Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-28
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

wreck tne DulldlnBS or the Spruce
Production corporation on the enlnrg.
ed aviation field at Vancouver and
the work is under way. The contract
calls for completion within 80 days,
with all material, including concrete
foundations, removed. The loss on
war time cost on the Spruce Produc.
tion plant was comparatively small,
not more than 10 per cent, according
to officials Of the corporation. The
plant was built in 80 days and cut
137,0O0,000 feet of spruce and fir lum.
ber from February, 1918, until short
time after the armistice was signed
when 1t was closed.
Formulation Of a program for tn,
opening of the Ocean Beach highway
extending from Kelso to the sea, will
be considered by gathering of repre-
sentatives from Kelso, Longview
Cathlamet and Skamokawa soon.
Steven Wash, 2S World war veter
an, killed in a planning machine al
Cosmopolis, committed suicide by
feeding himself to the planer, accord
ing to deposition made to Coroner
Lawrence Hopkinson by William
Perry, helper at the machine.
With a view of conducting an ex
pertinent with rat exterminator thai
it is claimed will spread contagious
disease and exterminate rats without
an odor, the Spokane city health of
flee is having colony of eight rats
assembled for making a test.
AS a means of Identifying purchas
ers Of firearms who use the weapons
for criminal purposes. Chief Of Police
McCrite will ask the Vancouver city
council to pass an ordinance compel
ing dealers to take fingerprint o!
every person purchasing gun or re
volver.
The gasoline schooner Boxer, owned
and operated by the Alaska branch Of
the United States bureau of educa
tion, arrived at Seattle from the Arctic
with 1882 seal skins, valued at $252,
900. The skins came from the govern
ment sealery, the Probilof islands, il
Bering sea.
Earnings of the Tacoma municipal
light and power department for Octo
ber were $4,000 above those of the
same month in 1923, as reported by
Commissioner Ira S. Dawson. The ex
penses of the month were $15,OOt
above those of October, 1928, leaving
a net gain of $4,000.
The biennial banquet to members
of the state legislature, given by citi
zens of Tacoma for the last 16 years
will occur next January 10, It has been
decided. Invitations are being sent tc
all members of the new legislature, tc
all state officials and to prominent
citizens of the state.
County Game Warden McCurdy has
released 676 Chinese pheasants in A
places in Clarke county, extending
from Chelatchie Prairie to Vancouver
since the hunting season closed
November l. The birds were purchas
ed in Oregon and held at the county
fish hatchery on Cold creek.
John A. Mcmillan, 60, and Robert
Cunning, II, prominent Spokane men
and owners of considerable city prop.
erty and farm lands, were killed al.
most instantly near Cheney, when the
automobile in which they were riding
skidded on wet pavement and over.
turned crushing them beneath the
car
Walter Smia, Yakima Indian, plac.
ed in the county Jail at Yakima after
a drinking bout and fight with other
Indians near Buena, narrowly escap.
ed drowning in the Jail bathtub, where
he went to sleep with the water turn.
ed on, after being placed in the tub
by fellow prisoners who objected to
his condition.
Ratification of the federal child
labor amendment by the Washington
Legislature was urged at the state con.
vention of the Washington League OF
Women Voters in Seattle. The league
will also cooperate with the women's S
Legislative council in maintaining a
lobby at Olympia to urge its view upon
the legislators.
State and federal cooperation in
reclamation, settlement and develop
ment was urged in an address written
by DR.. Elwood Mead, federal commits
sioner of reclamation, and read be
fore the twelfth annual meeting OF
the Washington Irrigation institute
at Yakima. DR.. Mead was unable to
attend the meeting.
There is an epidemic Of grip a
Chewelah which Is almost Influenza.