Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-17

appraised for sale by the United
States forest service.
About five hundred cars of apples
were blown off the trees In the Wenat-
chez valley during heavy wind
storm. Number One and Two Can
yons, Wheeler Hill and the Millerdale
district were hardest hit
The action Of the state board of
equalization in granting Okanogan
county a raise in its assessment ratio
will result in the Great Northern rail.
roads paying taxes on valuation ST..
500 higher than last year.
Reginal Boyer, 81, who pleaded
guilty to petty larceny at Seattle, ad-
hitting that he had been a profess
sional short-change artist for years,
was given maximum of Is years in
the Wa!la Walla penitentiary.
Kalle Rhine, 35, master of the troll
ing boat Union, and until recently
proprietor Of the Hotel Charleston in
Seattle, and Gust Cornelius, his help
err were drowned off the mouth Of the
Columbia river, according to reports.
Robert Franklin, q, was deprived
of his drivers license at Spokane
when police testified that he attempt
ed to kiss a girl riding in the sidecar
Of his motorcycle while travelling at
a rate Of speed in excess of IS miles
an hour
Foley Payne, an alleged rum runner,
was seriously wounded and George D.
Murray, federal prohibition agent
was shot in the chest In pistol battle
between United States border patrol
agents and suspected rum runners
near Curlew, in Ferry county.
With the completion OF third emer-
gency line across Ebey Slough at Ev-
verett, where the big 30-inch pipeline
went out Sunday, the threatened crisis
in the city water situation is believed
averted and the necessity of shutting
down the numbering plants has passed.
The 1925 convention of the Ameri-
can Library association will be held
in Seattle, probably the latter part of
June, according to a message received
by Judson T. Jennings, librarian of
the Seattle Public Library, from Carl
Milan, national secretary of the or.
ganization.
Automobile license receipts for the
first nine months of 1924 exceed the
total receipts of 1923 by more than a
half million dollars, according to fig
ures compiled by the license division
Total collections to October / were
s4,427,50S as compared with 1885, 597
for all of 1928.
/ Married students cannot attend pub
lie high school in Spokane was the
decision OF Superior Judge Hugo Os
valid, after three days deliberatio1
over the case of Denton Mclean, who
was expelled from North Central higl
school recently when 1t was discover
ed he was married.
With Mrs. Matthew Simpson
Hughes, widow of the late Bishoy
Hughes of Portland, presiding, tn.
32nd annual meeting of the Columbi;
river branch of the Women's Foreign
Missionary society of the Methods
Episcopal church, was held in Belling
ham with about $50 delegates in at
tendance.
With more than 10000 acres II
peas, grown primarily for seed farm
ers of the Fairfield district are keenly
interested in the probabilities of the
market for the next few years. The
Fairfield district has harvested thi.
year something like 10000 bushels o
peas at contract prices of from l..
to 4 IL cents pound.
w. NJ Montgomery, Anaconda
Mont, was named president, genera
manager and financial executive o
the Rainier corporation, which ha
taken over the plant Of the Rainie
; Brewing and Mating company at Sc
attic. Mr.. Montgomery announced
. that the plant would be remodeled int,
wool warehouse, meat packing
plant and soap factory.
Junior citizens of Aberdeen hav,
registered to the number OF 1900 TO
an election October Is when Officers
for all the elective offices in the cit,
will be selected by Australian balIo
system as in regular elections. TIL
city wards will elect one councilman
each. and all will vote on mayor, clerI
and auditor Only children whose pal
ents are citizens are permitted t
register.
Meeting at the Seattle chamber o
commerce representatives of Wasl
ington elites organized "Washingto
Month" executive committee to CT
operate with three transcontinenta
railroads next January In publicit