Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

group of high school athletes appear
Ing In one meet in southeastern Wash
ington when the intercounty track and
field meet was staged Saturday. The
entries included more than 100.
Large crops of all kinds are GER
tain in the Walla Walla district this
season, the conditions being satisfac-
tory from every angle, according to
w. P. Winans, president of the First
National bank Of Walla Walla.
]. II. Sexsmith has purchased the
sawmill of the King Sash, Door and
Lumber company at Penrith, and has
started dismantling the plant for ship
ment to Somers, Mont, where he has
purchased 100000 feet of timber
The entire Spokane city council was
technically guilty of contempt of court
when it ignored Federal Judge Cush-
mans injunction forbidding anyone
from interfering with a rate increase
granted the telephone company, ef-
fective May 1. The council advised
phone patrons to refuse to pay the in
crease on May bills.
The old county bridge across the
Washougal river on the North Bank
highway north of Washougal has been
opened to traffic, allowing motorists to
go to Stevenson without detouring. The
bridge collapsed about two weeks ago
and was closed for repairs. 1t is be.
ing replaced by steel span, which is
! being built by Clarke county
, A desperate struggle between five
| unarmed men and large female black
bear, intent on protecting her two
small cubs, was recounted at Raymond
when the men arrived there with one
OIL the cubs they had captured The
men were Joseph Rockey, Erick Fors-
man, Barney Erickson, Tony Androsky
and Sam Hanna all of Raymond.
Application for writ of review of
the recent order of the state depart
ment of public works in the matter of
increased telephone rates of the Pa
cific Telephone G Telegraph company,
in Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma, was
filed in the superior court of Thurston
county by George A. Meagher, assist
ant corporation counsel for Seattle.
Five men were killed when a scat
fold on which they were working fell
from the roo. # the Hotel Monticello,
under constrU, on at Longview. The
dead are Georg, Millspaugh, Portland,
Or. Harvey Petr@u, Spokane, Wash;
Frank Wochnic.i, Portland, Or. Fred
Patrick Kelso, " sh.; S. j. Hoist,
Joseph, Or. All the alen were brick
layers.
Resignation of Ass slant Immigra-
tion Commissioner Henry A. Monroe,
stationed at Seattle, transi of two in
spectors to other parts of tie country
and dismissal Of Henry Chin. ling, an
interpreter, have been announc ed. The
announcement followed an investiga-
lion made by a commission from Wash
ington. Dissatisfaction with the hand
ling of Chinese immigration was given
as the reason.
George C. Pratt of Seattle was elect
ed president of the Washington State
Retailers association, which held
its fourth annual convention in Seattle,
Regional vice presidents were chosen as
follows George ]. Wolff, Aberdeen;
G. w. Rhodes, Tacoma; Harry L.
Catalan, Yakima; J. NJ. Emerson, Pull.
man; w. II. Cleayer, Everett; George
A. Phillips, Spokane, and Fred A.
Ernest and Ray f. Bigelow, Seattle.
First steps in the investigation to
determine the feasibility of reclaiming
about 100000 acres of land in the
Columbia river basin were taken with
the appointment by Secretary Work of
the commission which will conduct the
field survey. Assistant Secretary F.
NJ. Goodwin, one of the commissioners,
wiil leave Washington d. c., this week
for Spokane, where he will meet the
ether members inclNing Director A.
P. Davis of the reclamation service;
Homer j. Gault, engineer of the RECLAIM
alton service; Kirk Bryan, geologist
and Glenn l., Parker, hydraulic engi
neer of the geological survey and A. T
srahorn, soil expert Of the department
OF agriculture.