Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-18

yer barracks.
Aberdeen building permits for Aug.
lst amounted to $7o,o46, a high figure
or this month.
A cracksman robbed the safe In the
luto stage depot at Tacoma and took
between $500 and $1,000.
Charles ]. Coghlan, rs, newspaper
editor and founder of Ocosta, died at
lis home after brief illness.
The hunting season for upland birds
will open In Lewis county October !
md close October l5, inclusive.
Rain that fell heavily throughout
.he Kittitas valley will be Of ines.
Unable value to pasture lands.
Theft of two new tanning mills,
worth about 500 each. has been report.
I'd by the Walla Walla Iron Works.
Automobile accidents at Spokane de.
creased 81 In August, compared with
July. The number for August was
!O5.
Twenty-Five men a week are being
sent out from Walla Walla as farm
workers by the federal employment
bureau.
Farmers In the vicinity Of Walla
Walla will start seeding In few days
and will begin plowing as soon as
rain falls.
Whitman college at Walla Walla has
been placing prospective students on
waiting list. The quota Of 300 men
and 200 women has t,en filled.
A tentative budget of $1sl.s2s.e4.
presented to the Vancouver city coun-
ell, will need to be slashed more than
$4,000, Mayor Storey declared.
Farmers Of Longview report oats
and wheat crops from diked land ex.
ceptionally good. Oats runs as high
as 140 bushels to the acre and wheat
from 25 to IS bushels.
M. KIDD, 25, Corean employed in the
Long Bell mills at Longview, was shot
to death by X. Mochizuki. Japanese
mill worker, In the Japanese board.
ing house on the mill site.
Miss Josephine Bantield, AZ, com.
mitted suicide by shooting herself in
the mouth with .22-caliber rifle while
in the barn at her home on Prune
hill, one mile from Camas.
Sam Fulfil, Japanese, was shot and
killed by federal narcotic officers and
narcotics valued by the officers at $685.
900 were seized in a raid by federal
and city officers at Spokane.
Figures reported by State Superin.
tendent Preston show that $4,000
pupils and approximately 1890 teach.
ers returned to their classes in the
states public schools during the last
two weeks.
Where the Rimrock school for years
during construction OF the Tieton dam
had an attendance of so to 90 chill
dren, the two children of G. L. Tice,
custodian Of the dam, are the only
ones now there.
A federal grand jury at Seattle re.
fused to indict Lyle H. Swisler, ar
rested in Seattle June II when he
alighted in an airplane on Lake Wash.
ington with cargo Of liquor. Swisler
is sought as fugitive from Justice.
Claud Clifford. 80, and Ross Collins,
25, both of Centralia, are in Jail in
Olympia pending the filing of charges
against them of holding up Floyd
Watts, travelling salesman, near
Yelm and stealing six sample cases.
Workers are continuing their efforts
to uncover bodies of victims believed
to be buried under the debris OF the
cloudburst which swept West Wenat.
chez, taking a toll of IL lives and caus.
ing damage estimated at 100000.
Four persons were still missing.
Business of mills Of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association was not SO
active in the week ending September
5 as for the preceding week. 107 mills
reporting sales amounting to 00,4s1.,
914 feet, manufacture Of 103.l34,74e
feet and shipment Of s7.s5s.Os6 feet.
Four men are in the county jail al
Bellingham, one is under technical ar
rest at Seattle and member Of the
United States immigration border pa
troll at Blaine has handed his resigna.
tion to his superior officers at Sc
attic, as result of reputed rum-run'
ming and hijacking plot at Blaine.
The annual harvest OF cranberries
in the bogs of South bay, between
Grays harbor and Willapa harbor,
started last week. The yield Is said
to be heavier than usual, with larger
berries, the greater part OF which are
OF the McFarlin variety. Pickers are
paid rs cents peck this year, which
is more than last year.