Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-09

| Northern Pacific railway and business
men with officials OF the railway was
held at Harrah in an effort to get
the railway to reduce its freight
charges.
Portland, Or was favored as the
location for a proposed college of the
Evangelical church for Washington,
Oregon and California, at a meeting
OF ministerial and lay representatives
of churches of the denomination at
Spokane.
An air flight record from San Fran
cisco to Vancouver barracks was
claimed by Lieutenant-Colonel Jason
N. Walling, 18th infantry, Vancouver
barracks, and Lieutenant Oakley G.
Kelly, who made the trip in five hours
80 minutes.
Steve Brown, an iron moulder, his
son Frank, and Tom Blakeley were
drowned when an automobile in
which they were riding plunged
through an open span in the Eighth
ayenue-South drawbridge over the
Duwamish river in Seattle.
Trial of the suit brought against
the city OF Tacoma by the Emergency
Fleet corporation for recovery on the
loan of $234,000 made the city during
the war for improvement OF the tide
flats car line has been definitely set
for June % in federal court at Ia
coma
Christened by Miss Margie Elliott
of Portland, Or, the heavy duty power
tender Highway, building at the plant
of the n. j. Blanchard Boat company
in Seattle for the United States bureau
of roads, was launched. The vessel
will be used in carrying supplies in
connection with the building and re-
pair of roads in Alaska.
The state department of public
works has legal jurisdiction as to
rates, facilities and service over ferry
boats other than those operated en-
tirely within one county, or those oper.
ated by a county, city or port, under
authority of law according to an opin-
ion rendered by Attorney-General Dun
bar to Director Kuykendall.
A campaign to sell the stock of
the Vancouver 1925 centennial exposi-
tion at Vancouver will be inaugurated
as soon as the consent of the war
department to use the site of the old
Hudson Bay fort and the building of
the spruce cut-up plant for the exposi-
ton is obtained, according to re-
port of the finance committee.
Declaring that the fire season in
eastern Washington is advanced two
months over last year, and the con-
dition at present is drier than during
the hottest months last summer, tim
Der protective associations Of eastern
Washington are urging upon state
forestry officials that closed fire
season be proclaimed Immediately.
The state and county school appor-
tionment for April will give Yakima
city schools sS5,345. Toppenisb will
receive S19,151, Wapato S15,755, Sunny
side S14,S46, Grandyiew SLIGO, SeIah
SS7O4, Mckee sS229, Granger S6913,
Lower Naches S517l, Naches $4S7S,
zillah s479O, Nobhill sS65S, Wide Hell
low $3316, Harrah $265S, Union Gap
$2247, Wiley City SLAP, Fruitvale
s1245 and Broadway S1156.
Contract for the construction and
installation of the entire machinery
equipment of the first unit power
house of the Cushman power project
$4,000 horsepower, was signed with the
Allis.Chambers company by Commits
sioner Dawson of the municipal light
department of Tacoma. The contract
price was $63O,7SO for the turbines,
generators tOuutHStl5i IldH5lbi HIFlh
and minor equipment, and $3.50 for
installation.
Three Portlanders - L. L. Satter.
white, Miss Maxine Williams and r
A. Lewis are held at Kslso following
the death OF James Turnbull u, son
OF Christopher Turnbu1l The lad was
run down and killed instantly by an
automobile and authorities later ar
rested the Satterwhlte party at Castle
Rock, 1t was believed that the auto,
mobile in which they we're riding was
the one that sped on after hitting the
Turnbull lad
Irrigation projects in eastern Wash
lngton, which were constructed under
tho supervision OF the state, are in
good shape and are prepared to deliver
water at once, according to d. A. Scott,
director Of conservation and develop
mont after a Today inspection trip
OF the projects. Farmers Of eastern
Washington have been availing them.
selves of the spring runoff and, al