Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-06-13

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oil reserve No, /, located in California.
Carl Ryberg, found guilty of murder
in the second degree by superior court
jury in May, was sentenced at Everett
to serve from twenty-five to thirty-five
years in the state prison. Ryberg was
accused of killing the mother of his
divorced wife, Mrs. Laura Mummey,
last February.
The Anacortes city council passed
| an order forbidding lawn and garden
sprinkling and car washing by use of
a hose, due to prospective water short.
| age. The action is expected to be
| temporary only, and will be cancelled
If city wells now being developed yield
the water anticipated.
The Cowlitz county commissioners
issued franchise to the town OF
Kalama for installation of gravity
water system pipeline from Italian
| creek along the William Voight Ka.
lama river and Fallert roads. An ex.
tension of the Stankey road near near
Silver lake was also established.
Kathleen Browning of Ellensburg
is the Washington state winner in the
essay contest conducted by the war
department on the subject, "Why
Young Man l Know Should Attend
the Training Camp" it is announced
by Captain c. A. Lundy, in charge of
the officers reserve corps at Spokane.
The Federal Land bank of Spokane
closed 20S first mortgage loans dur
ing May for $640,5O0 This brings the
total to date up to 32,501 loans closed
for approximately $98,000,00O. Amort-
lied payments over the seven years
the bank has been operating have re-
duced the amount of loans now out
standing to about sS9,000,O00.
The Washington State Grange in
session at Vancouver decided to hold
its 1925 convention at Pullman, the
only city appearing for the honor of
entertaining the grangers. Long Beach
has extended an invitation i, meet in
that city in 1927, which VIII be the
first year in which the convention
will again be held west of the Gas.
cade range.
Following conference in Mount
Vernon with four men of standing in
Tacoma, accused of an $4,000 holdup
of the Citizens State bank at Ana
cortes, April l, Prosecuting Attorney
Gilbert announced that charges against |
them would not be dropped The four
men are David w. Nadeau, Russell R.
Evans Lawrence H. Lee and Warren |
l.. Ridley, who are at liberty on bonds |
of $4,000 each.
A report made at a directors meet
ing OF the Washington Growers Pack |!
ing association at Vancouver showed |
that growers owning 364O acres of
bearing prune orchards had signed
to market their crops through the as.
sociation for another five-year period,
extending from 1925 when the old five.
year agreements expire. Only $500
acres were required to make the as
sOciation success.
A cut of cents an hour in the
Four-L sawmills of eastern Washing
ton and northern Idaho was agreed
upon by the wage board OF districts
and 10 1t was announced by j. NJ
Pond, financial official of the Four-L
organization. 1t was estimated that
the cut would affect 10000 men and
said it was hoped, by this means, to
prevent suspension of some of the
mills. The new scale is to become
effective on July Is.
By decision of the state supreme
court William Voight loses his fight
to obtain his release on habeas corpus
proceedings from the state peniten-
tiary, where he is serving a life sen
tence for a murder committed in
Clarke county in 1918. Voight was sen.
fenced by the court wholly upon his
plea of guilty to the charge of first
degree murder without the impaneling
of jury to hear the evidence, de
termine the degree of guilt and fix the
penalty as provided by law, where de.
PENDANT pleads guilty.
Another angle in the Mount Rainier
controversy presented itself when
teller in one of the Seattle banks OBJ.
served the name Tacoma" had been
out in two places and the
word Rainier" written in ink over it
on a $40 note issued by the Puget
Sound National bank OF Tacoma. Al.
though there was no attempt to raise
he denomination of the bank note,
federal operatives became interested
md were seeking the artist who ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with the
governments design of this particular
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