Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-05


north of Cusick was destroyed by fire
with loss of about s25,00O.
The appointment of Mrs. Anna M.
Robertson, as acting postmaster at
Montesano, has been announced.
F. z. Flowers, So, prominent rancher
residing near Fairfield, took his own
life by hanging himself in the hay.
NOW in his barn.
Excavations for the first pier Of
the new bridge, which is to be built
over the Lewis river at La Center,
have been begun.
An increase of S96S,450S2 in the
value of bank deposits in Clarke coun-
ty during the last year is shown by
figures given out.
If the county assessors have COM
piled their 1923 returns properly, there
is only SS1,344 in money to be found
in the state of Washington.
Every indication points to a record
shipment of products from the Yakima
valley this year. The value of all
crops is estimated at S40,000,000.
l.. e. Bigelow, president of the 66
Oil Syndicate, with offices in Seattle,
was arrested on a secret indictment
returned by federal grand jury.
Arthur Kent, one of the high school
teachers of Walla Walla, has disap.
peared, and Superintendent w. M.
Kern states no trace of him can be
found.
John Carl, IA, killed Mrs. Eunice
Anderson, 35, with a hammer and a
butcher knife, following an argument
regarding noise in her rooming house
in Tacoma.
The Texas Oil company has been
granted permission by the city coun.
Gil to construct an oil station near
the Northern Pacific railroad depot
at Davenport.
One million feet of lumber, sawed
to building sizes, will be sent to Japan
as donation to the reconstruction of
the country by Grays Harbor lumber
manufacturers.
Fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the shingle mill belonging
to l. Hillistad at Joyce and caused the
loss of property valued at approx
mately $4,000.
Territory adjacent to Odessa in the
Big Bend country this season produc.
ed more than 100000 bushels of
wheat, the largest single crop in the
history of the country.
S. L. Copenhagen, one of the largest
landholders of the Big Bend region,
died at Wilbur following a stroke OF
paralysis. He had been a resident
of the district for rs years.
Senator Jones has been requested
by the war department to appoint two
cadets to the United States military
academy from the Fourth COMPRESSION.
al district Of Washington.
The assessed valuation of Whatcom
county property is this year S2S,774,.
62O, according to figures just complet.
ad h,, Accauoor TT n MoArtbur Tb;c
is an increase of s613,2S1 over year
ago.
I On the apportionment Of S699,600
allowed by congress for the survey
and resurvey of the public domain
of the United States during the cur.
rent fiscal year. Washington received
100000.
Henry Copeland, farming 1000 acres
of wheat on Mill creek near Walla
| Walla, reports yield this season OF
/ 60 bushels to the acre. Other farm.
ers in the vicinity report 40 to SO
bushels.
Raymond Howell, the first boy in
Whitman and Latah counties to win
the coveted eagle scout honors, was
presented with his eagle medal at a
meeting of the Pullman chamber OF
commerce.
The steamer West Henshaw lett
Bellingham carrying 100000 feet OF
lumber for reconstruction in Japan
gift from the Bloedel-Donovan, e
X. Wood and Earle S. Mills lumber
companies.
Donald H. Smith, aged ca, who
crossed the plains in prairie schoon
er, died at his home in Seattle from
a sudden attack of heart disease. His
father was the first postmaster Of
Portland, Or.