Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-07-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

other 16. arrested Monday by the po-
lice, have confessed 16 burglaries dur
ing the past two weeks,
Farmers at walIa Walla began hir-
ing men to report for work Monday,
when it is expected harvest will begin
unless further rain falls,
The eight-yearold son Of Mr.. and
Mrs John Shannahan was drowned
at the Standard Lumber company mill
at Laurel, Shannahan is employed IN
the mill.
Floyd Hansen. 20. sen of Mr.. and
Mrs, Lende Hansen. has left Belling-
ham for West Point, where he Will
take a four-year course in the military
academy.
R. L. Polk & Co.'S Spokane direc-
tory for 1929, to be of the presses in
November, will show that the city
now has population of approximate
" 10000.
Yakima bank statements in response
to the current call showed aggregate
deposits OF S1O,GS4, 1858, a gain OF $685.
SCI or 6 per cent. over the figures of
one year ago,
Water rights for s15O,OOO mining
project are asked by the Venus silver
mines of Fruitland, Stevens county,
in an application filed at the state by
draulies office.
Because OF the crowded condition of
the high school at Walla Walla, SUI
perintendent w. NJ. Kern in Ills an
nual report advises the building OF u
junior high school.
The fifth summer school OF Gonzaga
university opened at Spokane last
Monday for six weeks term with an
enrolment of lie students, so percent
OF whom are women.
Seventeen carloads, 1850 head OF
prime Klickitat lambs fattened on in
termedlate range in the Simcoe noun
tains, were shipped 10 the Portland
stockyards last week,
Large tracts are being planted TO
potatoes this year in Clark county,
due to the fact that many farmers
who could not sell their potatoes are
using them Tor seed.
Many OF the logging camps in north
west Washington have closed down
and Will remain closed during the for
est fire season. throwing hundreds of
men out OF employment
More than si,5O0,OOO will be expend.
ed in Seattle this summer by the Rich,
field oil company for establishment
OF its extensive marine terminal stor-
age facilities at Smith Cove.
While workmen were burning weeds
and grass along the highway near
Mansfield Saturday. the fire got be.
You'd eontrol and burned so acres of
rye belonging 10 John Harper.
An explosion, the cause OF which is
unknown. blew out the front of the
Lyric theater at Spokane last week.
Police investigating said the place
was entirely demolished inside.
Mrs. Mary Newton, rs, widow OF
Frank Newton, pioneer resident OF
Spokane, died Wednesday at her home
in that city from grief one week fol-
lowing the death OF her husband,
Between $4,000 and $1,000 was OBJ
tanned by lone man who held up the
Marine state bank in the university
district Of Seattle and escaped in the
heavy traffic OF University Way.
Less than half OF tho qualified yot.
ers in Vancouver have registered and
the books VIII be closed August Il.
" days before the primaries, 10 enable
the auditor to order election supplies.
Mrs. John staniooh, vile Of the
sheriff OF Kltsap county. is in crit
zeal condition in a Bremerton hospital
with injuries received Saturday when
she fell down a lllght OF stairs in her
home
Charles Teleeky. prominent farmer
OK tue Carieo hills, near Ri,zvllle, says
that rattleanakes aro SO thick in his
wheat fields that the hired men win
not work unless provided with rubber
boots.
Production OF It's mills reporting
TO the West Coast Lumbermen's asso-
citation for the week ending June 80
was f1a,sSo,gg0. orders were for 12O.-
tOi.g5g feet and shipments l55.s7s,1aa
leet. This showed an increase in all
lines OF business A. compared with the
preceding week when production was
lis.75O,i6O feet. new business 1ia,l14,-
las and shipments is5,2sl,01s feet,
with H. mills reporting
rullman's new 100000 federal
bullins, appropriations Tor which
have already been made by congress,
Will be located az the corner Of Para