Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-06
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Struck with q baseball while watch.
ing game Mt Fife, near Tacoma, caus-
( Ing broken glass to penetrate an artery
in his left eye, NJ. D. Likes OF Orting,
a student OF the University of Wash.
! ington, was removed to the Tacoma
General hospital, where the eye was
removed.
Sale Of extensive logging and timber
interests OF the Coats-Fordney COM
pany in Grays Harbor county to the
Donovan-Corkery Logging company,
which involves several million dollars,
has been announced. The deal is one
of the largest, If not the largest, in
Grays Harbor county.
Depletion of Americas forests as
sures higher prices for lumber, which
will continue to rise as the great fol-
ests disappear, F. W. Fordney, ex
representative in congress and co
author of the ordney-McCumber tariff
measure, predicted in an address be-
fore the Tacoma Lumbermen's club.
In sensational raid at CosmCpclis,
$50 Japanese employees of the Grays
Harbor Commercial company were sur
rounded in a boarding house and
searched by federal officers. Fifteen
japanese we're found who could pro-
duce no passports and they will be
taken to Tacoma to face deportation
charges
The body of Miss Maggie Steen, Sc,
who disappeared from the home of her
! brother, an Ellensburg farmer, Janu-
! ary 8, was found in the hay loft Of
Fred Hinman, farmer residing IL
miles from the Steen home. Hinman
discovered the body while throwing
hay to stock below. The woman had
burrowed deep into the loose hay and
suffocated.
That there is nothing in statutes to
prevent city council, after original
local Improvement proceedings have
been killed by legal sufficiency Of pro-
tests from instituting new proceed
ings covering the same area or any
part thereof at any time thereafter,
the supreme court held in the case Of
the Gasco company against the city
of Olympia
Clarke county's strawberry acreage
will be increased by more than 150
acres as a result of the activities of
representatives of the Oregon Packing
company, which operates one Of the
largest canneries in the northwest in
| Vancouver. The packing men have
signed up 100 acres on five-year con
tracts and 10 more on short.term con
tracts. Fifty acres of raspberries have
also been signed.
What is said to be the largest ship
ments of peacocks sent out during the
past few years was shipped from the
farm Of G. Poncin, near Seattle.
twenty-five birds in nine crates were
routed to j. D. Sullivan OF Mount
Sterling, Ky. two cribs with three
birds to r. r. Jones at Minneapolis;
one bird to John II. Paul of Water.
town, Fla, and four birds to Mrs. H,
r. Adams at Lincoln Park, N. ].
To trade purebred bull calves for
scrub bulls is the unusual offer made
by DR.. L. T. Hertz, owner of stock
ranch, north of Vancouver. Dr. Hertz
has made the offer on condition that
any farmer or dairyman having a
herd of cows with a scrub bull at the
head, take the bull to the butcher, sell
it for meat and turn the butchers
check over to DR.. Hertz. In return
he said he would give the farmer a
purebred calf
Oregon, washington and Brltish
Columbia will join in an informal cele
bration when the paved highway from
Vancouver, B. c., to Portland is com
pleted this year, according to the plans
of the state highway committee Of
Washington. No costly demonstration
is proposed, but the fact that tb9 high
way has been finished will be featured
at the annual meeting of the state
good roads association, to which oi
fetal representatives. and good roadi
enthusiasts of Oregon and British
Columbia will be especially invited
The good roads association will NEE
this year in Olympia,