Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-04


Congress has passed the bill grant
ing franchise Jointly to Kittitas and
Grant counties for the construction of
toll bridge across the Columbia river
at Vantage, ON the North Central high
way Tentative plans az outlined by
the commissioners OF the two counties
call for bridge approximately 1900
feet In length TO cost about 100000
William Stevens, 40, was instantly
killed and three other men we're in,
jured at the Skokomish Logging com.
pany's camp near Alger, when flat
car, carrying eighteen men up As
per cent grade, dashed down hill and
jumped the rails. A cable attached
to the donkey engine pulling the car
broke.
Whitman county led all counties in
the United States In the value Of egri
cultural products exported per capita
in 1928, according to the 18th annual
report Of the state banking depart.
ment, With q population of approx.
mately $4,000, Whitman county pro.
duced 100000 bushels of wheat, or
nearly $500 per capita from wheat
alone.
That the eight-hour law for women
applies to all women employed in any
mercantile or mechanical establish
ment laundry, hotel or restaurant, "ir.
respective of the class of work she
may be doing" Is an opinion render.
ed by Acknowledgement Dunbar to the
department Of labor and industries.
The query especially referred to steno.
graphers.
Steady expansion of business ac.
tivity in the twelfth federal reserve
district, including the Pacific north
west, continues, according to sum,
mary of conditions in the district by
Chairman John Perrin Of the Twelfth
Federal Reserve bank. High levels
of 1928 were reached or surpassed dur.
ing February as shown by final reports
for that month.
An informal hearing Of charges that
D. L. Ferguson, King county auditor,
had collected money from employees
of his office was held by the board
of county commissioners Tuesday,
Prosecuting Attorney Douglas recent,
ly submitted an opinion that the board
] had no power to conduct formal in.
vestigation, but II 1t desired could hold
an informal hearing.
True bills charging conspiracy to
violate the United States banking laws
were returned at Walla Walla by a
federal grand jury against officials of
the First National bank, Charleston,
which closed Its doors in 1921. The
indicted are G. F. Waterman, G. H.
Waterman, w. A. Waterman and A.
e. Bauch, all of whom were directing
officers of the institution.
Extensive gold mining in the Mccoy
creek district In the Cascade noun
tains is expected as soon as the wealth.
err permits, according to reports re,
ceiyed. More than 800 claims have
been filed. Most of the properties
are near the Lewis county line In
Skamania county. Mccoy creek Is a
tributary of the Niggerhead river,
which empties into the Cowlitz river
near Randle.
Fifteen automobiles were seized at
Blaine, on the Canadian boundary
Sunday. The automobiles belong to
Americans who were returning from
Canada, and customs agents asserted
that they found liquor in the cars after
the drivers had asserted that there
was none A test is to be made with
these automobiles Of regulation that
machines be confiscated under such
circumstances.
Justice moved quickly at Tacoma in
the case Of Mrs. p. E. Pratt Mrs
Pratt, nurse, was arrested in con
nection with the death of Edith Hous
ton, age II, of Centralia, as the result
of criminal operation. Mrs. Pratt
pleaded guilty to the charge and was
sentenced to from one to 10 years in
the penitenttary by Judge w. o. Chap
man in superior court within 90 hours
after the death Of the girl.
The city of Tacoma has purchased
from the state Of Washington through
condemnation proceedings instituted
in the superior court OF Mason county
approximately 800 acres of school
lands desired for the Cushman power
protect and necessitated as an add
tion to the power site by changes in
plans of development. The agreed
price for the land was S12,025, about
$4,000 being represented by standing
timber which will eventually be log
ged off.