Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-14
Washington News

CLARKSTON.-The funeral of Will
liam Woods, 16.year-old son of G. A.
Woods, who died recently from injur-
les suffered when his motorcycle col.
lided with truck, was held from the
Vassar chapel the Rev. D. Scott of
the Baptist Church officiating. Hope
Is held that Harley Steiner, age 10,
who was on the wheel with Woods,
will recover although his condition Is
serious.
KEECHELUS.-Al Cramer, rs, for.
mer Indian scout and plainsman, with
his wife, g. arrived here on cross,
country hike which they declare will
end somewhere in Mexico. Thu aged
man pulled behind him rickety
wagon piled high with luggage and
utensils. The two left Dallas, Texas
over a year ago, under Doctors orders
to walk, walk and walk. They were
20 days crossing the Bitter Root
Mountains from Misoula to Spokane,
30 days from Spokane over the Cas-.
cade Mountains to this lodge. Now
that they are on the Pacific Coast the
going is easy, says Cramer.
TACOMA. = Aboard a 32-foot boat
four men from this city have set out
on cruise across the Pacific, with
Honolulu as their destination. The
cruise was planned by Karl Rathfon,
an experienced navigator Of small
craft, and his boat is the Idle Hour
The Idle Hour has a 1O-horsepower
motor, q beam of II feet and depth
from the deck of six feet. Rathfon
declared she could ride any wave the
Pacific could raise. She sailed with
half a ton of iron filings as ballast, in
addition to large supplies of fuel oil
and provisions. The men have no ra.
do, but expect passing vessels to re-
port their progress. They plan to
cruise down the coast to San Pedro,
Cal, then across to the Hawaiian Is
lands.
SEATTLE.-Fox raising is becom-
ing one of the most important indus
tries of Southeastern Alaska, accord
ing to DR.. V. R. Cline, fur animal spe
cialist, of Petersburg, Alaska, who
brought 40 pairs of blue foxes here
from Ketchikan, Wrangell and Peters
burg for shipment to Shishmaref, on
the Arctic Ocean north of Nome. The
animals were valued at $4,000. Fox
farming has been started at Shish-
maref. Many foxes are shipped to
the eastern part Of the United States
from Alaska. One Of the largest fox
farms in Alaska is near Ketchikan.
RIDGEFIELD.-A tale of thrill
ing encounter with bears recently on
the upper North Fork of Lewis River
about IS miles from Woodland was
brought back by trio of Ridgefleld
nimrods, Herbert Fisher, doc" Sims
and William Bochart. According to
Bochart, he wounded a cub bear,
which managed to get away. Bochart
pursued the animal for some distance.
The cries of the bear cub attracted its
mother. She charged Bochart who
was out of ammunition, forcing him
to climb tree. His fellow hunters
after a hot fight succeeded in driving
the old bear away badly wounded.
LONGVIEW.-H. w. Jackson, chief
Of police, suffered slight fracture of
the skull as a result of an encounter
with Officer Williams of the Longview
police force recently at the Loggers
Congress at st. Helens Inn. Mrs.
Jackson asked that Williams be APP
pretended, but declined to sign a war
rant for his arrest.
SEATTLE.-Memor of the days
of the Klondike rush were revived re-
Gently when a shipment Of $575,000 in
gold bullion, brought here on the
steamship Victoria from Nome, Alas.
ka, mines, was deposited in Seattle
bank vault '.he shipment represent
ed a seasons output by mines in the
Nome dist ict.
CHEH. LIS.-Fred Chase had a
narrow escape from being killed in
the CAM, of the Snow Lumber & Shin
gle Company near Littell recently
when log swung and crushed him.
Chase's right leg was broken near his
body and his collar bone was broken.
His chest was also crushed, but it is
not thought that the injury will be
fatal. He was hurried to Centralia
hospital. Chase is son of Mrs, Ada
Chase of this city and makes his home
here.
REARDAN. - Velma Beeman, 10,
Dow Lathrom, 81 and ]. S, Dueber,
&c. all of this city, were shot and
killed recently by Ray Sperry, As, a