Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-01
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
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Sentence to be hanged at the Walla
Walla penitentiary June 25 was pass.
ed on Kakuzo Yanai by Superior Judge
French at Seattle. Kakuzo was con-
yicted of fatally shooting Fred Kama
zawa, proprietor of a pool hall
For the past two weeks Indians from
the Methow, Omak and Nespelem re-
gions have been camped on Badger
mountain and at Moses coulee, near
Waterville, digging camas This is an
annual event for the Indians,
The Smith-Reynolds American Le-
gion post at Vancouver owes $lG3,6S2,
according to petition filed in super
ior court by Charles Watts, receiver
for the post. To meet this indebted
ness the post has but $50, $50 in assets.
The heaviest pack in history is in
prospect at the cannery of the Ore
son Packing company at Vancouver.
When the strawberry season is at its
height between zoe and 500 men and
women will be employed at the plant.
The hearing aimed at investigating
Seattle's terminal problems, ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion at the instigation of the war de-
partment will not be heard until fall,
according to information from Olym-
pia.
Checking up surveys, nearly COM
,, pleted by engineers, show that more
than 1880 acres will be covered by
the new high line canal for the Pater-
os-Brewster district. This is several
hundred acres in excess of the original
estimates.
A speed of SO knots an hour, little
more than II miles, attained by the
United States scout cruiser Milwau-
kee, Tacoma.bult ship, on her build
er's speed trial last week, eclipses any
record ever made by any vessel larg-
er than a destroyer.
David Arnold of Lyle was killed and
Matt Glavin, a subcontractor of Port
land, and Clarence Smith, laborer
of Kansas City, Kan, were injured
seriously by the premature explosion
OF dynamite while they were blasting
on the North Bank highway near Lyle
British Columbia authorities are pa
trolling the highways with machine
guns mounted on motorcycles looking
for autoists smuggling liquor into the
United States, Carl f. Jackson, pro-
hibition director for the Pacific north
west, reported on his return to Sc
attic from trip north of the line.
The city authorities of Olympia have
begun sinking a test well to determine
whether artesian water can be OBJ
tanned in sufficient quantities for use
as city water when the city shall be
required to add to its supply, which,
though ample now, will soon be need
ed if the present rate of growth keeps
up.
After James A. Duncan, secretary
of the Seattle labor council had an
nounced his defiance OF Samuel Comp
ers, president of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor the council deferred
for two weeks action on a demand by
the federation that affiliatiOu with it
be severed or advocacy Of the Russian
soviet abandoned.
Suit asking reduction in unpaid
taxes to the extent of SSG7424 has
been filed against w. c. Salter, treas
urer of Thurston county, by the Norpia
Realty corporation OF Olympia. The
lands in question comprise some 5000
acres lying several miles north of
Olympia in what is known as the Ben
ton harbor district.
Director of Licenses Fred j. Dib-
BILE predicts that the motor vehicle
fund this year will show a gain over
1922 of more than $75OOOO and for the
biennial period will be fully $1,6OO,OOO
greater than for the past two years.
The state highway system, which is
constructed largely from moneys in
this fund, will be the beneficiary.
Election OF officers, the selection of
Seattle as the meeting place for the
1924 convention and reports on var
ious phases of church work brought
to an end the 14th annual conven-
tion at Tacoma of the womens auxil-
larry of the Episcopalian diocese Of
Olympia. Mrs. d. j. kinzie of Tacoma
/ was chosen president of the auxiliary.