Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-31
Washington News

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assembly" of the year held recently,
The family assembly" is the occa'
sion OF President Henry SuSzallo's
first address to the new students, and
marks the first formal introduction
of the freshmen to faculty members
and students as whole In past
years the faculty members have worn
their academic robes, with the many
colored hoods signifying their col.
leges and degrees, only in the com
mencement procession.
TACOMA. - Tacoma claimants OF
the 10 living black silver fox pups Of
20 born while their parents wore hold
libeled by the government last spring
on fraudulent customs entry charge
may have the babies whenever they
pay the government for the expenses
and costs OF holding the young, Judge
jeremiah Neterer ordered recently.
The "a parents, still held at fox
farm on the Des Moines road, pending
settlement of the controversy, will
be kept at government expense at the
rate of $625 month apiece, it was
ordered at the same time.
ELLENSBURG.-F Clemens, a
coal miner of Gle Elum, near here,
made no effort to save himself, ac
cording to eye-witnesses, when his
automobile stalled on the Northern
Pacific Railway tracks at Nelson Sid
ing, 40 miles west of Eliensburg, and
was killed by southbound train re-
Gently.
POTTSVILLE.-The piteous yelp.
ing of a dog which fell down mine
breech so aroused the sympathy of
William Smith, William Rosenberger
and George Dresher, miners, at the
Rosenberg coliery, recently, that they
risked their own lives and went down
the breech 500 feet and rescued the
animal, hosting themselves out by
rope. The dog, a black-andtan, bore
collar which identified his owner,
but he was so grateful to his rescuers
that he refused to leave them.
CHEHALIS. = Mrs. Murna Hazel
letters, aged 80, a resident of Hanna
ford Valley, died in a Centralia hos
pital recently as the result Of burns
received when she tainted and fell
into the fireplace. Her husband, Aaron
Jeffers, survives. The body was sent
to Kent, where Mrs. LETTERS father, C.
l.. Taylor, resides.
NEAH BAY.-Approximately $780,
900 worth of fish were caught in the
Neah Bay district during the last year
by hook and line fishermen, accord
ing to w. w. Washburn, merchant of
the town.
OLYMPIA.-Up to September 30,
total of s12,479,541 has been paid by
the state of Washington in veterans
compensation claims, numbering ST.
1926, according to report of the veter-
ans compensation department to
State Auditor C. w. Clausen. In ad.
dition, S103,475 was spent for admin
istrative costs, $3.50 in capital out,
lay and $4,000 for bond purchase,
making total of s12,6OS,S96. There
are 574 claims still pending.
EVERETT. = Ellsworth Stark, 16,
son of e j. Stark of Pinehurst, is iii
hospital here suffering from gun
shot wound received recently, when
the weapon in his boat exploded as
he was about to return from hunt
ing trip Off the jetty,
VANCOUVER, Wash.-Beaver in,
stinct for aquatic engineering has
marked a colony of beavers at Bid
dies cutoff, six miles east OF here, on
the North Bank Highway, for total
determination by the game warden.
The beavers have incurred official
displeasure by building dam across
culvert beside the North Bank
highway. The dam causes the water
to rise and floods the highway, max
ing travel difficult
HoBART.-Adolph Brandt, Al, a
rancher at Hobart, was killed recent
ly when shotgun he was carrying
was discharged when he tripped and
fell Brandt was on his way to feed
his pigs, carrying the shotgun under
his arm. He intended to hunt pleas
ants later. He tripped, and as he fell
cast the gun away from him, but the
trigger caught in the plank walk, fir
ing the gun, The charge of shot
pierced his heart. He leaves a widow
and three children.
TACOMA. = The Shenandoah has
come and gone She sailed from
Lakehurst, ~ j., her landing place in
the West being Camp Lewis, where
she arrived on Saturday, October 1S
She stayed there one night, then
started on her return trip to Lake
hurst, N. j. She headed north for Sc
attic to give that city as well as
Bremerton the thrill of seeing the
first dirigible to make the trip across
the continent, Upon her arrival at
Lakehurst on the Atlantic Coast she