Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-04


will take charge of the campaign
against the wire worm and the leaf
hopper sugar beet pests on the Yakima
Indian reservation July l, when the
emergency fund appropriated by con.
gress becomes available.
Charles H. Leavy of Spokane was
elected president; Malcolm Douglas of
King county vice-president and Joseph
E. Hall of Clarke county was re-elect-
ed secretary and treasurer of the state
prosecutors association at the annual
convention held in Spokane.
Fire believed to have started from
an overheated stove in restaurant
caused damage estimated at $4,000
in Deming, IS miles east of Belling-
ham. The fire destroyed number Of
frame buildings in the business dis
trict, including the postoffice.
Russell R. Evans, reputed wealthy
glass can manufacturer, exconvict and
one of the four prominent Tacomans
recently arrested and accused of the
$4,000 robbery Of the Citizens State
bank of Anacortes will be held by the
state to account for the holdup.
James Mcintosh, said to be a
wealthy planning mill owner of Stock
ton, Cal, was charged with kidnap-
ing his two nephews, Arthur Mcintosh,
age IL, and Jack Mcintosh, age s, in
a complaint filed in justice court at
Seattle by Deputy Prosecutor Ralph
Hammer.
The sum OF $4,000 toward another
dividend for the depositors of the de.
funct Scandinavian-Amer bank of
Tacoma was made available when the
supreme court decided against the Ma,
tional Surety company, holding the
firm liable to the, extent of its surety
bond for that amount.
Motions for dismissal of charges
against David w. Nadeau, Lawrence
H. Lee and Warren L. Ridley of Ia.
coma, who were accused of holding
up the Citizens State bank of Ana
cortes, April IA, were filed in the
Skagit county superior court at Mount
Vernon by Prosecutor Gilbert.
Judge Everett Smith dismissed a
suit at Vancouver for an injunction
filed by opponents of the Shillapoo-
Vancouver lake drainage project
against the county commissioners to
restrain them from selling the bonds
and letting contracts for the construc-
tion work The case will be appealed
to the supreme court.
Contracts for improving the North
Bank highway from Washougal east to
the Clarke county line probably will
be let this fall. The distance is four
miles and the cost will approximate
100000, half of which will be paid by
the federal government and half from
interstate bridge tolls. The improve
ment will consist of grading and
graveling.
The bid Of the Hedlund Box Lumber
company of Spokane on 337,120,0OO
feet of ripe timber on $1,000 acres
comprising the Twin Lakes unit of
the Colville Indian reservation, Wash
ingtcIo, was accepted by the interior
department. The bid was S315 a
thousand feet for yellow pine and S1.O2
for Douglas fir and larcb. Proceeds
will go to the Indians.
Instructions to call off the state fair
at Yakima for this year were issued
by Governor Hart to the director of
agriculture. The governor said that
calling off the state fair would not
necessarily mean that other fairs
would be prohibited, but If necessary
a quarantine order at any of the other
fairs would be issued, prohibiting the
exhibition of cloyen-foot stock.
Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the dean
of science in the University of Wash
ington and acting mayor of Seattle,
in the absence of DR.. Edwin j. Brown,
mayor, at the democratic national con
vention in New York city, has taken
personal charge of the police depart
ment. Mrs. Landes designated Cap
tain Claude G, Bannick, formerly chief
of the department to be her aid.
The state department of the G. A.
R., in annual encampment at Everett,
approved a resolution submitted by
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