Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-02

wage schedules for skilled build
ing trades in Spokane will be lncreas
ed from 80 cents to 81 day, effective
April l, according to announcement
A fire loss of $4,000 was sustained
by L. b. Haggard Maple Falls mer
chant, in blaze that originated from
n short circuit on a telephone switch
board.
Thrty-one boys. ranging in age from
l6 to 25, completed a 31.mile relay
marathon from Tacoma to Olympia
Friday in hours q minutes and 80
seconds.
For possessing booze and engaging
in a fight, Stanley NJ. Nevin voca.
tional student at Washington State
college at Pullman, was fined $40 and
costs last week.
Professor R. V. Mitchell, for many
years head Of the poultry department
of Washington State college at Pull.
man has resigned to take up CONNER.
cial work in the East.
Mrs. Amelia Warner, aged SS, died
at the home of her grandson, Bert
Smith, near Dixie. She had been a
resident OF the Walla Walla valley for
nearly half century
What is believed to be the largest
logging block ever made has been
finished by the Lamb Machine works
of Hoquiam. 1t weighs 1900 pounds
and has a 42-inch sheave
Articles of incorporation for the
Clarke County Power & Water COM
pany, which proposes to extend pow
er line to Battle Ground and vicinity,
were filed at Vancouver.
John Jarben and Lewis Jarben,
brothers, employees of the Crown Lum.
Der company, were drowned in Puget
sound near Mukilteo when rowboat
was capsized by choppy sea.
Directors of the Ritzville schools
find that they cannot maintain the
schools on the regular tax levy and
will ask the voters on March 3 to
indorse special mill levy.
A total of $2,6S5,641 has been invest.
ed in the public port of Tacoma, the
annual report of the state auditor
shows, During 1922 the operations OF
the port showed a profit of $3O,565.
| Several hundred leading lumber
manufacturers of the Pacific north
west attended the annual meeting in
Seattle of the stockholders of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
The first annual sale of registered
Duroo-Jersey hogs held under the aus
pices OF the Whitman County Duroc-
Jersey association was a big success,
"a females bringing an average of SIS
each.
AT meeting in Tacoma OF the Pa
cific Northwest Milk Dealers asso-
citation, A. NJ Work of Portland was
reelected president for the third time.
A. f. Bird OF Seattle is secretary
treasurer.
Dwight L. Woodruff, general man
ager of the Wenatchee District Coop
sratire association since its organlza-
tion, pas resigned. The association
last year distributed 100000 among
Its 900 members.
Conviction OF Ben Orcutt and Ray
Moore in superior court of Clarke
county as the bandits who held up
the Sells-Floto circus ticket wagon at
Vancouver in September, 1921, and
fled with $35,OOO was reversed by the
state supreme court on the ground
that the lower court Judge, George H
Simpson, had barred testimony fay
orsble to Moore, which should have
been admitted, The defendants were
tried together which makes the re
Versal apply to both. The case was
remanded for new trial
Though the importation of Chinese
eggs through The seaports Of this state
continues unabated, the use of the
foreign eggs in Washington industries
has almost ceased, reports to the
directors of agriculture show. Loca
egg and poultry raisers who have the
largest and strongest cooperative as
sociation in the state almost complete
ly control the Washington markets
Before state legislation was procured
a large quantity OF Chinese eggs wert
used in cracker.makIng and in bal,
cries. Presumably use Of foreign egg
is made by eastern houses, for tn,
Chinese eggs continue to be imported
either frozen or in powdered form.