Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-15
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief NEWS ITEMS
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TO discuss problems that confron
fruit growers, an all-day communit!
meeting was held at Kettle Falls.
A saving of onc.third will be made
by Clarke county under a new con
tract for feeding county prisoners.
Thomas Il. P. Keegan, IS, chief OF
police of juneau, Alaska, died sud
denly of heart disease at a Seattle
hotel.
Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, councilman
and the first woman candidate to file
for mayor in Seattle, has withdrawn
from the race
More than sixty potato growers OF
Whatcom county have decided to form
a cooperative organization to market
and sell their products.
a petition for incorporation of Win.
throp has been circulated and hear
ing before okanogan county commits
sioners will be held Friday.
The First National bank of Clark
ston, with some 1900 depositors and
deposits reported as $297OOO, was clos.
ed by order of the directors
Edwin L. Johnson, 80, of Spokane,
has completed 26-day fast and de-
clared that rheumatic trouble of long
standing apparently has been cured.
The annual meeting of the Lewis
County Contrasting association was
held in Chehalis At present 3S dairy
men are members, representing 700
cows.
Miss Kate Harter, 20, is dead and
Lawrence Stackman, about 80, was
fatally wounded and died as the re.
suit of a mysterious shooting affair
at Pullman.
A slide that brought down about
500 tons of rock and dirt carried out
part of wooden bridge on the c., NJ.
& st. P railroad between Box canyon
and Metaline Falls.
The Panhandle Lumber company of
lone made record last month in
shipping out cars, 1t shipped 12S cars
of finished lumber and lath and a
number OF cars of ties.
The 25th anniversary of the battle
of Santa Anna, fought on February 4,
1899, was celebrated by members of
company G, First Washington volun-
teers, with a banquet at Vancouver.
AT public auction in the courthouse
at Cathlamet, the state of Washington
sold 37060S acres of timber land in
the Cathlamet district. The total re-
ceived for the property was $21O,249.
Angelo Pierucciani is dead, riddled
with bullets and knife wounds, and
Orccucci Grovanni is in the county
Jail at South Bend as the result of a
shooting and knitting ARRAY in Ray
mond.
A Great Northern passenger train
was wrecked one mile north of Repub-
lie when huge boulder rolled onto
the track. The train was running at
low speed and a serious accident was
averted.
Marvin Chase, supervisor of by.
has granted a permit to the
city of Centralia to divert twenty cubic
feet of water second from the Skoo- |
river to municipal water
supply system,
Searching for John Doyle, a ranch.
er in the Boston harbor district about
u miles from Olympia, Sheriff Jack
son and Deputy Sheriff Hardwick dis
covered the dead body at the bottom
of an abandoned well.
The run of smelt in the Cowlitz
river has been unusually light to date,
but fishermen are anticipating the
main run of fish at any time. Ship.
nents to date have not been nearly
IS large as in former years.
Complaint challenging the facilities
and service OF the Western Union
Telegram company at South Bend, Pa
;ific county has been entered by the
state department of public works and
IN investigation and hearing will be
leld
Anacortes Carpenters union, which
Includes the carpenters Of Sedro-Wool-
ey and Mount Vernon have volunteer. {
ID to supply all labor required in cree. {
ion Of the summer camp home Of the /
amp Fire Girls of skagit county on
'amish island Il
Dr. Howard Clommer of Spokane
vas reelected president of the motion
icture lheater owners of Washington
nd L. A. Drinhwine of Tacoma vice
resident and j. NJ. Holmes of Seattle
at a meeting Of S
he organization in Seattle.
Ten rainloads OF apples from the
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