Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-13
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

William Hunter McEwan, for man,
years one of the most prominent fig
ures in lumber and financial circles
of the Pacific Northwest, died at his
home In Seattle OF heart trouble. He
was SO years old
NJ. F. Mcintyre, grocer of Vancouv
er, is In hospital with bullet in his
chest, while police are investigating
the story told by Mcintyre that the
wound was caused by thief whom he
said he surprised in the store.
Three men were killed and two bad
ly injured when light car in which
they were riding plunged from the
Heisson bridge over the east fork OF
Lewis river, twenty-one miles north,
east Of Vancouver, and dropped about
fifteen feet.
rain fluctuating from mist to a
light fall of drops that prevailed from
the Columbia river to the Strait of
Juan de Fuca between the Pacific
ocean and :he crest OF the Cascade
mountains, was estimated to be worth
several millions of dollars.
The celebration July 4 of compile
ton of the Mount Misery-Grouse Greek
federal highway was largely attended
by citizens of Garfield and Asotin
counties, Washington, and Wallowa
county, Oregon, who met at the COM
munity celebration grounds on Grouse
flats.
Twenty-nine new manufacturing con-
Germs have started business in west
ern Washington during the last three
months, sixteen of these in Seattle,
according to reports to Clancy NJ.
Lewis, executive secretary of the
Manufacturers association OF Wash
ington.
AS sample Of the heavy yield of
cherries in the orchards along Snake
river,s IL Is reported that at the Ben
E. Kelley place on burlington bar, two
miles above Central Ferry, II tons Of
cherries were picked from IL acre
orchard. They we're mostly Bings and
Royal AIMS.
Mrs. Overton G. Ellis OF Tacoma
has been appointed parliamentarian
for the Washington State Federation
of Women's clubs. Mrs. Ellis was
agreed upon by the state board in ex-
ecutive session at Mount Vernon, fol-
lowing the close of the annual state
club convention last week.
Literally swept from the tracks by
an avalanche OF blue clay, Seattle
bound owl" train of the O.-W. R. G
N, was wrecked six miles south of Ia
coma. Engineer Edward Roddy of
Seattle was instantly killed and his
fireman, W. L. Watson, also of Seattle,
was probably fatally injured
Cedar logs have taken a big tumble
in price, following by several months
the slump in the shingle market that
forced all the mills In the vicinity OF
Bellingham to shut down during the
last six weeks. Prices are now quoted
around s14 a thousand feet, while
few days ago they were S2S.
Births greatly exceeded deaths in
the city of Bellingham during the
month Of June, according to the re-
port of DR.. w. w. Ballaine, city health
physician Eighty-nine babies were
born, forty.nine being males and forty
females. OF the twenty-five deaths
eleven were Of males and fourteen
females.
A supreme court decision holds the
vendor of tract OF land Is liable in
damages to the vendee if he repre-
sents that there are more acres in
the tract than there are, even though
the vendee makes a personal examin-
alton of the land, especially where the
tract is irregular and the number of
acres could not bo readily determined
by inspection.
Children Of Valentine Cisna, At,
rancher near McCleary, in the eastern
end of Grays Harbor county told dep
uty sheriffs that their father shot their
mother dead and fled to the woods.
The children said they were playing
outside, heard shots and went into the
house when they saw their father
running away. The body Of Mrs.
Cisna was found in the house. The
children said they knew OF no reason
why their father should kill their
mother.