Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-21

100000 acres have been affected.
Strangled to death by heavy rib.
bed stocking tightly knotted about the
neck by the hand Of her murderer, the
body OF Mrs. Robert Alland, an old
resident of Thmston county, was
found lying on bed in her lonely
shack about eight miles east Of Olym-
pia.
A contract has been let by the X.
L. Coulter company of Ilwaco to the
Union Bridge company for construc-
ton Of bridge across the Naselle
river on the Ocean Beach highway
between South Bend and Ilwuco This
bridge will be operated as a toll
bridge.
Laying of steel has been started on
the Longview, Portland & Northern
Railways grade between Vader and
Ryderwood Connection with the
Northern Pacific3 main line Will be
made at Vader. Ryderwood will be
the center of the Long-Bell Lumber
company's logging operations.
Application was made by John S.
Pendleton of Omak, president Of the
| Okanogan irrigation district, to ap.
propriate the waters of Loon lake,
or Fry lake, for the purpose Of addi-
tional irrigation within the district.
A pipe line and bitches will be con.
structed at total cost of $4,000
The complete report of Harbor-
master Rowland for 1928 shows a sub,
stantiuI gain iii shipping for Tacoma
over 1922 During the year 1922 yes
sells departed from Tacoma; imports
amounted to 2,513,151 tons, valued at
$73,612,341 and exports amounted to
1,59S,686 tons, valued at $S2,692, 1879.
Closing of all streams in Clarke
county from March Is to April 10 was
announced by L. E. McCurdy, county
game commissioner. Because OF The
food fish act. some of the larger
streams in the county have been open
ed to fishing for steelheads since Jan
uary Is, but these streams are now
closed.
Appropriation Of not less than $780,
( 600 by the legislature for maintenance
and development of state parks and
a sufficient additional sum to purchase
areas menaced with destruction, was
a recommendation made to the state
4 scenic preservation conference at the
| University of Washington by com.
mittee on plans.
Richard R Wildon, district engineer
of the state highway department, says
that Snoqualmie pass in the Cascade
mountains win not be open for motor
traffic until one mile of the summit
on the western side and two miles of
4 road on the eastern side has been
cleared. That, he predicted, will not
take place until April Is.
Mrs. Mary Lyniff, who has for many
i years conducted the Driftwood hotel
( at Long Beach, has announced her
candidacy for the nomiaation of state
senator of Pacific and Wahkiakum
counties to succeed P L. Sinclair, who
was recently convicted of completely
in the wreclsing of the Southwestern
Washington bank at Ilwaco.
Seattle's municipal street railway
carried 7S,1S1,O4S paying passengers in
1923, as compared with 74,996,65 the
previous year, an increase Of 4.25 per
cent, according to Superintendent d.
w. Hendersons 1928 report. The
total revenues for 1923 were $500,
500 and operating expenses S4,7l6,1OG,
including s6S5,1li for depreciation,
F. A. Hazeltine, for years publisher
and editor OF a newspaper at South
Bend, but Of late divisional chief OF
the prohibition unit Of the district EN-,
bracing Florida and Porto Rico, with
| headquarters at Jacksonville, has been
ordered to Seattle as divisional chief
Of District No II, which embraces
Washington, Oregon, Idaho Montana
and Alaska.
Character defects" were respon.
sible for more credit losses last year
than any other cause, ]. H. Tregoe,
secretary Of the National Association
of Credit Men, told some 400 members
of the Northwest Association Of Credit
Men in their annual convention in Spo.
kane. This meant he said, cases
where persons establish a credit, buy
a large amount of goods and then dis
appear
with receipts and expenditures Of
nearly S1,OOOOOo each for the week
ending March s, the report Of c. L.
Babcock, state treasurer, reflects
big weeks business with but little
change in condition of total balance
and the various state funds. The gen