Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-21
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
FOR THE BUSY READER
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Burglars robbed two Prescott
stores, securing $22S.66 from tills.
Vancouver's lumber shipments by
ocean steamer for the year 1928 viii
total approximately 41,OOO,OOO feet.
Construction of Longview's third
hotel will start late this month and
will be completed early in the spring
The $126,OOO Oregon Washington
Pythian Home at Vancouver, under
construction is expected to be complet
ed soon.
Work will be begun at once on NOV
ing the old bridge at Omak in prepare
ton for installation of the new $751;.
900 concrete bridge.
One of the heaviest jury terms in
Stevens county in many years will
open at Colville January Z, with Is
civil and criminal cases.
By the end OF this week, forty car.
loads of Christmas trees will have
been sent out OF Winlock to various
parts of the United States.
Four boys, whose names were not
announced, are under arrest at Walla
Walla on charges of stealing articles
from mail boxes at the postoffice.
A price war between the Pierce
County Dairymens association and a
number of the large Independent dis
tributors of milk seems inevitable.
The Crown Willamette Paper COM
pany is reported to be about to .aose
important purchases of timber and
logging facilities in Pacific and Wah-
kiakum counties.
A, w. Laird OF Potlatch, Idaho, was
rejected president of the Western
Forestry and Conservation associa-
ton at the close of its two.day annual
meeting in Seattle.
James A. Ford, secretary of the Spo-
kane chamber of commerce, was elect
ed director of the National Rivers
and Harbors congress at its meeting
in Washington. D. C.
Walla Walla plans to lay its new
trunk sewer in the northwestern part
of the city this winter by day labor in
order that the city may not have to
establish bread line.
Dennis Bonner one of the four seri.
ous!y injured when the county bridge
being built over the Nooksack river
collapsed, died at Bellingham. The
other three will recover.
Worried because he had not made
income tax returns, Frank j. Moss
man, connected with the Puget Sound
naval station at Bremertcn, committed
suicide by taking poison.
Cash advances OF S4,OOO,OO0 on
wheat receipts of 100000 bushels
have been made to growers in the CO
operative wheat marketing organiza.
tiuns in Washington and Oregon.
Samuel B. Hill, democrat, sent to
congress from the fifth Washington
district, has been assigned to the com
mittee on public lands and Indian af-
fairs by the democratic organization.
Members of the Inland Empire Dairy
Producers association shipped to the
Spokane plant OF the company in No.
-ember 1,294,S5O pounds of milk or
daily average in excess of $4,000
pounds.
z II. Henry for the last 35 years
q resident OF Washington and at pres.
ent a resident OF Tacoma, has an
uomcod his candidacy for the office
on licutenant-Goyernor in the 1924 pri-
marles.
Claiming that they were sold an or.
chard at Fruitland that was dead,
David and Ella lossmann of Spokane
have started suit to collect $4,000
from Henry A. Klussman and Oscar
Engstrom.
Pratt 4 Watson, Tacoma contrac.
tors, were awarded contract for the
erection OF Tacoma's new $1,5OOOOO
Hotel Winthrop by the Cit.
liens Hotel corporation building com
mittee on bid OF $l.195, $50.
Diking and drainage district No. 90
of skagit county is not entitled to
certain state tidelands lying within
the district according TO an opinion
rendered to Land Commissioner Saw.
ldg by Attorney Dunbar.
With competition of the dredging
and installation of the gridiron actual
began at Everett Monday