Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

| me UEureS aTe eapecleu " pass
5000 soon.
Fire which broke out in the kitchen
of the Concrete Cafe at Concrete in
Skagit county, destroyed two-story
building and the sleeping quarters Of
16 persons.
! The Coweeman district schoolhouse,
south of Kelso, was entered sometime
during the last weekend and 20 books
from the fourth and eighth grades
were stolen.
Governor Roland H. Hartley has is.
sued a proclamation calling upon the
Washington state Legislators to con-
vene in an extraordinary session
November 8.
The Seattle city council has unani.
mously voted to submit city mana.
ger charter amendment to vote of
the people at the general municipal
election next March 9.
| 2. V. Evans of Wapato was electro
cuted as he stood on the damp floor
of Jacks confectionery and began wip-
| Ing the metal of the electric drink
mixer with a wet cloth.
Thieves broke into the section lab
orers' camp of the Milwaukee railway
at Rochester and departed with $50 in
cash, two fountain pens and all the
personal effects of the men.
Harry M. Love- Minneapolis, su-
preme keeper of records and seals,
Knights of Pythias, is attending the
Washington state grand lodge conven.
J ton at Vancouver this week.
Fire destroyed 81 dry kilns of the
Pacific Box company at Tacoma, with
a loss Of $4,000. Several small build
ings of the company and large guam
titles of lumber were burned up.
Marriage licenses issued at Vancou-
yer continue to fall below the number
issued for the same months last year.
The total for September this year was
2S3 compared with 251 last year.
Ezra Meeker of Seattle, 95-year-old
trail blazer, escaped probable death
when wind storm blew down a big
tent of the 1O1 Ranch Wild West show,
filling an engagement at Evansville,
| Ind.
A Ruric Todd, ex-mayor of Kelso,
was bound over to superior court by
! Justice Poland at Kelso on charges of
malicious prosecution made by A. D.
/ Byram, L. E. Brown and George S.
Norris.
Railroad and telegraph holdings,
with an assessed valuation of S4,900,-
706, represent about 10 per cent of the
( total assessed valuation in Yakima
county, according to statement by
County Assessor Tyrrell.
! Bandits at Wenatchee bound
Nightwatchman Garden of the Wenat-
chee Produce company with baling
wire and then blew open the vault
doors leading to the safe, escaping
with about $500 in cash.
The new Northern Pacific branch
! railroad line between Eima and Shell
ton has been completed. 1t is 25 miles
long and cost approximately $1,000
BOO. Regular freight service over the
new line started Monday.
Reports from Randle are that hun.
dreds of deer hunters poured into
he Cispus river country to be on hand
when the deer season opened. Deer
Are reported more plentiful in that
section than for seven years.
T. H. Johnson of Chicago, who es-
,aped from the King county jail in
( Seattle September Is with five others,
vas captured with two companions
after the trio had robbed the Queen
City State bank of Seattle of $4,000.
The organization of community CEN
ers had a prominent place at the
Clarke county teachers institute, in
session at Camas. Five groups were
organized, including La Center-Yacolt
md adjoining districts, Ridgefield-
5attle Ground, Felida.Minnehaha
Orchard Union high school and Wash.
,ugal-Camas.
The cranberry harvest at Lont
Bench is now at its height and from
| reports coming in 1t is apparent that
the peninsula will have the largest
crop ever known Some of the bog:
are producing 800 boxes to the acre.
The Kelso port commission has re
ceived the preliminary report of q
N. Larry, engineer, on the port dock
at Oregon Way, estimating that 1906
plling, 100000 feet of lumber ant
100000 yards of dredging would be
required The dock will be $50 feet
long.
| Chairman Blaine of the Seattle coun
ell finance committee announced TINT
sesttle's 1926 BUDGET would be in