Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-07

burg recovery on q promissory note
given as a contribution to the church
by j, G, Soden, Yakima, formerly Of
Ellensburg, thus affirming the Yakima
county superior court.
Although Wenatchee's tax levy, pay.
able In 1925, is a fraction of a mill less
than in 1929, property owners will pay
S10,616 more, according to figures pre-
pared by County Assessor Schebe.
Valuation of property has increased
s221,S14 in the last year.
The tobacco habit has been recon.
mended by Professor John Guberiet Of
the University of Washington zoology
department for chickens as an effec-
tive way to combat destructive in
testinal worm of which he has just
completed five years investigation.
seattle's new s4,5OOO0O community
and tourist hotel, the Olympic, was Of
licially completed Friday with pub
lie inspection. The building covers
one square block and has 617 guest
rooms, December the Olympic is
to be formally opened for business.
An application for additional water
rights on Tomtit lake, Roeniger lake
and Mccoy creek in Snohomish coun-
ty were filed with the state supervisor
! of hydraulics by the Sultan Electric
! company. The water is being used
for development of hydro-electric pow
| err.
From $4,000 to 10000 sheep are be-
Ing dipped in Kittitas and Yakima
| counties in the campaign Of the veter-
! mary division of the agricultural de-
partment, and the sheep men, to stamp
out an outbreak of sheep scab recent
ly discovered, according to DR.. L. C.
FELTON, supervisor of diaries and live
stock.
Under authority of the migratory
| bird law notice has been sent out by
| the secretary of agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c.. that the Lewis woodpecker,
where it becomes injurious to pears,
| apples or other fruit, may be killed. It
| is first necessary, however, to obtain
permit countersigned by the state
game warden.
More than a score of men, including
posses from Lewiston, Dayton and
| Pomeroy, secured the region near
| Pomeroy where man thought to be
| Darrell Thurston, fugitive Craigmont
bank robber and alleged slayer of Of
ficer Gordon Harris of Lewiston, was
seen and fired upon. No further trace
| of the man was found
The big problem before the state
schools today is what to do with the
| pioneer teachers who helped build up
| the present splendid system but who
have not the training requirements of
| teachers now, Mrs. Josephine Corliss
| Preston, state superintendent, told
| Whetcom and Skagit instructors at a
meeting in Bellingham.
check for s5S26 was received by
King county from the National Surety
company, bondsman for ex-Sheriff
Stringer, for judgment obtained by
King county in suit where it was
charged that Stringer failed to turn
in money received from the federal
government for the board and care OF
prisoners. The suit was carried on
for four years.
Proper treatment and cures for sick
fish is being taught at the University
of Washington this quarter, the first
course of its kind to be given any
where in the United States. The
course is offered In the college of
fisheries and is being taught by Pro,
lessor John Guberlet OF the zoology
department who is an expert on fish
diseases and parasites.
The board of directors of the Long.
view chamber of commerce voted to-
enter Cowlitz county in the better
farming contest sponsored by the state
chamber of commerce. Three cash
prizes totaling $1,000 will be awarded
to four counties showing the greatest
improvement in diversification and
betterment of farming between March
l, 1925, and March 1, 1927, It is an
nounced.
About half of the 1924 prune crop
grown by members of the Washing
ton Growers Packing corporation OF
Clarke county has been packed and
shipped, according to w. H. Wood, as.
sociation manager. Four million
pounds have been received at the as,
ISOLATION plant in Vancouver, $1,000 900
pounds have been shipped and about
100000 pounds remain in the hands
Of the growers.