Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-28

dent and veteran politician of Wash
ington, committed suicide in Seattle
by shooting himself through the head.
The Washington cranberry crop is
the best ever grown in the west, ac-
cording to w. e. Schimpff, sales man
ager of the Pacific Growers Exchange.
Walla Walla apple growers are wait.
ing for cool weather to color the fruit
before heavy shipments are started.
Ten to IL carloads are being sent out
daily.
Walter Johnson shot and killed his
wife, Elsie Johnson, at Everett and
then turned the weapon, 32-caliber
pistol, on himself. Johnson died half
an hour later.
T. NJ. Wilson, so, of Hazel Dell, in
Clarke county, leaped astride of 27-
pound salmon and beat it to death
with board, while fishing for bass
in Salmon creek.
Only per cent of the 1923 wheat
crop in the Pullman district, remains
to be threshed, while 35 per cent Of
the crop has been sold at prices rang.
ing from SIS to 80 cents.
Willapa harbor lumber shipments
for August totalled 12,O22,992 feet, as
shown in report from the traffic as.
sociation at Raymond. The material
was carried in IL vessels.
Chehalis' three banks made an ex-
ceptionally good showing September
IA, the date of the last statement that
was called, with total Of deposits
aggregating s4,21O,1212S.
Pacific county Will keep its house
on S420,970.S2 during the year 1924,
according to the preliminary report on
the annual budget made public by
County Auditor Frank Miller.
The bodies of Harry Johnson and
H. Holton, both of Seattle, were found
floating in the water beside the ap-
parently abandoned speedboat Mar
garet Ann, near Lakota Beach.
Estimates of expenses for running
the Everett public schools for the year,
as submitted to the school board, are
S456,6QO. The enrolment this year
is 5,415 as against 5,194 last year.
! The Harrington Commercial club
has passed resolution asking the Of
ficers of the Harrington Manufactur-
ing company to rebuild their plant, re.
Gently destroyed by fire, on the orig
inal site.
With each sack labeled From the
Walla Walla valley" two carloads, or
1000 barrels of flour are on their way
from Walla Walla for the Japanese.
About $4,000 of the $500 raised in the
valley was spent for the flour.
Gross volume of business done at
the Chehalis cannery for the present
season, by the North Pacific Co-opera,
tive Packing company, auxiliary OF the
North Pacific Cooperative Berry
Growers, aggregated about 100000.
A proposal to build fence around
the athletic field at the Vancouver
high school in order to force specta.
tors of football and other games to
pay admission, is being considered by
school authorities and civic organiza.
tions.
Lachrymal lozenges or tear gas
bombs are to be used by the Spokane
police in attacking barricaded GRIM
inals, according to announcement
made by Chief Wesley Turner after
an order for the bombs had been
placed.
A robber who entered the Rainier
loan office in Seattle knocked A. N.
Levy, proprietor, unconscious. with a
heavy instrument and escaped with
an undetermined amount Of money
from the office safe and gold coins
valued at 500,
Bachelor Island slough, west OF
Ridgefield, and Lewis river, few miles
northeast. are affording good angling
TO fishermen. Good catches of var.
ious varieties of fish, including sal.
mon trout, steelhead trout and crap.
pies are made.
DR.. II. ]. Whitacre of Tacoma was
reelected president of the Public
Health league of Washington at its
annual meeting at Spokane held in
connection with the fifth annual ses-
sion of the Washington State Medical
association.