Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-13
Washington News

DAVENPORT. Lincoln County
game commissioners have announced
that the fishing season In this county
will not open until April Is. Most
Eastern Washington counties have
set April l as opening day.
WALLA WALLA.-W. A. White,
former receiver at the U. S. Land Of
flee here, has taken up new duties as
police sergeant, succeeding Douglas
McCauley. White managed Mayor
Hills last mayoralty campaign and
also handled his Seattle office as a
Democratic candidate for governor.
KELSO.-Robert Hanse, Is, Of Eu-
faula, claimed the bounties for two
coyotes killed by him recently, at the
county auditors office last week.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Albert, who
for the past five years has served as
district horticultural inspector for
Lewis, Pacific, Grays Harbor and
Thurston counties, with headquarters
here, has severed his relations with
the State Department Of Agriculture.
He is a graduate of the University OF
Wisconsin and plans to devote his
time to the profession of landscape
gardener.
VANCOUVER, Wash. Il Lieutenant
Oakley G. Kelly landed at the avia-
ton field here last week after flying
from Redding, Cal, 375 miles, in three
hours. He had taken his airplane to
San Diego for overhauling.
SPOKANE.-The body of Daniel M.
Drumheller, member of prominent
Eastern Washington family Of that
name, who died recently in Los An
geles from heart trouble, is being
brought here for burial. He went to
California from Missouri in 1910 and
was a pony express rider in pioneer
days.
BELLINGHAM.-A second hot wa
Ter luhG DCcu ulSSoNSlSu Al eiS
Mount Baker National Forest, accord
ing to word brought to the local for
estry office by w. ]. Elliott, prospec-
tor and mountain explorer. 1t is sit
uated near the west fork Of Bacon
Creek at an altitude of about 5000
feet. He believed the temperature to
ha Fohranhnit
There is another hot water lake in
Mount Baker Forest. 1t is near What
com Pass, is about 30 acres in size,
and does not freeze during the win.
ter.
CLEAR LAKE. = A Holstein COW
owned by Dave Parker Of Clear Lake,
Skagit County, gave birth to triplets
recently. All were normal in appear.
ance and at last reports were doing
we'll.
NEW YORK.-The steel outlook
never was better and all steel COM
panies should show improved earn.
ings this year over 1924, Charles M.
Schwab, chairman Of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, said on his depart |
ure for Europe. Prices, he asserted,
should increase at least $40 ton be,
cause of the cost Of raw materials, as
present levels are $40 ton lower
than a year ago. "The general bust
ness outlook could not be better. Am.
erica is growing all the time and there
Is no occasion for ALARM" he said.
YAKIMA. - James Scott McMurry,
who crossed the plains 70 years ago
with his parents when only years
old, died recently in st. Ellzabeth's
Hospital. He was born in Quincy, II.
linois. His parents were among the
early settlers In the Willamette Val.
ley, and the University of Oregon is
said to be located on the old dona.
ton claim Of the family. He had been
married 81 years, and leaves his wife,
eight children, fourteen grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
CAMP LEWIS.--En route to Wash.
ington, D. G., to attend the annual
conference of the Acknowledgements Of
all the states in the Union. Brigadier.
General Maurice Thompson, the ad.
jutant-general of Washington, left
here last week. The conference is
called by the general staff Of the