Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-05
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

| Tend OTellle county aSSeSSeu Edlu'
alton will this year be based on A per
cent of the actual value, as compared
with 40 per cent last year, according
to the findings of the state board OF
equalization.
AS warning to sportsmen the
Lewis county game commission has
issued public notice calling atten-
tion to the limits Of several game pre-.
serves that have been established in
Lewis county.
Potter c. Sullivan. Tacoma city at.
torney and ex-republican national com
mitteeman, died at his home in Ia.
coma following paralytic stroke. He
was widely known throughout the Pa,
cific northwest.
A new worlds record for silage corn
was shown at Grandview when Coun-
| ty Agent A. e. Lovett weighed an
acre Of corn raised by S. d. Cornell
The final check showed a little more
| than % tons to the acre.
\ Charles G. Grader was found guilty
| of manslaughter by superior court
| Jury at Montesano. Grader killed
Mike Barron with rifle near Tulips
July IL, following a fight growing OUT
of the trespassing of Barron's cattle
on Graders land
| Francis Ahnlund, Seattle, was elect
ed secretary of the Pacific coast
Swedish mission conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in session
at Spokane; Rev. G. w. Bergquist,
Pasadena, CAL, was elected treasurer
and Rev. X. O. Berglund, Tacoma, was
elected statistician and registrar.
A 100-pound box of dynamite was
discovered in the basement of the
Skagit county courthouse at Mount
Vernon. Sheriff Tipp Conn, who sleeps
about 25 feet from where the eXp!o-
sive was found, expressed the belief
that plot had been formed to blow
up the building.
The enlargement Of the scope OF
| the United States public health hos.
pital No. SO at Tacoma to include the
care of disabled eXservice women
from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Alaska is virtually assured, it is an
nounced by Colonel George B. Story,
officer in charge of the hospital.
Invasion of the yellow pine market
of the South by Douglas fir from Pa
cific northwest has reached the cen.
ter of the pine country, according to
officials of the National Lumber and
Box Manufacturing company of Ho.
| quiam, who announce an order for
100000 feet of local lumber for ship
ment to Jacksonville, Fla
Investigation is being made of com.
plants that bank examiners have
opened mail addressed to State Sena-
tor P. l.. Sinclair, at liberty on bail
on charges of making false statements
of the affairs of the Southwestern
Washington bank of nwaco to exam.
iners. Postoffice inspectors from Sc,
attic have been working on the case.
The Yakima field trials club will
hold four-day meet at Yakima, start.
ing October 81. The feature will be a
derby and open classes for all-age
dogs. 1t will be the second time the
trials also will be open to dogs out.
side of the valley. The Yakima dogs
will hold trials October 21-22. The
derby and all-age trials will be held
October 1924.
Receipts from this years state fair
at Yakima were slightly under those
of 1922, according to II. p Vermilye,
secretary. Receipts were s5O,5O7
while last year they were S50,653. No
report of disbursements has been
made, for there are number of pre-
MUM awards to be checked up. Re,
ported attendance from day to day
showed slight gain over last year.
Percy Sinclair, president of the
wrecked Southwestern Washington
bank of Twaco, will be brought to
trial in the superior court in South
Bend October II on the charge OF
certifying to false report on the
banks condition. The charge is based
on Sinclairs attestation of the state
ment made to the state banking de
partment on June 30, showing the Il
waco bank to be in a flourishing con
dition, when the fact was that the
assets had long before been dissipat
ed.