Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-28
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
FOR THE BUSY READER
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Fifty.cight students of the normal
school received diplomas at Beillng-
ham.
John Goldman, 80, G. A. R, veteran
and pioneer of Columbia county. died
in Walla Walla.
The Clarke county potato crop this
year will not exceed so per cent Of
the yield of last year, it is said.
AT meeting at Oaleesdale, many
farmers formed branch Of the Wash.
ington export commission league.
Although the date for signing leases
for lands on the Yakima Indian reser.
walton is March /, many are renewing
now.
! Edward B. Hampstead of Walla
I Walla has been appointed a cadet at
the United States military academy,
West Point.
A rifle and pistol shooting club
which will be affiliated with the Ma
tional Club association is being form
ed at Colfax.
Game Warden Lynn of Chelan coun-
ty announces that the white fish sea
son will be open from January / to
February 2S.
J Members of the Whitman county
farm bureau are pooling their hog ship
ments to the Spokane union stock
yards with good results.
Teaching of German after lapse
of five years will be resumed in Spo,
kane high schools, provided there is
enough demand to justify classes.
Harry M. Hollingsworth, Sc, died at
the Swindall hospital in Montesano
from injuries received when his car
overturned on the Wynooche road.
Mrs. Kathryn A. Miracle, member
of the Seattle city council, has official
ly announced her candidacy for mayor
at the municipal election next spring.
William H. Lewis, one of the best
known hydraulic sluicing engineers of
the Pacific northwest and a pioneer
contractor, died at his home in Sc
attic. He was IS years old
According to announcement the dis
trict convention of the Kiwanis, in
Guiding Washington, oregon, Idaho
and British Columbia, will be held in
Walla Walla September S and 8.
I Prohibition and customs officers
seized an airplane at the Foster Rus
sell landing field at Spokane and are
holding it for an investigation Of al
legged aerial liQuor-running from Can
ada.
The third annual Whatcom county
poultry school will be held at Meridian
high school December q, 2S and 29,
under the direction of the extension
department OF Washington State col
lege.
Pinned beneath a heavy car when
it skidded and upset in the Selah val
ley Silas e. Bunker, prohibition en-
forcement officer and head of the va
kima county dry squad, was seriously
injured.
/ Reputation of the Washington
State Chamber of Commerce was vot-
ed by the trustees of the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce, The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce has taken SINH
lar action.
A claim of S6OSO5 against the es.
tate of John L. Carlson, once wealthy
canneryman of Alaska and Seattle,
who died in 1921, was filed in probate
court at Seattle by Burns Poe, col
lector of internal revenue.
With his house filled with stolen
toys, small articles of merchandise
and gimcracks, sufficient almost to
stock small variety store, Schuyler
King, aged 20 years and married, was
placed under arrest in Olympia.
Because, they declared, of the de
fiant attitude and the poor civic
spirit" shown by leading citizens of
Deer Park in the matter of law en-
forcement Mayor Wood and all the
active members of tho city council
have resigned.
Requests for improved passenger
ana freight service on the Central
Washington branch of the Northern
Pacific were made to Il. Il. Benson,
manager of the department OF immi'
grafton and industry of the Ncrtlern
Pacific by the business mons club of
Reardon.