Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-23

ThrSe hundred carloads OF Yakima
apples have been shipped TO Europe
this season.
The Seattle amateur hockey associa.
ton has laid plans for a fourteam
amateur hockey league this winter.
Few wild geese have made their APP.
pearauce this year at their usual
haunts on the upper Columbia river,
Major,General Edwin Burr Rabbit,
commander of Camp Lewis, was sew
erely injured in an automobile accident
near Camp Lewis.
Electors OF the Hoquiam school dis,
trict will be asked TO approve a 4-mill
levy for purchase of a site for school
to replace the Central grammar build
ing.
A concerted drive to ra$se the ST.,
100000 endowment and loan fund,
which constitutes the major philan-
thropic work of the P E. o. sister.
mood, was voted down at the final SEES
sions of the 26th biennial convention
of the order at Seattle.
Common law trusts are prohibited
from continuing to do business in this
state as the result of supreme court
decision denying an application for a
writ of mandate to compel Secretary
of State ]. Grant Hinkle to accept the
filling Of service corporations.
Three persons died in Gle Elum of
botulism, it was announced by DR.. II.
]. Felch, Kittitas county health Of
ficer. They were Slava Grubishich,
20; Ava, IA, his brother, and Fred
Wengel, an employee on the Grubishich
farm, six miles from Gle Elum.
That James Hare, 66, wind-fall
bucker for the River Logging COM
pany, lost a race for his life with
forest fire near Humptulips Sunday,
became known when his body, burn
ed beyond recognition, was found by
searching party about three miles
south of Humptulips.
Prune growers OF Clarke county will
lose nearly 100000 pounds OF prunes
through lack of drier capacity, ac-
cording to Fred Brocker, vice-presi-
dent of the Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation. The prunes fell from
the trees in such quantities that the
driers could not handle the fruit.
Mayor Brown and party of Seattle
city officials started Friday on a tour
of investigation of the Columbia river
basin irrigation project. The party
will go to Lake Pend Oreille, making
the trip by automobile with several
stops, including the mayors apple
orchard at Neppel and Spokane.
D. E. Stewart of Knappa, Or, was
elected president of the Pacific log
ging congress at the closing session
in Spokane of its 14th annual meet
ing. Huntington Taylor of Occur
d'Alene was chosen vice-president.
Resolutions adopted by the congress
recommended: Larger appropriations
for forest protection by state, federal,
provincial and dominion governments;
utilization OF troops in fire fighting;
ANY practical plan" for reforestation;
and state legislation to make the
teaching OF forest fire prevention com
pulsory in the public schools of the
northwest
After being carefully concealed for
more than two weeks, it was discover.
ed in a search of court files at Seattle
that Mrs. Kate Forbes, wife of Colonel
Charles R. Forbes, former director of
the United States veterans bureau,
and who has been mentioned promin
entity at hearing being conducted by
the senate committee at Washington,
D, c., investigating alleged graft in
connection with the awarding of con.
tracts for government hospitals, had
been granted an interlocutory decree
of divorce by Judge Mitchell Gillian
of the King county superior court on
October IL.
Three Washington state heroes, one
dead, were a1nong thirty-six whose
acts Of hGroism were recognized by
the Carnegie hero fund commission at
its fail meeting in Pittsburg, all be
ing awarded bronze medals. One of
these, Philip w Simmons, seventeen,
of Seattle, saved another school boy
from drowning at East Seattle, on
Lake Washington, July Is, 1920. An
other is Joseph Sheppard, sequim,
aged seventeen years, who lost his
life while attempting to rescue q man
and a woman from drowning at lone,
June %, 1922, His father was given
Il bronze medal. The other bronze
medal went to Il. Hersehel Mott, lone,
who attempted Il drowning rescue at
lone on June %, 1922