Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-03

that persons going to the mountains
or on fishing trips may start camp
fires without obtaining permits.
Fire starting east OF Alder and
about eight miles south of l.atOnyille
was blown by a 40.milo wind until it
covered territory from one.hulf
mile to five miles wide and between
15 and 20 miles long. The damage
to timber was heavy.
Efforts to save the life of Thomas
Walton, an inmate Of the Walla Walla
penitentiary, under sentence of death
for the murder of S. p. Burt, fellow
convict, have failed, the state supreme
court having affirmed judgment OF the
Walla Walla county court.
The portion of the western state
hospital for the insane at Steilacoom
which was detroyed by fire will be re.
built at once, w. j. Hayes, director OF
the department OF business control, an
nounced. The loss was estimated by
Mr.. Hays to be less than $4,000.
John w. Gordon was appointed
supervisor of the division Of indus
trial insurance to succeed G. l.. Snuff,
appointed director by Governor Louis
F. Hart recently. Mr.. Gordon was
claim agent in the department. e. S.
Franklin, Seattle, has been named
claim agent.
w. A. H. Birley, chairman of the
Lewis county board of commissioners,
has been advised by L. j. Fenby, for
est service superintendent, that plans
had been determined upon to eXpend
at once an unused balance of $685.
135 in improving the main highway be-
tween Randle and the Cora bridge.
Lieutenant,Governo w. j. Coyle be-
came acting governor of the state
when Governor Hart and State Treas
urer Babcock left for New York Sun
day night. Governor Hart and Mr..
Babcock will confer with the states
fiscal agent in New York and will be
gone for some time, it was announced.
Two Seattle detectives, Ross Wat.
son and John NJ Majewski, We're dis
missed from the Seattle police depart
ment following an investigation OF
charges that they had offered to bribe
a deputy prosecuting attorney to Sc
cure duplicate copies OF the confession
of an accomplice in the recent S22,-
600 Bon Marche holdup.
Mother of four children, Mrs. Tony
Sunich, convicted by a jury of assault
ing Jack Elkin of Tacoma with a
butcher knife during an alleged
drunken brawl," must serve a term
in the penitentiary at Walla Walla.
She was sentenced to from one to ten
years by Judge Ernest NJ. Card in
superior court at Tacoma.
Adams county farmers have done
good deal of seeding, but complain
that field mice are doing great dam
age. One man near Hatton had a
large quantity of poisoned grain put
out and the next day he counted near
ly 1000 dead mice. They dig the seed
grain out and cache it for future use.
The county agent is distributing poi
soned grain to farmers at cost.
l.. l.. Satterwhite was sentenced at
kelso to from to Is years in the
penitentiary for manslaughter for the
death of James Turnbull 12-year-old
Kelso boy, killed by Satterwhite's auto
mobile. Satterwhite escaped from the
Cowlitz county Jail after he was SEN
fenced and escaped from a Seattle
policeman who sought to arrest him,
but was captured in Seattle later.
Suspected of being implicated in a
plot to smuggle arms and ammuni-
ton into Canada, to be shipped to
China, where revolution is in pro-
gress, one Canadian and two Amer
ican-born Chinese are held in Jail at
Bellingham. They were arrested near
the Canadian-American boundary line
with ten boxes OF guns and ammuni-
ton concealed in large automobile.
Instructions to complete negotia-
lions with the Northern Pacific Rail
way company for the purchase Of 1881
acres OF land in Clarke and Skamania
counties, to be included in the state
reforestation project, We're given c. V.
Savidge, state land commissioner, at
special meeting of the state forest
board. The board has contracted TO
purchase these lands at SIPS an acre.
Members of the Wenatchee Sports
mems club went on record as being OPP
posed to the elimination of the county
game commissions and putting their
work in the hands of state board
Proposed new game and fish legisla-
ton provides that the preservation
and propagation of fish and game shall
be done through the state department.