Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-11-03

Walla Walla's total registration Is
$3.50. This is 800 less than two year.
ago.
John II, Bartlett. aged 81 who set
tied at Port Townsend in 1862, dice
Sunday in Seattle.
The first heavy snowfall of the sea
son was reported in the Cascade noun
tains west of ElIensburg.
registration of HOO in the Beling
ham normal school shows a gain Of
so per cent in the last two years.
Ground will be broken for Seattle's
new $2,SOO,OOO community and tourist
hotel, the Olympic, on or about
March 1.
After seven years trial it has beer
decided by the board of directors tc
remove the pool and billiard tables al
the Ellensburg Y. M. C. A.
The city of Cathlamet has secured
permit to appropriate the water Of
Cougar creek tributary of the Co
lumbia, for municipal water supply
Chelan is enjoying building boom
several residences being in course Of
construction, and more than $4,000
worth of cement sidewalks being laid
The Bellingham Tulip Festival as
ISOLATION has started campaign tc
raise $4,000 for spring festival next
May that will surpass that of last
May.
AS a result of price.cutting wa,
among distributors Seattle milk con
sumers began Monday to pay 10 cents
quart for milk, drop of 2 to 3
cents.
Following 10 months of continual
planning, the establishment of a Uni
ted States bureau of reconstruction
center at Fort Walla Walla now seems
virtually certain.
The new high school building al
Roosevelt, made possible by the con
solidation of three districts, will have
an auditorium and gymnasium fully
equipped by December l.
Following an order by the chief OF
police to arrest all undesirable per
sons, gamblers and bootleggers, Sc.
attic patrolmen made raid Saturday
night and gathered in 1913 men and
women.
Major Joseph e. Carberry, an of.
ficer at Camp Lewis, was made the
defendant in a $4,000 alienation suit
filed at Tacoma by R. 7. Britain, de.
partment manager of a large store in
that city.
man believed to be Robert Edgar
OF Bellingham, from papers in his
pocket, was found at Tacoma stagger-
ing in an alley with a bullet wound in
his stomach. He was taken to the
county hospital.
The Associated Oil company has
purchased for 100000 a seven-acre
tract fronting the East Waterway in
Seattle, upon which it proposes to con
struct a million,dollar wholesale oil
distributing plant.
While the agent was at dinner bur.
glars broke the lock in the office of
the Spokane & Eastern railway sta.
ton at Spokane, obtained S424.04, and
escaped without attracting attention
of the crowd in the station
l.. T. Murray Tacoma, was re.elect
ed president and George NJ. Cornwall
of Portland was elected secretary of
the Pacific Logging congress in SEES
sion at Tacoma. Spokane was chosen
as the next convention city.
Seven Canadian citizens were ar.
rested by j, r. Vail, immigration in.
spector at Belingham charged with
crossing the international boundary
line Illegally. Twenty-six arrests for
illegal entry were made by Vail last
week.
Henry Roberts, 2S, and Pat Sway,
56, alleged by federal officials to be
the head of an organized gang that
has obtained much money in the state
through representing federal prohibit.
ton officers, were arrested at la.
coma.
Request that he cancel his speak.
Ing dates in Washington on behalf
of the candidacy for reelection OF
United States Senator Poindexter was
sent to j. s. Davis, secretary of labor,
by officers of the Spokane Central
Labor council.
Eighteen Washington hospitals, al
Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Yakima,
Aberdeen and Walla Walla, are given