Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-07

washed out, and another between
Morton and Mineral.
George T. Stage, sentenced to 10 to
10 years in the penitentiary for kid
mapping his son, has arrived at the
penitentiary at Walla Walla from Tia.
coma. Stagg may be named assistant
chaplain OF the institution.
A big slide near the crest of the
Napavine hill between Chehalls and
Napavine has blocked one Of the main
line double tracks used jointly by the
Northern Pacific, Great Northern and
O.-W. R. & N. trains, and trains must
use a single track between these
points. 1t Is estimated that it may
take 80 days to repair the damage.
Justices of the peace Of the state will
be cut off from much revenue If laws
fostered by the Ministerial alliance Of
Washington are enacted by the state
legislature, providing that no justice
Of the peace shall perform wedding
ceremonies.
Rising three feet In four hours, the
White river overflowed Its banks last
week, inundating hundreds OF acres
Of farm land between Orillia and Kent.
In the south part Of King county. Cat.
tie were moved to higher ground and
farmers prepared to abandon their
homes.
The Pacific highway between Sal
mon Creek bridge and Pioneer will
be thrown open to traffic January 8,
according to B. L. Dorman, Clarke
county engineer. This highway was
paved this year from the Salmon creek
bridge to within half mile of Pioneer,
making Ia miles of pavement from the
Columbia river interstate bridge.
Earthquakes which extended over
the entire Pacific region have been
responsible for the recent government
cable Interruptions between Seattle
and Alaska, according to Lieutenant
Colonel c. A. Sloane, officer in charge
of the Washington-Alaska cable system
with headquarters in Seattle, who re.
turned to Seattle Friday after cable
repairing cruise aboard the United
States cable ship Burnside.
Announcement has been made that
the Washington state highway COM
missioners have definitely routed the
National Park highway between Nor
ton and Rife around over state road
No. IS to Glenom and thence down
old state road No. across the Nesika
bridge to Rife, The new route Sc.
lected has been chosen to obviate the
possibility Of the state undertaking to
build a road over the divide between
Morton and Rife.
On the ground that new data have
come up which should be foundation
for new hearing in the Portland rate
case, Puget sound shipping interests
probably will ask that the long-con-
tested fight be reopened. Preferen
tial freight tariffs from all points
south Of the Snake river to Portland
ever those in existence to Tacoma and
Seattle are destructive, in n measure,
to sound ports, according to shipping
men, and they have been planning to
reopen the case.
The Roslyn Coal & Coke company
will this week begin active operations
Of the Superior coal mine in National
avenue in Chehalis with the purpose
of developing an output of 500 tons
or more daily Recently, owing to the
caving in Of sand in the lower slopes
Of this mine, the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company, which had
been operating II on lease, abandon.
ed the Superior mine. Mr.. Plants
company has taken lease on the hold.
ings and will open up new shaft.
Total appropriations from general
and trust funds recommended by the
state board of finance in its budget
prepared for the next session of the
Legislature are approximately $4,000
600 in excess Of those made by the leg.
islature two years ago, and exceed
by nearly 100000 the requests made
in departmental reports. Department
al requests total s46,13O,9S0, while ap.
preparations recommended by the
board of finance aggregate $47,991,73S.
In this amount, the appropriations ask
ed by the state institutions of higher
learning are included, although the
board refrains from making any recon-
mendntion to the legislature on the
requests. The total appropriated In
1919 was s3S.97S,040.
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