Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-17
Washington News


at Grand Mound recently, The auto
was demolished, pieces Of the ma
chine being strewn 200 feet along the
right-of-way The train did not stop.
Wagner was found by passing motor
lists and taken to the hospital.
BELLINGHAM. = Fifty-two thou
sand cases of salmon and 800 cannery
workers from King Cove and Squaw
Harbor, Alaska, were aboard the Pa
citic American Fisheries steamboat
Catherine d., Captain w. b. knight,
when she arrived here recently. She
will make one more voyage north this
year and will return early in October
with the pack of the Boring River
plant. She and the company's steam
ship Redwood will then go into dry
dock in Seattle and will spend the
winter here. The Redwood is due
here September 26 on her last voyage
from Alaska this season. She will
have a full cargo of salmon and few
aIaery employees.
WALLA WALLA. = Thinking that
he was giving his six-months-old
daughter teaspoonful of castor oil,
Robert Mitchen, an occupant of the
automobile camping ground here,
found that he had given her poison in
stead The little girl sustained Sc
we're burns, but physicians say she
may recover.
SEATTLE. = Another coyote for
sock his country home to settle in the
Queen City recently, but contrary to
the hospitable reception rendered his
brother denizens of the wild, that was
captured at Broadway and Alder
Street three weeks ago, this second
member of the bowling tribe was
slaughtered in cold blood. A group of
small boys playing at the western
edge of the University of Washing
ton, came Unexpectedly upon the
beast and fled in terror to the home
VI thal oldl II leu
nearby, when it snapped at them.
Bloom shot the creature within 80
yards of his house. It was full
grown animal weighing about 40
pounds, and bore no evidence of ever
having been tanned, Bloom said
| OLYMPIA.-Acting Governor W. ].
Coyle issued proclamation designat.
ing the week of October 10 to October
is as Alaska Week, and Saturday,
October IS as Alaska Day. The pur,
chase of Alaska from Russia was
made on October IS, 1867, and the
purpose Of observing the day is to
stimulate interest in the development
of that vast territory. The acting
governor requests that all the people
join in properly observing the day.
This is in connection with Alaska
Week, sponsored by the Young Mems
Business Club of Seattle.
RANDLE.-Henry Koher, abed 81
years, was drowned recently while
spearing salmon in the Cowlitz River
about II miles below Randle. AS the
river is very swift at the place where
he lost his balance, the body has
not been recovered. He was unmar-
ried and member of prominent
family in eastern Lewis County.
No rfn 1,rH ND
dairymen of Southwest Washington
will have an opportunity Tuesday, Oc-
tober IA, at the Elma Fair Grounds,
to select COWS and heifers of the Hol-
stein breed to add to their milking
herds, animals that will be a credit
to them and that will be in a condi-
ton to yield profit from the moment
they become members of those herds
OLYMPIA.-A man confined in the
county jail for more than 80 days does
not thereby gain residence in the
precinct in which the Jail is located,
but remains q resident of the precinct
where he resided when incarcerated.
HcIS 10 ~ lSuoOh why Il pCloOh Sew
ing a term in a county or city jail may
not vote if he can get to the voting
place, and is properly registered, AT.
torney-General Dunbar holds in an
opinion to Prosecutor Mcguire of Ell,
lensburg.
VAUDEVILLE. Superintendent
Hill of the state experiment station
reports that moisture for September
was .93 of an inch. This is more than
the normal Since January 1, the pre-.
cipitation has been 4.2O inches. In
1928 it was 500 inches. The normal
is S.55,
SEATTLE.-Fo the first time in
the history of the University of Wash,
ington, members of the faculty will
be required to wear their full regalia
of academic robes at the first all-Uni,
versity assembly. The assembly has
been called for President Henry SUI.
zallos annual address OF welcome to
the new students.
BREM ERTON. - Shooting Chinese