Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-13
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

The week of April Is to 90 has been
designated as "Prune blossom week" in
Clarke county.
Plans to acquire new rolling stock
for the municipal street railway will
be abandoned by Seattle city officials.
Forty-four out of sixty graduate den.
lists taking the recent state eXamina-
tions at Olympia will receive licenses
to practice.
Mrs. George Wing, about 45, was
drowned in the Columbia river near
Washougal when she fell overheard
| from houseboat.
Since the withdrawal of the state
bounty on coyotes, Benton county com.
missioners have decided to offer q
bounty of SO head.
| Work was begun last week on the
! Pacific Warehouse company's 10 story
Terminal Sales building at Seattle
The structure will cost 100000.
Sheriff Jackson has brought suit
against Thurston county andSth board
of county commissioners to compel
the payment of the salary of his
deputy.
Beginning Monday, April 2, an in,
crease of 40 cents day was given EN-,
ployes of the Menefee Lumber company
and the Oregon-Kalama Lumber com,
| pany at Winlock.
Martin Olsen, who was in an automo-
bile party between Eatonville and Elbe,
was killed in drunken brawl Pat
| O'Donnell, member Of the party, sus.
pected of the killing, was jailed.
Charged with unprofessional conduct
and threatened with trial by the state
bar examiners, Edwin H. Flick has ten
dered his resignation as a member of
the bar in the state of Washington.
The Seattle school board last Sat
urday voted a $50 increase In the sal
aries of all teachers, supervisors and
principals. The action will add $780,
| 900 year to the cost Of city education.
Opposition to the state highway de-
partment securing right of way for
the new highway between Sequim and
Agnew may lose state moneys for that
section this year, state officials claim.
Nearly so men day, mostly on farm
calls, are being sent out by the Spo-
kane city employment bureau at wages
ranging around $50 month and
board, with mixers running to $50 and
upward.
At a meeting Monday the Grays Har-
Dor county commissioners decided to
continue paying bounties for predatory
animal pelts, regardless of the fact that
the recent legislature failed to make
an appropriation for payment of such
fees.
The NJ. G. S. Lumber company of Bel
lingham, whose principal owners are
Frank McCue and c. A. Snow of Seat
tie, has purchased 14O00,000 feet of
timber near Deming for $4,000, and
will employ IS men in logging the
tract.
MIR. and Mrs. Paul Nosko, parents of
Anna Nosko, II years old, who was
slain at Battle Ground, near Vancou-
yer, have filed suit for $1,000 damages
against George Edward Whitfield, a
youth who is in Jail accused of her
murder.
Applications for seed wheat in the
eastern Washington drouth counties,
for which the last legislature provided
relief by a S25O,OOO seed wheat loan
appropriation from the reclamation re-
volving fund, are not expected to total
100000.
John l.. Wylie, shot through the
head by masked burglar as he en-
tered the home of friend, died at a
Seattle city hospital. Police Of all
cities and towns Of the northwest were
notified to watch for the slayer, whose
description was broadcast.
The Hart Construction company of
Tacoma has been awarded the contract
for 1900 feet of trestle approaches to
the steel bridge which the Longview,
Portland & Northern Railway company
viii build across the Cowlitz river
south OF the Coweeman river.