Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-07-21

Waterborne transportation out OF
Tacoma In June showed n so per cent
increase over the same period last
year, according to figures compiled
by w, G. Rowlaad, hnrbormNster,
c. w, Pugsley, assistant secretary
of agriculture, is to arrive IN Spokane
July 30, for tour of the state, After
visiting the State College at Pullman
and the University Of Idaho at Mos.
COW, Mr.. pugslry will make an auto.
mobile tour Of the Yakima valley ard
80 to Seattle and Portland
Subscriptions amounting to $4,000
have been made at Aberdeen toward
$4,000 fund started toward erection
of statue of Captain Robert GrayI
discoverer Of Grays Harbor and much
interest Is taken in the movement
The statue will be the gift of Aber.
deem and HoQuium residents.
Tacomans will have Scent curfare
after August /, as the result of the ac.
ton OF the city council and Mayor A.
V. Fawcett in granting permits to e.
II. Sandmire of Spokane TO operate
IL busses in Tacoma. The move Is the
latest made by Mayor FuwCett in his
fight for Scent streetcar fare.
The owner of an apartment building,
having no knowledge of defects in the
installation Of an elevator and being
guilty of no wilful wrong, or fraud, or
palpable negligence, cannot be held
liable for damages for injury of the
elevator operator due to the breaking
of the cable, the supreme court has
held.
The cornerstone of the administra.
tive Building of the new capitol group
at Olympia will be laid on September
9th. The ceremonies will be in charge
of the worshipful grand lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons of Washington,
with the most worshipful grand mas
ter James Mccormack, Of Tacoma, in
charge.
New forest fires of serious proper
tons were reported throughout the in
land empire last week, with fire
which had been burning nearly two
weeks in the Aladdin district out OF
control and burning at will through
the Deep creek, Meadow creek and
Meadow lake districts rs miles north
of Spokane.
Many Grays Harbor mills, wiz. an
acute log shortage, are faced with the
necessity to close down at least tenn
porarily. Log supplies are running eX.
tremely low for many of the mills
The reason given is that lOggers are
either idle or are operating only part
time, due to the menace of fire con
ditions, and normal logging activities
are being held up until after good
rain.
Captain A. C. Sullivan suspended
secretary of the Seattle police depart
ment, was dismissed from the force
by Chief Severyns at the direction of
Mayor Brown. Captain Sullivan is I'M
der bond on charge of grand larceny
in connection with the alleged mis-
appropriation of municipal funds and
county officials are engaged in
checll-up of other alleged Irregularities
in his accounts.
At the close of the first siX.week
term of the summer session of the
State Normal school at Ellensburg,
sixteen students completed the full
two.year course and are entitled to
diplomas, and eleven finished the one
year course and are entitled to cert.
ficates enabling them to teach. A
large number will be awarded di-
plomas and certificates at the close
of the summer session in August
Standardization of clothing and
shoes for inmates Of all state institu-
tions, all of which will be manufacture
ed and tailored at the institutions
themselves, was arranged at the con-
ference of institutional superintend-
ents and heads of the state depart
ment of business control, meeting at
Walla Walla. Confusion in ordering
and in manufacture will be eliminated
and new economies made possible.
Approximately two weeks will be re.
Quired to complete the official canvass
of each of the two initiative measures
submitted with petitions to Secretary
of State Hinkle AS the polltaX repeal
petitions are being checked first it
will be about month before the can.
vass of the petitions on the 1910 school
measure petitions is completed A
large checking force is working on the
canvass, which involves much work.