Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-18

announced.
Stanley Lister, A, assistant man
ager Of the Crown Lumber company
at Mukilteo was fatally wounded, and
Claude Leathers, mill and logging
worker, died at an Everett hospital
from self-nflicted wounds several
hours after a shooting ARRAY on the
lawn In front OF Listers home at
Everett.
Winter wheat In Washington April
averaged SO per cent of normal,
against 81 per cent April / a year ago,
C, S. Bay of the federal division Of
crop and livestock estimates, declar.
ed in report made public at Spo.
kane. This is decrease of nine points
| since December last The ten.year
average is So.
A delegation Of farmers from the
Egypt country, north of Davenport,
and members OF the executive com
mittee NJ the commercial club appear
ed before Lincoln county commission.
ers and asked for construction of
road, starting on state highway No.
% and extending northwest through
the Egypt country.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
will not join or indorse the work Of
the Washington state chamber of com
merce as it is organized and administ.
cred. On the eve of the annual meet
ing of the state chamber held in
Olympia Friday and Saturday, the Sc.
attic chamber delivered its final re-
fusal to participate.
The American By-Products com.
pany following an exhaustive exam,
nation and report on the Finley.Mor.
rison holdings of $50 acres of coal land
near Rocky Point, one mile north Of
kelso, by Minor Roberts, dean of the
school of mines of the University of
Washington, and Professor Joseph
Daniels, has acquired the property.
A new industry will be started at
Yakima as soon as necessary changes
can be made In the old Gibson Pack
ing companys abattoir, lease of which
was obtained by Oliver P. Church,
formerly of Portland, Or. Machinery
and materials have been ordered and
| Mr.. Church expects to be busy short
ly manufacturing hard water soaps,
suitable particularly for waters of this
region.
in the hope of getting more men to
/ enlist to play roles of Indians" in the
pioneer pageant at Walla Walla, May
2S and 30, it was announced that a
shower bath will be installed at the
pageant grounds. Last year indians"
had to make their way through town
clad only in coat of red calcimine
and two yards of cloth, and had to
depend on the family bath tubs as a
place for removing the Costume"
Two young women of Seattle are
dead from injuries caused by auto
mobiles. Mrs Anna Wardrip, 20, re-
ceived a fractured skull when car
driven by her husband overturned as
the two we're going home from
dance. While Miss Ellen Munson was
on her, way to church an automobile
that woman driver had left stand.
ing broke away and disloged bould-
er, which rolled down a stone stair
way and fractured Miss Munson's
skull.
More than twice as many carloads
of freight were sent eastbound dur
ing March through the four trans
continental gateways of the Pacific
northwest, as came through west
bound; the eastbound traffic being o.,
4S7 carloads as against 1886 car
loads passing westward. Continual
ton of the increase in both-way car
movement, in evidence, since the low
point last December is shown by the
compilation made by Traffic Expert
Calderhead of the state department of
public works.
Educators OF the Pacific northwest
elected new officers, changed the
name of their organization from the In.
land Empire Teachers association to
the Inland Empire Educational asso
citation and adopted resolutions, con.
GLIDING their 26th annual convention
at Spokane. w. NJ. Kern, superintend.
ent of schools at Walla Waila, was
elected president; w. ], Kerr, presi
dent of Oregon Agricultural college,
was chosen president; James A.
Burke OF Spokane was reelected sec
rotary, and Miss Mittie L. Shoup OF
Missoula, Mont, was elected treas.
urer.
Buck deer with visible horns may be
shot from October is to November 10
this year, but each hunter is allowed
only one in the season, according to
the decision announced by the Chelan
county game commissioners, who have