Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-08


that Grays HaTbor has ever seen ao
cording to figures compiled. The pre-.
vious record was made In August,
1923, when 6g vessels cleared with
S4.574,442 feet.
Motion for new trial for I, ].
Lasswell, former treasurer of Colville,
who was convicted on January II for
appropriating $4,000 of the city's
funds to his own use, was denied by
Judge William Huneke, Spokane, who
sentenced Lasswell to three to five
years In the penltentiary.
Shortly after Easter the successor to
the Rev. Frederic w. Keator, bishop
of tho Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Olympia, who died in New Haven,
Conn, will be selected, according to an
announcement by Rev. Francis II. Bate
man, secretary Of the standing COM
mittee, which met in Seattle.
Three daylight automobile bandits
held up I. s. Toby, president of the
Rainier Valley State bank in the Cast.
ern section OF Seattle, robbed him of
a sack containing $500 in silver, $500
in currency and quantity of war saw.
ings stamps. and bound and blind.
folded him In his own automobile be,
fore escaping.
More than lila arrests were made
during 1923 by federal prohibition
agents, according to figures made pub
lie by Roy C. Lyle, federal prohibition
director for the state. During the
same period zoos gallons of moonshine
and whisky. 274s gallons of malt, So.
900 gallons OF mash and 100 moonshine
stills were seized.
j. w. Langdon OF Walla Walla was
chosen chairman of the special com.
mittee of five provided for by Wash
ington apple growers at their recent
Yakima meeting. F. H. Moses of Cash
mere was selected secretary. Other
committeeman are ]. R. Schwartze of
Yakima, Q. King Benton of Hood River
and E. NJ. Gillette of Malaga.
Timber covering $40 acres in the
Snoqualmie national forest is being
advertised for sale by the forest serv.
ice. 1t is partly Douglas fir and the
remainder is hemlock, cedar, white
pine and silver fir. There will be ap-
proximately 100000 board feet. The
minimum price is $3.25 for Douglas
fir and 81 for the other species.
With announcement of the change of
name of the Washington national for
est to Mount Baker national forest
comes the statement from the forestry
department that every effort possible
will be made to get the road to Austin
pass completed this coming summer
to open up the wonders of the region
to tourists as quickly as possible.
Seattle's municipal power project up
the Skagit river is due for an investi-
cation to ascertain the cause of delays
and the nature of expenditures which
have run the cost from an estimated
total of less than s5,0O0,0o0 up to and
past the s11,000,OOO mark, with re.
quests pending from engineers for an
additional 100000 or 100000 as
necessary to finish the work.
Percy L. Sinclair, convicted of max
ing a false statement concerning the
Ilwaco bank. of which he was presi
dent, has begun serving his sentence
of Is months to three years in the
penitentiary at Walla Walla. He is
convict 10000. Myron Sinclair. his
son, who was secretary and treasurer
of the bank. is now serving three to Is
years on charge of Incorporating
funds of the bank.
Unanimous Endorsement of the Mel
Ion tax reduction plan, opposition to
grazing fee increases Endorsement Of
the McNary.Haugen bill and the Esch-
Cammins transportation act, and op-
position to the establishment of ma
tional park at Mount Adams were the
outstanding resolutions adopted at the
close of the annual convention of the
Washington Wool Growers association
at Yakima, which was attended by $50
sheepmen.
The state has secured the right-of-
way for the Olympic highway through
the Quinault Indian reservation, and
the state highway department now
expects to include this stretch of sc
miles in its call for bids for March IL.
This job will consist of clearing the
full so feet WIDE as is being done with
the rest of the right-of-wsy to close
the 5O-mile gap in the wSst portion of
the Olympic highway loop around the
entire peninsula
Roy C. Lyle, prohibition director of
the state, who has been in Washing
ton, D. c., for several weeks comforting
with Commissioner Blair of the bureau