Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-31

The annual convention of the Sun
day school association of Clarke coun.
ty was held at Zelda.
Seven alleged l. w. W. leaders were
arrested while addressing a group of
so men on the street at Colfax.
Contracts for new concrete streets of
value of nearly 100000 were awarded
by the Hoquiam city commission.
The Bellingham state normal school
has changed the opening date of the
first quarter from September 10 to
October 1.
Another ancient Pudget sound quar-
rel has been settled by award of the
final contract for the new Skagit coun-
ty courthouse at Mount Vernon.
| Miss Ella Robinson, a waitress en-.
ployed at Paradise Inn, Rainier ma
tional park, was drowned while swim
ming in small lake near the inn.
While examining high.power gov
ernment rifle at his home in White
Salmon, Silas Jensen, a hardware mer-
chant, accidentally shot and killed his
wife.
The big cannery at Vancouver of
the Oregon Packing company has re-
sumed operations after shutdown of
more than two weeks because of lack
of fruit
Seven Boy Scouts from towns In the
Wenatchee valley received awards az
the result of passing Red Cross life.
| saving tests at the Chelan county
camp at Lake Alta.
That the earwig has secured a sood
foothold in the excluc,ve residence
section in Tacoma was indicated when
city and state inspectors discovered
evidence of the bugs.
f. M. Goodwin, assistant secretary
of the interior, will come to Spokane
this week to hold conference Septem-
ber and 5 concerning the Columbia
Basin irrigation project.
After fight with a dozen men in
large lodging house in Seattle, fed
eral agents arrested Hong Gent, IS, and
seized narcotics that they said were
worth more than $4,000 at retail
prices.
H. o. Fishback, state insurance COM
missioner Of the state of Washington,
was elected president of the National
Association of Insurance Commission.
ers, at the 54th annual convention In
Minneapolis, MINI.
About 100000 salmon per day are
being handled by the three Bellingham
canneries, who declare that the hump
back run is on in the Sound in full
swing. Fishing is expected to be good
for several more weeks.
October 2 has been announced as
the date for an auction sale Of timber
on state land In Lewis county. Two
tracts are to be disposed of, one of 1853
acres, appraised at $24,s94, and the
other Of 40 acres, appraised at s1347.50.
When customs statistics for August,
1898, are compiled, It is estimated.
silk valued in excess Of 100000 will
be seen to have been handled over
Seattle wharves and forwarded to the
silk manufacturing centers Of New
York and New Jersey.
Reports from the harvest fields In
dicate an exceptionally heavy yield OF
wheat in the districts west and south
of Pullman, fair yield to the east,
but disappointing returns from farms
to the north, which district last year
produced the best crops.
Prune growers of the Walla Walla,
Freewater and southern Idaho regions
have to find markets for 5000 cars Of
fresh fruit within the next few weeks
and have called upon the bureau of
agricultural economics of the depart
ment of agriculture for assistance.
The prune market, which has been
at low ebb for many months is
showing signs Of rally and may be
fairly firm by the time the crop is
harvested, William Wood, manager of
the Washington Growers Packing cor,
poration of Clarke county, declares.
Lee Johnston, member OF the se-
attic bar, after legal fight lasting
several weeks, was ordered by United
States Commissioner Bowman to be re-
moved to Boise, Idaho, for trial on a
charge that he received $4,000 that he
knew had been stolen from the mail.