Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-30
STATEMENTS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

decrease approximating 10 per cent
In interstate freight rates.
Gasoline tax returns for May were
$1,000 higher than for April, Fred J,
Dibble, director Of licenses, has an.
nounced. The total for the month was
SsS,3l995, as against s72.3Ss.e5 col.
lected In April, The total for the II
months since the tax became effective
was S7S3,472 June returns will put
the gasoline tax receipts for the year
well over sS5o.0OO. ]
Five thousand Spokane children will
march in the American legion Fourth
of July parade and city organizations,
mothers, fathers school teachers and
the children themselves are working
hard to make the novel stunt sue.
cess.
A resolution protesting against "the
proposed wearing of the American
colors by Jack Dempsey in his COM
ing bout with Bill Brennan" was un.
animously adopted by Austin-Rees-
Wheeler post of the American Legion
Of Ellensburg.
Allen King, 3-year.old son of S. E.
King, Walla Walla attorney, was
drowned when he fell into a small
stream running past his home and
was washed into a culvert running
under the street, his body becoming
lodged in the culvert.
]. X. Smalley was awarded $1,000
damages against the city Of Pullman
by a jury in the superior court at
Colfax in his suit for damages alleged
to have been caused by the Pullman
sewage tank, situated near Smalley's
properly. SmaIley sued for $4,000.
1t is announced by officials of the
Wenatchee Southern railroad that the
condemnation suit started by the
Great Northern railway involving
strip of land 80 feet wide and 1900
feet long through the L. H. Corle
place south of Wenatchee has been
settled out of court.
Mrs. Harriet de Beaumont died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. E.
Curl of Dayton last week. Mrs de
Beaumont celebrated her Tooth birth
day anniversary June 5, and was one
of the most remarkable characters
ever known in Eastern Washington.
She possessed a keen mind and re-
tanned her faculties until the last.
Washington will receive from the
federal government for road construc-
ton in the state $735,S06 during the
fiscal year beginning July l; $956,39O
during the next fiscal year. and ST.
103,710 during the year following. This
is made certain by the adoption of a
three.year federal BODYBUILDING pro.
gram in the postoffice appropriation
bill, signed by President Harding.
C. H. Riley and Charles Butt were
found guilty at Port Angeles of MUIR
der in the first degree for the shoot
ing Of Ray Light during holdup Of
the Discovery Bay Logging company,
March &C. The jury, after delberat-
ing seven hours, recommended life i'm
prisonment. Light, former service
man, was playing cards with other en-
ployes of the lumber camp when two
highwaymen accosted them. The fatal
shooting followed.
King county Is not liable for personal
injuries suffered by juror In super
ior court while in the care Of baillffs,
the supreme court decided, unfolding
a demurrer to the action brought by
Mary Kildall. The juror, with II
others, was being conducted across a
crowded thoroughfare by two bailiffs
when fast moving automobile struck
her The court held that bailiffs are
appointed by judges and since they are
not agents of the county the appellant
had no right to recover from the
county.
Confirmation of earlier reports that
ny elk on the upper Hob river had
died Of starvation during the past win
ter was obtained by r. L. Fromme,
federal supervisor Of the Olympic PEN
Ursula Forest, who returned from a
weeks trip into remote parts of the /,
forest reserve. Skeletons of several
animals that starved to death were
found by Mr.. Fromme and his party
and settlers and rangers reported
many more earlier in the season which,
with those eaten by bears and other
animals, would make probably 100 elk
that died in this manner.