Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

of the state Camp Fire Girls meets
in Olympia Friday, Saturday and Sun
day.
Three men were stabbed, one OF
them believed fatally, following a
quarrel at Grayland, 30 miles south
west of Hoquiam.
The Clarke county 1924 prune crop
will total S,5OO,0O0 pounds, according
to w. H. Wood, association manager,
which exceeds previous estimates.
An octogenarian banquet was held
at the First Christian church in
Wenatchee and was attended by ~
persons who had passed so years.
A tuberculosis clinic will be held
under direction of the Lewis County
Anti.Tuberculosis league in Chehalis
and Winlock Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Stephen Merrill, 36, a world war
veteran and native Of Satsop, was
killed when struck by road scraper
on county road job on the Satsop
river.
One hundred fifty buck deer have
been killed in Cbelan county during
the open season. This is from 60 to
10 more than have been killed in
any previous season Of record.
For nearly one years delay in the
construction of the tunnel on Sc
attle's municipal power project up the
Skagit river, the city has assumed
responsibility for all but "a days.
Bert Healey, Wahkiakum county
commissioner for four years, has ten
dered his resignation with the explain
alton that he could not devote the
time necessary to county business.
Representative of taxpayers from
towns in Whitman county met at Col
fax and protested against using the
roads for heavy trucks and stages
during the season when the roads are
soft.
Richard Conner, convicted of mur.
der in the firjt degree for killing his
wife, was sentenced to life term in
the Mcneil Island penitentiary Dy
Judge Cushman in federal court at
Tacoma.
A joint resolution, proposing rati'
fication by the state of Washington OF
a child labor amendment, will be in,
troduced lho first week the state leg.
islature mee,5 by Senator Landon, lie
has announceG
Following I'll amputation OF his
right leg, v Z. was crushed when
the lad was struck by an oil truck,
Willis W'sa Il, So. of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. E. WISE Of O .lipia, died at an
Olympia hospital.
w. s. Cahill, traffic manager of the
Port of Seattle, reports that the city
is to ship approximately 100000
bushels of wheat this season, or three
times more than was exported from
Seattle last year.
For the fourth time in "a years the
United States geographic board has
ruled against changing the name OF
Mount Rainier TO Mount Tacoma. The
latest report was by unanimous de-
cision of the board.
The Spokane mobile unit Of the
Shriners crippled children's hospitals,
declared to be the first of several pro
jected units in various parts Of the
United States, was opened in st.
Luke's hospital in Spokane.
The H. H. Martin Lumber com.
pany's mill in Centralia was sold at
auction in Tacoma by R. F. Laffoon
referee in bankruptcy, to S. A. Agnew
for $4,000 The sale is subject to
confirmation by the federal court.
Adolphus Graupner of the United
States board of tax appeals viii &c
to the Pacific northwest soon to con.
duct hearings in federal income and
corporation tax matters. Hearings will
be held at Spokane, Seattle and Ia,
coma.
Total net earnings of the interstate
bridge which spans the Columbia
river between Vancouver and Port
land, for the ten months period end
ing October 81, were SSl1,45S.4S
Clarke c0unty's share Of the net earn
ings was $13G,5S34S.
The Triangle Construction company
of Spokane received contract from
the state highway department to clear
grade and drain three miles of the
North Bank highway from Washougal
In Clarke county to the Skamania
county line on a bid OF S79,122.1S.
A big bag of predatory animals was
made in October by the federal, state
and associated hunters, with 26t
coyotes, seven bobcats and one rae
coon, according to the report of DR.