13 feet of lumber, sold S2,533, 100
feet and shipped S1,417272 feet.
Harry Brolaski, known as the king
of American bootleggers, underwent
an operation for cancer in Tacoma in
a final effort to regain his health
So weak was the man whose amazing
traffic in liquor in California startled
the entire country that he was practi.
cally without guard. He Is under sen.
tence to serve two years at Mcneil
island for violation of the Volstead
act He has been in the hospital
in Tacoma for the last two weeks, TAX.
ing continuous radium treatments.
Brolasl,i is eX.mayor of Redondo, Cal,
and wealthy.
Appeal from the decision of the
supervisor of industrial insurance
denying her claim for her husbands
death was filed in superior court at
Olympia by Mrs. Matte Brooks, widow
of James Brooks. who was shot and
killed by John Campbell, cook III
Mason county logging camp last
spring. Mrs. Brooks claim for indus
trial insurance was denied by Super.
visor Gill on the grounds that Camp.
bell had been acquitted Of murder on
the plea of selfdefense and that
Brooks was the AGGRESSION In the alter.
cation between himself and Campbell
which preceded the shooting.