Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The annual meeting OF the Wash
ington state chamber of commerce
will he held in Tacoma December 5.
improvements totaling about $4,000
will be made at Wala Walla imme.
diately by the Standard Oil company. :,
%, Tankuary, in the presence of his
wife and after he had threatened to
take her life, shot and killed himself
at Monroe.
Milk received by Vancouver con.
sumers will advance in price from 10
cents a quart to " cents, dairymen
have announced.
Alvin NJ. owsley, national command.
er of the American Legion, will visit
Tacoma post in January, ii was an.
nounced. Mr. Owsley, It was said will
make tour Of the Pacific Coast in
the interests Of the Legion
A 100000 bridge across the east
fork of Lewis river, on the Pacific
highway, is planned by the Washing.
ton state highway department accord.
Ing to Walter Schwarz, engineer. Con.
struction on the bridge is likely to be.
| gin next summer.
William r Reese of Hiawatha was
named by Edward Clifford, director of
labor and industries, to be chief de.
putty state mine inspector Mr.. Reese,
whose headquarters will be in Tacoma.
will have authority throughout the
state in the mining industry.
The proposed Washougal drainage
project will cost approximately $l19,,
600, according to n report prepared by
County Engineer Schwarz for the
Clarke county commissioners Hear.
ing on the establishment of the drain.
age district will be held December 2.
After horribly hacking his wife to
| death with an ak, William Pammant,
sawmill engineer. killed himself with
shotgun at his home in Quilcene
Two small daughters, Phyllis, 8, and
Gladys, 10, escaped a possible similar
fate of their mother when they leap
ed through their bedroom window and
ran to the Quilcene hote', across the
steet, from where they telephoned for
the sheriff in Port Townsend.
War has been declared by the Pierca
County Poultry association on the Chi.
nese egg, said to be used in large guam
titles by Tacoma hotels and restaur-
ants. An effort will be made to get
the state anti.Chinese egg law en-
| forced, passed in 1915.
The fair value of the system of the
Puget Sound Telephone company, with
| headquarters at Everett and serving
that city and vicinity, for rate-making
purposes, was fixed by the department
| of public works at $1,950,0OO. The val
uation is made as of December 81,
1921.
j. S, Kelsey was named chairman of
committee to ten at Tacoma to be
chosen by himself and to have as its
object the completion of quota of
$4,000 in subscriptions for the promo
ton of the Columbia basin irrigation
project at meeting of the Tacoma
Columbia basin committee at Tacoma
Logging operations in the Inland
Empire this winter will break all rec
ords OF recent years, according to the
monthly review of conditions in that
district issued by the Loyal Legion OF
Loggers and Lumbermen. Shortage of
freight cars is the only factor now
holding back production, according to
the review.
Articles of incorporation for the
Western Lumber & Door company
were filed with the Clarke county au,
ditor. The company, which is capital,
lied at $4,000, plans to take over the
plant of the Iceless Refrigerator com
pany at Vancouver, now dcfunct, and
operate a lumber mill and sash and
door factory.
Protected by the heaviest fog in
years, gang of criminals operated at
Tacoma and blew open the safe of
grocery store, from which about $1,000
was taken, while three masked men
held up 10 logger in the dining hall
of the Eatonville Lumber company
near Eatonville, and escaped in the
fog with $4OO.
Christmas cards and booklets,