Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-28
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF News items
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

The Grant county republican con.
vention met in Coulee.
Seattle contributed S34,1G234 for the
relief OF German children in the re-
cent campaign.
Mayor l.. G, Edwards has declared
the first week in April cleanup
week" for Dayton,
The date for the second northwest
polo tournament has been set for May
. to is at Vancouver,
Representative Hill of Washington
has been assigned to membership on
the house irrigation committee.
DR.. Colin Gilchrst died at Wenat-
chez of pneumonia, following opera
ton for appendicitis. He was pic,
ueer physician.
A three-dollar gold piece, dated 1856,
was recently found on the plains of
Grand Dalles by Mrs. w. L. Wise of
The Dalles, Or.
Filbert growers of Washington and
Oregon met in Vancouver for two
days conference to consider increased
production and marketing of filberts.
A joint teachers institute for
Skamania and Clarke counties was
held at Vancouver with about 300
teachers from the two counties in at
tendance.
Work has been started at Yakima
on three-story cold storage fruit
warehouse to hold 100 cars to be
finished this season for the Yakima
Horticultural union.
Edward L. French, director of the
state department of agriculture at
Olympia. will be candidate for the
republican nomination for governor,
he announced at Spokane.
With the influx of tax receipts by
remittances from the county treasur
ers, the state cash balance took
jump OF S1.197,79S during the week
ending March II, reaching $14,07l,-
G24O1
The dried prune market is improv
ing and the outlook for cleanup at
fair prices is good, according to w.
H. Wood, manager of the Washington
Growers Packing association at Van.
couver.
Sweeping regulations to protect the
food fish of Puget Sound, other than
salmon, will soon be adopted by the
state fisheries board, Ernest Seaborg,
state supervisor of fisheries has an.
nOunced.
Payments of claims Of Indians in
the state of Washington amounting to
100000 would be authorized in bill
favorably reported by the senate In
dian affairs committee. 1t was offered
by Senator Jones.
Grays harbor county commissioners
will take measures at once to catch
and punish any persons dumping ashes
and other refuse in unauthorized
places, according to a statement by
Chairman Johnson.
John GROCER, II, of Ellensburg, was
freed of a first degree murder charge
growing out OF the death of Frank
Tnley, poolroom proprietor of Kent,
who was fatally shot during holdup
and robbery March s.
Thirty delegates, including presi-
dents. secretaries and trustees of nine
Kiwanis clubs in the district met in
Yakima Tuesday to plan for the an.
aual northwest district convention at
Walla Walla, August II to 10.
Two employees were locked in a
vault of the Observation-Disclosures de
partment store in Seattle by two arm
ed masked robbers, who escaped with
the contents of payroll envelopes hold
ing between $4,000 and $4,000.
Conviction in the King county court
OF A. c. sullivan, for 1t years secre'
tary of the Seattle police department
on the charge of embezzlement of
2595, which came into his possession
while serving in such capacity was
upheld by the state supreme court,
One hundred and fifty lumbermen
from all Tie producing centers of Ore.
gon and Washington met in Tacoma
in secret conference to consider the
decreased price of lumber in the light
of threatened oyerproduction. Pro
duction at present is 20 per cent more
than the demand
Major Frederick l.. Martin, com
manding, and three other officers,
flying four planes, arrived at Seattle
last week and settled down to IL days
oil preparation on Sand Point aviation
field, on Lake Washington, just north
OF the city for the circumnavigation
Of the globe in the air.
Game Warden Leichhardt of Cow
litz county is making some interesting