Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-25

Mount Vernon of the Washington
state county clerks association
Martin zoncha, engineer, and Henry
Adj, fireman, we're killed and other
employees narrowly escaped death
when donkey engine at camp No. 2
of the Independence Logging company
in northwestern Lewis county blew
up.
Action to test the validity OF with
drawals of signatures from initiative
or referenduT petitions, upon request
of the signers, after such petitions are
in the hands of the secretary OF state,
was filed with the state supreme
court.
Ned Crofoot, 4.year.old son of ],
=. Crofoot, while playing with
matches, started fire that destroyed
a big farm on the Crofoot ranch near
Okanogan with large quantity of
hay and all farm harness and imple-
ments.
A proposal to have stricken the
provision requiring complaints in
divorce cases to be Gled 80 days be-
fore trial was voted down at the an
nual convention at Seattle Of the AS
sociation of Superior Court Judges of
Washington.
Approximately 1900 men in Wash
ington are under the parole system
and are earning an average of $72
month, ]. Howard Shattuck, state
parole officer, told sheriffs and peace
officers at their annual state con-
vention at Yakima,
The federal trade commission com
plant against the Douglas Fir Ex
ploitation and Export company, charg-
ing an attempt to monopolize the
lumber export business of the Pacific
coast, was dismissed by the commits
sion without prejudice.
Forty-four carloads of lambs were
shipped to the Chicago market Friday
by four Yakima sheepmen. Waechter
Bros. loaded % cars at Toppenish;
Pete Agor, four at Naches; A. Mat
son, nine at White Swan, and Fl. o.
Kohler, eight at Gle Elum.
Indian ponies running wild invaded
the ranch of Walter Hall near Wiley
City, who fired at them with shot
gun with disastrous results. One pony
was killed by the shot, and another
so manned that it had to be killed.
Warrants were isued for Halls arrest.
The 9th annual convention at
Yakima of the state sheriffs' asso-
citation, was enlivened by suggestion
by Senator D. Y. Morthland that per-
haps one of the most potent retarders
of juvenile crime would be for the
state to give the power of spanking
to sheriffs.
Oregon and California are discrimi-
mating against Washington in direct
ing tourist traffic up the Columbia
river highway instead of north to
| Seattle and then over the Washing
ton passes, Stephen Chadwick, Seat
! tie attorney, told members Of the
Lions club at Wenatchee.
Walter j. Robinson of Garfield,
manager of the Washington Wheat
Growers association, declared in a
statement at Spokane that he will
| file for the democratic nomination
for governor, "unless some candidate
interested in the farmers problems
with a possibility of being elected"
enters the race.
A complaint charging conspiracy
in restraint of trade and alleged I'M
fair price-fixing was filed in federal
court at Seattle against more than 20
prominent commission merchants UNI
der the name of the Seattle Produce
association by Cornelius Hughes,
special assistant to the United States
Encouragement.
Sheep creek, the best fishing stream
in Stevens county, was closed to fish
ing, together with all its tributaries,
by j. W. Kenney superintendent of
game and game fish, on request from
| F. e. Pape, state forester, on &C.
count of the fire hazard. 1t will be
opened again as soon as a rain makes
conditions of risk more favorable.
With returns nearly complete, the
June gasoline tax report announced
by Fred j. Dibble, director of licenses,
showed sales of l3,S42,145 gallons of
gasoline, while the returns yet to
come in are expected to make June
the banner month so far in the his
tory of the gasoline tax on quantity
At 2 cents gallon the collections
will be $266,S42.90 for June.
Shot to death as he lay in his bunk
at Trafton twenty miles. north of
Everett, the body of Frank saurrol
90, section foreman of the Northern