Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-08
STATE NEWS.

That she killed her daughter aud then
herself
A jeweler who displays a device in.
tended to enable persons to fit glasses
to their own eyes, the store employ.
ing no licensed optOmetrist, is ylolat.
ing the optometry license law, Assist.
ant Attorney-General Dunbar held in
an opinion to Fred ]. Dbble, director
Of licenses.
Enrolment figures at the University
of Washington show a decrease OF
three in the number OF freshmen reg.
isterlng and an increase of $50 in the
number of students in the senior class,
as compared with last year The Col,
lege of Liberal Arts is again the
largest in the University.
Production of the 1862 mills reporting
to the West Coast Lumbermens as.
ISOLATION for the week ending Novem.
Der was per cent above normal,
according to a report At the same
time new business was 20 per cent
below production and shipments were
Is per cent below new business.
Co ordination Of field work, estab-
lishmont Of flat Industrial insurance
rates, payable every four months COM
Inning wherever possible the related
industries formerly handled separately
by several boards and commissions, all
resulted in reduction of expenditures
Of S122,317.74 between April /, 1921,
and March 81, 1922, as compared with
the preceding - months under the old
system. This is detailed in the first
biennial report of the state department
of labor and industries to Governor
Hart.
A damage suit asking one million
dollars from the state of Washing.
ton was sent to the supreme court by
Federal Judge Frank Rudkin at Spo-
kane. 1t was brought by A. B. Wiltse,
a Ritzville attorney who was recent.
ly disbarred by the state board. The
state has filed no answer to the
charge. Wiltse recently filed a rec.
ord damage suit against 4 Spokane
newspaper charging libel and request.
ing payment of twenty million dollars.
Tansy Bolton, %, Mrs. j. T. O'Brien,
SO, and Hialmar Anderson, 80, are
dead as a result of a double killing and
suicide in cabin at Copalis beach, an
ocean point about 25 miles from Aber,
deem. Anderson, according to the pc.
lice, killed the two women, first hack,
ing Miss Bolton terribly with a knife,
and then killed himself
Improvement in conditions of the
lumber industry in the northwest was
noted in the weekly bulletin issued by
the West Coast Lumbermens associa,
ton. The report shows that, with 143
mills operating in the northwest, 49,.
100000 feet of lumber were manufac,
tured, SS,766,200 feet were sold and
S2,954,00O feet were shipped
Dan Wuille & Co., English apple pur.
chasing concern, northwestern head.
quarters Of which are located at Hood
River, Or, have received returns on
the first account sales of shipments to
the English market fer the season,
The fruit, three cars of five-tier fancy
and c grade Jonathans, shipped from
Spokane, returned growers $1.15 a box.
Vancouver high school students who
want to wear toreador trousers may
do so without the danger of having to
go home by a secluded route. The an
ii peon pants forces on the school cam
pus were completely routed in
stormy session of the student body and
student election in which the sup.
porters of the peon pants won by $40
to 176.
A memorial tablet erected by the
Washington Historical society is to be
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies
December 2 at the intersection OF The
National Park highway and the first
military road ever constructed in the
territory, The early road, built in 1853
and 1854, was to connect Fort Stella.
COON, on Puget sound, with Fort Walla
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