Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-11


Alter terrori2ing residents of Ocean
Park, n summer resort in Pacific coun.
ty, for more than n week by break
ing into homes and firing revolver
on the streets, man who gave his
name as II. 3. MelIinger was captured
by the sheriff and taken to South Bend
for trial.
An airplane made It's debut in direct
legislation when the Rev John r.
Lanigan, pastor OF st. Margaret's
Catholic church, Seattle, arrived in
Olympia in the airship with more than
600 Withdrawals OF signatures from
initiative measure No. 40, the compul.
sorry school bill,
With 62,533 valid signatures claim
ed by the filers of the measure, the
Bone power bill, officially known as
initiative measure No. 80, was formal.
ly filed with Secretary Of State J.
Grant EIinkle at Olympia. The reQuir'
ed number of valid signatures is 3d.
GAL, being 10 per cent Of the last vote
for governor.
Fumigation stations maintained at
Columbia river points for the disin.
fecting of tourists automobiles and
equipment in accordance with the foot
and mouth disease quarantine may be
closed on or about July 10, 1t is an
nounced by Frank II. Gloyd, newly
appointed director Of the department
of agriculture.
Separate trials for Roland H.
Pothier and Robert Rosenbluth, charg.
ed with the murder of Major Alex
ander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis in
1918, were granted by Judge T. Z.
Cushman in federal court at Tacoma.
The trial of Pothier will start Sep
TENDER 30 and that of Rosenbluth i'm.
mediately thereafter.
Allotments for rivers and harbor
improvements under the act of con-
gress, approved June 7, announced by
the war department for this fiscal
year, included in Washington: Skamo-
kawa creek, $780, Grays harbor and
bar entrance, $4,000; Grays harbor
between Aberdeen and Chehalis river,
Thomas D. Page Seattle lawyer, and
brother of Mrs. Miles Poindexter wife
of the United States ambassador to
Peru, was arrested at Seattle charged
with possession and transportation of
intoxicating liquors in violation of the
Volstead act. The complaint was
sworn out by F. A. Eazeltine divi-
sional director of the prohibition
forces
Tom Copeland, owner of farm in
the foothills region near Walla Walla,
completed harvesting on 20.acre field
of wheat near his house and was
surprised to find that instead of q
yield of 50 bushels to the care, as he
had estimated, he had more than so
bushels. Similar reports of yields en-
Ceeding expectations were coming
from other farmers in the Walla Walla
valley.
The school bill, initiative No. 40, was
filed with Secretary of State Hinkle
at Olympia by Ben II. Britton of Ia
coma, one of the proponents of the
measure and trustee of the Wash
ington Good Government league, which
has been obtaining signatures for the
petitions. A total Of 55,6SS valid
signatures have been obtained, ac-
cording to John A. Jeffry of Seattle,
chairman of the executive committee
of the league.
Initiative measure No. SO, common
ly known as the "4O-mill tax levy
limit" bill was filed by John F. Adams,
Seattle, proponent of the measure,
with ]. Grant Hinkle, secretary Of
state, at Olympia. In statement ac-
companying the petitions, Mr.. Adams
declared more than $4,000 valid sigma
lures were secured for the bill The
4O.mill tax measure would limit the
tax levy on real estate to 40 mills for
all state, county, city and district pur-
poses.
With SO fatalities in the extra haz-
ardous employments for June, the
month maintained about the usual
average, while the non-ratal acct
dents were 3O13, making a total of
3O46, according to report of Director
Durham OF the fatal accidents 20
were in logging camps and numbering
plants. The increase of total acct
dents for June was but ~ per cent
over June last year, when they num-
bered 301G. Total accidents for the
first six months of 1924 total 1O,4S0,
as against 1888 for the first half of