Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-20
News of the State.

r, M. Semmes, director of operations
for the shipping board in the North
Pacific district, with headquarters at
Seattle, has submitted his resignation
and will engage in private business
The state department of public
works has granted permission to the
SETTLE \ Rainier Valley railway to
install a weekly pass system under a
fourmonths trial, commencing April
2,
Miss Jessie Aspipwall, city treasurer
of Ellensburg, has resigned to accept
a position as manager of the book
department OF large store at Ha,
yana, Cuba. she plans to leave Ellens.
burg May /
Pioneers of the state last Saturday
gathered at point two miles north
OF Auburn and unveiled a monument
to the memory of those who died in
the famous battle of White River on
October 81, 1855.
Order OF disbarment against Edwin
H. Flick, Seattle attorney, was filed
in supreme court by Chief Justice
John F. Main. The action was taken
on Flick's own motion that his name
be stricken from the records.
seattle's city government has al.
ready piled up 1928 deficit of ap.
proximately $25O,OOO despite the fact
that only one-fourth the fiscal year has
passed, Chairman E, L. Blaine an
nounced to the council finance com
mittee.
The national guard of Washington
will go into summer encampment at
Camp Murray in June, and will receive
fen state pay as well as federal pay,
Governor Hart, ommander.in-chief of
the state military department, has an.
nounced.
One hundred men were given EN-.
ployment Monday with the opening OF
the Puget Sound Lumber & Box com.
pany in Seattle. The plant has ca.
pacity OF $4,000 feet in an eight hour
shift.
Production of lumber for the 1873
mills that reported to the West Coast
Lumbermen's association for the week
which ended March 81 was II per cent
above normal New business was 5
per cent above production and ship,
ments were Z per cent above new bust.
ness.
L. L. Thompson, Encouragement
has resigned his office to engage in the
practice of law in Tacoma, and appoint
ment of John H. Dunbar, assistant at.
torney-general for several years, to fill
the vacancy, was announced by Cover
nor Hart. The change became effec,
tive Monday.
The charge of grand larceny on
which D. W. Lamb, for is years chief
accountant of the Seattle city light de
partment, was brought to trial in the
superior court in Seattle, was dis.
missed by Judge Frater without per
hitting the introduction of any evi.
dence by the prosecution.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, state
superintendent of public instruction,
and Mrs. B. F. Westmore OF Spokane
were named by Governor Louis F.
Hart as delegates to the illiteracy con-
ference of Western states, to be held
ct Denver, Colo, April "a to %.
The Walter j. Nichols Stock Broker.
age company, defunct, of Spokane, was
found guilty by the supreme court OF
bucket shop dealings with Milhol
land and Hough, bondsmen, who EN-.
bezzled about S350,OOO belonging to
James F. Callahan, now deceased, and
a judgment was rendered against the
Walter ]. Nichols company in favor
of the estate of Callahan for 1902,
S4s.O5. The decision reversed the spo
kane county superior court
Six men. including a chief petty Of,
fleer, were rounded up and arrested
at Seattle, accused of a series of thefts
from the Puget sound navy yard at
! Brsmerton. In the possession of the
men we're found 400 tubes containing
medical serum valued at total of
| $500. Investigators said that pilfer.
lngs from stores at the yard had total.
ed thousands of dollars in recent
months.
! With $4,000 OF the funds appro-
prlated for the eastern state hospital
at Medical Lake work Will be started
shortly rehablitating and furnishing
the old custodial school building to
make additional space for the care of
] 200 insane patients, w. ]. hayes, dlrec.
tor Of business control, has announced.