Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-04

Genuine Russian suDlo5. last snug
gled IN from Siberia cost prominent
TIcomans and Camp Lewis officers
$500 within the last few Days and re.
suited In the arrest Of four men at
Tacoma charged with selling cat and
rabbit skins as expensive furs.
Lives Of scores of persons were i'm
perlled when the japanese steamer
InwaiI Mnru collided during dense
fog with the Puget sound passenger
steamer CaliBta off West Point, eight
miles from Seattle. The Calista sank
within 10 minutes after the accident,
/ All the Callsta's passengers aud crew
were saved
The price OF milk delivered to the
consumer in Seattle Ia now II cents n
| quart, an increase OF | cent a quart.
The long drought, resulting In dried
| pastures and purchase OF feed for
cattle, has compelled d0lrymen to
raise the wholesale price of milk, nc.
cording to the Seattle MIX Dealers
association.
Farmers of Prescott and Dixie dis.
tricts OF Wala Walla county have
ordered three carloads of certified
wheat seed. Two carloads OF turkey
red are for farmers Of the Prescott
section and a carload OF Jenkins club
Is for farmers around Dixie. All thee
carloads will be bought in Umatill.
county. Oregon.
Walter j. Robinson was reelected
| president of the board Of trustees OF
the northwest wheat growers at a
meeting Of the board held ut Spokane
| II. ]. Herman of Genesce, Idaho, was
reelected secretary. The directors are
1 r. V. Pcringer, Belmont, Wash; A,
r. Shumway, Milton, Or; Ben IIollen.
beck, Buffalo, Mont.
An attempt was made on the life OF
Harold Vandusen, city editor of the
Bellingham Revellle, when he left the
newspaper plant on his way home al
the conclusion of his nights work.
| A bullet was fired by an assailant,
| hidden in the dark reccsses of the
public library steps, across the street
from the newspaper plant,
The first raft of Quiayute timber
ever shipped to Aberdeen to supply
Grays Harbor mills was sold to the
Wilson Brothers Mill company. Sue.
cess of bringing the Davis log raft
from the Quillayute to Grays Harbor,
July 25, has opened field of wide
possibilities to the future of the log.
gng industry in this section.
Seven more Spokane jtney motor
buses have been sent to Tacoma to
augment the first 10 to 20 busses sent
there in the past 60 days to operate in
that city under state licenses that
run until the end of the year. The
buses were withdrawn from Spokane
when the two streetcar systems con
soldated and lowered car fares.
Another large logging enterprise
will be in operation in Cowlitz coun
ty within few months, according to
reports that are circulating. The Cow
litz Lumber company, which owns 400,
100000 feet of timber southeast OF
Castle Rock and in the vicinity of
Silver lake, is planning to log its
timber This company is controlled
by the Munson interests of Pennsyl-
vania
The tentative program for the Pa
cific northwest district convention of
Kiwanis clubs, to be held in Olympia
August q and %, was sent out to all
Kiwans clubs in the district by
Adolph Schmitt, general chairman,
and B. f. Hume, secretary of the con
vention committee. Featuring the con.
vention will be the visit of George
Ross. international president, on the
first day.
There was somewhat of an improve.
ment in the amount of new business
received by the 1913 mills reporting to
the West Coast Lumbermen's asso.
citation during the week ended July 90
according to reports that have just
been issued New business was with
in per cent of production, and pro-
duction reached the normal stage.
Shipments were II per cent above new
business.
To make the preliminary investiga-
ton OF the Columbia basin project for
the department of the interior, auth
orized by the Poindexter bill, r. NJ.
Goodwin first assistant secretary of
the interior, arrived at Missoula,
Mont, Sunday. Marvin Chase, state
hydraulic engineer went to Missoula
to meet Mr. Goodwin and accompany
him over the project. Dan A. Scott,
director of conservation and develop
ment, and Ivan Il. Goginer, state
reclamation engineer met Mr. Good
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