Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-09-26

Live stock receipts at the Spokane
Union stockyards for the first half OF
September aggregated l0,320 animals,
or 1874 carloads, compared with 5lO7
animals In the same period Of 1923,
a gain this year of 4022 animals, or
A carloads
A petition askingCconsolidatlon Of
HIllyard, u railroad shop town, with
Spokane, was submitted to the Spo.
kane city council by Mayor Brown Of
HIilyard, In an election Tuesday the
voters of Hillyard adopted n CONSOLE.
dalton proposal.
c. A. Mccarthy, ex.unlted States
prohibition agent In Florida arrested
In Seattle by federal authorities on his
arrival aboard the steamship Presl.
dent Grant on adYIces from Florida
officials, swallowed poison and died
n short time later.
With crew Of Is mon and women
working day and night the plant of
the Grays Harbor Canning company
at Montesano is at the crest of the
busiest season In its history. The
years pack already has overflowed
storage space In the plant.
Sale of 1,25O,OOo feet of yellow pine
timber on nearly 100 acres in the
Wenatchee national forest, north OF
Fish lake, to the Great Northern Lum-
Der company was announced by Forest
Supervisor Sylvester. The selling
price was $3.50 thousand.
Richard Conner was indicted by the
federal grand jury at Tacoma for the
murder of his wife last May. The
case was thrown into the federal
courts by the fact that the body of
Mrs. Conner was found in a well on
the United States reservation at Camp
Lewis.
As result of the arrest in the sum-
mer of four prominent Tacoma men
on charges of bank robbery, four dam
age suits asking judgment aggregating
$205,201 against IL officers who par.
ticipated in the arrests were filed in
the Pierce county superior court by
the now exonerated men.
Engineers recently appointed on a
federal commission 70 investigate the
Columbia basin projects feasibility for
the federal reclamation bureau are
on the ground and are making their
first field surveys. In the number are
DR., Richard r. Lyman, DR.. o. L. Wal.
Ter, Joseph Jacobs and Arthur ]. Turn.
er.
Il. ]. Cantanwine, Walla Walla, was
elected president OF state association
of county commissioners, and Roy L.
Green, Lewis county, president of the
state association of county engineers,
at the closing convention sessions of
both organizations in Bellingham. Spo.
kane was selected as the next con-
vention city.
Despite written protest signed by
George A. hoffman, ex.mayor, and 16S
others, and Mottmans letter threaten
ing court action to restrain them, the
Olympia city council passed an ordi-
nance authorizing issuance of $4,000
more bonds against the city water
plant, TO pay for contemplated i'm
provements.
Colonel Roland II. Hartley Of Ever
EFT was nominated for governor in
the recent republican primary by
plurality of 1871 votes over Senator
French of Vancouver, according to of
fetal figures from county auditors in
SO counties of the state. The official
figures show that Hartley received
5S,SS6 votes and French $685..
The retail price of milk in Seattle
has been cut to cents a quart and
cents pint rs the result of new
milk. war between the Seattle Milk
Shippers association and the May
flower dairy, one of the largest dis,
Sibuting organizations in Seattle. The
price to the farmer producers has haen
cut from $3.50 to Sl.SO per hundred
pounds.
Although Cowlitz is one of the
smaller counties of the state in popu-
lation, II ran'.ed th,rd in increa in
the school census figure over thar lor
1928, mailing gain of 1747 children
OF school census age in the year and
bringing the total to 5000. The coun-
ty vas exceeded only by Ktng and
Pierce and had the largest percentage
of increase in the state.
Mere than 10 per cent of the clearing
work on the 5O,miie unfinished sec
ton of the Olympic highway is com
pleted. Between Lunch creek, IL
miles west of Quinault, and the Queets
river the clearing work is almost done
and the stretch between he Queets
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