Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-24

Elkanah Crisp, 81, garage mechahlc
Of Elma, was shot and killed at Nc
Cleary by Fred Lomax, night marshal
Governor Hartley is attending the
reserve officers training camp at
Camp Lewis beginning Sunday and
ending August 2.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed the Willis cannery and the home OF
Fred Willis at Copalis, with an esti'
mated loss of $4,000.
Members Of the Huntington clan,
from Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and
Castle Rock, gathered near Castle
Rock for the annual reunion.
The annual picnic Of the Clarke
County Bar association was held Sun
day on the grounds Of the Clarke
County Community club on Salmon
creek.
Mikido Nakagawa, At, Japanese
track laborer, was killed when he fell
under the wheels of trailer at a
Schaefer logging camp in the Satsop
valley
Most of the business section and
several residences of the town OF
Creston, in Lincoln county, were de-
stroyed by fire with an estimated
loss of more than 100000.
Fires in grain fields should be many
times fewer this year than for years
due to the increased use of combine
harvesters, according to w. A. Groce,
assistant state fire marshal.
Sparks from the burner at the Don.
ovan No. 2 mill at Aberdeen caused a
fire which destroyed another shed and
damage the mill docks, with total
damage estimated at $4,000.
Time for the beginning Of construc'
ton of the Wenatchee southern rail.
road has been extended from July
/, 1925, to January 1, 1926, by the in
terstate commerce commission.
Fire at Bingen, famed by high
wind, destroyed four buildings with
most of their contents and for a time
threatened to devastate the town. The
loss is sctimated at $4,000 to $4,000.
Matt Lyons, who has a ranch on
Mill creek IN the Walla Walla valley
has sold his entire crop "as is" at
SLAP bushel. Some Of the first
grain harvested is now rolling to the
coast.
State authorities are searching for
John Woodward of Tonasket, Okan-
ogan county, director of the State
Bank of Tonasket, who has been miss
ing from the Frye hotel in Seattle
since July 8.
The Long-Bell Lumber company has
stopped falling timber at Ryderwood,
where about 100000 feet OF logs
have been feiled and bucked on the
ground awaiting removal Of the log.
ging equipment.
Burton Lamphear, Coweeman val
ley logger, reports that squirrels
which formerly swarmed in the for,
ests along the Coweeman river and
other streams by the thousands arc
missing this year.
Work of installing electrical appara,
tus to replace the old steam machin,
cry for ventilation of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad companys Stampede
tunnel through the Cascade mountains
has just been completed.
After wandering about alone in
dense woods in the upper Humptulips
country for is hours, Patrick Murphy,
Aberdeen express worker, was found
by party of searchers. Murphy got
lost while fishing in the Humptulips.
Ground was broken at Bellingham
by the Right Rev. S. Arthur Huston
Of Seattle, bishop Of the diocese OF
Olympia of the Episcopal church, for
a 100000 church. The edifice will be
built by ST. Paul's parish OF Belling.
ham.
Because three Puyallup young men,
Lowell Mahaffie, Edgar Taylor and
Charles Smith, neglected to put out
their campfire at Packwood lake when
they left for a fishing trip, fine of
SIS and SIS costs was assessed against
them.
With receipts of s61so3S.66. expend.
itures by warrants paid Of $1.140,-
95355 for the week ending July the
state cash balance was left at Sl6,.
520,219.S9, according to report Of w.
G. Potts, state treasurer.
Long distance lines OF the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph Company in
the Kelso district were put out Of com
mission in q peculiar manner for q
short time when blue crane became
entangled in the wires at point near
Kalama.
While the general forest fire situa
tion in northern Idaho and eastern
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