Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-04-03
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

Joseph Semler, age So, for 40 years
a resident of Cotton district, died
at the Colfax hospital from cancer
of the stomach.
John Lonnroth, sailor in the
world war, was operated upon at
WaIla Walla hospital. This was his
SSth operation.
L. S. Brockway, a bookkeeper, was
arrested at Seattle on charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 from three real es-
tate concerns.
More than $50 delegates attended
the fifth annual convention at Seattle
of the Retail Credit Mems association
of the Pacific northwest.
One full carload of bees, about q.
250,0O0 arrived at Walla Walla last
week for Carl F. Buck, who is running
bee farm at College Place.
Mrs. Margaret Rider, 2S. died at
Vancouver from injuries received in
an automobile accident on the Battle
Ground highway near Orchards.
Elmer Manhart was convicted at
Seattle of first degree murder for kill.
ing Mrs Lillian Helen Morley of Vic
toria, d. c., in taxicab February /.
For the third time within three
years patrons of the Selah school dis
trict will vote April on issuing bonds
to erect $4,000 high school build
Ing.
Directors of the Yakima CONNER
cial club have authorized member
ship meeting April Is to vote on re-
organizing the club into a chamber of
commerce.
Heavy oil and gas showings have
been encountered in the well of the
Columbia Basin Oil company near At
talia. The will has reached depth
OF $3.50 feet
A conference Of representatives Of
each state hotel mems organization
on the Pacific coast has been arrang-
ed to take place in Tacoma on May
II and IS.
Clas Swanson, 67, of Ritzville, inner
tied fortune estimated at nearly ST.
100000 when his brother, Charles l..
Swanson of Chicago, a livestock man,
died February 2S.
Scab has broken cut in sheep be-
longing to DR.. A. T. Thompson, be-
tween Prosser and Grandview. Steps
are being taken to prevent it spread
ing to other flocks.
Alex Geyso, Mrs. Freida Geyso and
Joe Trinko, all of Clear Lake are dead
as the result of what the police be-
lieve was a double murder and suicide
in a residence at Aberdeen.
Two men, armed with sawed-off
shotguns, held up an employe of
Armour & Co., meat packers, in an
outlying district of Spokane and es-
capped with payroll of S50O0
Heavy court dockets resulted in
Judge ]. 7. Ronald of the King coun-
ty superior court asking Governor
Roland H. Hartley to assign judges
from other districts TO King county.
John P Mark of Seattle, world
war veteran, died from injuries re-
ceived when an automobile in which
he was riding plunged from the Mon
tesano-Aberdeen highway near Aber-
deem.
Lumber sales for rail delivery for
the week ending March 21 set new
high mark, according to the weekly
trade review of the West Coast Lum-
bermen's association The sales total
ed 206S carloads.
A power development on the Toutle
river in Skamania and Cowlitz coun.
ties is proposed in an application for
a preliminary permit filed with the
federal power commission by Dr. Hen.
ry Waldo Coe of Oregon.
Elmer L. Smith, Centralia attorney
dlsbarred by the state supreme court
February "a on charges that he ad-
vocated I. w. w. principles in viola
tion of his oath as an attorney, has
filed a petition for rehearing.
Fire at Yakima destroyed a loading
platform and ice conveyor of the va.
kima Artificial Ice G. Cold Storage
company and heater house owned
by the Pacific Fruit Express company,
with total loss estimated at $4,000.
A proposition submitted by the
Aberdeen city council OF bond issue
In the sum of 100000 to extend the
Wishkah water system to the wy.
nooche, distance of 30 miles north,
carried at special election by nearly
two.to.one vote.
Sales by 121 reporting mills of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
for the week ending March q were
10i,s01 100 feet This was 3 per cent
above production of lOl,32729 feet.
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