Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-26
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

, citation held its 1924 show at Wenat
|, chez.
Yakima orchardists fear the recen
, cold has damaged peach trees, ant
may have injured apple trees,
The Eufaula company logging camI
west of Kelso was shut down, releas
ing 300 men until early spring.
University of Washington's mines
hall at Seattle, built in 1901 at a cos
of $4,000, was destroyed by fire.
Fire caused the death of Johr
Egfren, aged hermit, near Olequa Sun
day night, and destroyed his cabin.
; Judge Warren w. Tolman was elect
ed chief justice of the state supreme
. court by unanimous vote of the jus
tees.
The Wild Rose shingle mill a,
Skamokawa was destroyed by fire las,
week. Cause of the flames has moi
been determined.
Operation of the Tacoma municipal
carline as an Industrial belt line add
, ed S1010 to the earnings of the line
during November.
After an all-night search neighbors
found Ulysses Jackson, Ga, of near
Ostrander, dead from heart failure in
a field two miles from his home.
The interior of the evaporator plant
Of the Selah Fruit Growers associa
! tion was destroyed by fire with loss
estimated at between $4,000 and
100000.
The financial condition of Chelan
county is excellent, according to re-
ports of l.. D. Brown, state examiner
for the department of taxation and
examination
! Use of the waters OF Lake Coeur
d'Alene in Idaho, in the Columbia
, basin irrigation project is being con.
sidered by government engineers max
ing an investigation of the plan.
Contracts for erection of log arch
over the east entrance to Aberdeen
! on Sargent boulevard were let by a
! committee composed of representa-.
tiyes of the Lions and kiwanis clubs
Asking judgment of $7,536, 432.OS, a
! suit against the Skinner & Eddy cor.
poration was filed in federal court at
Seattle by Clarence l.. Reames. special
counsel for the Emergency Fleet cor.
poration.
/, James w. Craig, sixty, of Granite
!, Falls, suffered a fractured skull, caus,
: ing death, when struck on the head
by sapling he used as anchor" while
removing log from the highway near
Waite Mills.
Sixteen students from Lincoln and
Franklin high schools in Seattle were
suspended and seven other Lincoln
students were reinstated by the board
Of education after an investigation of
alleged liquor parties attended by the
boys and girls.
Requests that AttorneyG eneral John
Dunbar file suit against Governor
Louis f. Hart, with the view of having
the executive parole in the Filion case
set aside on the ground that the gov.
ernor exceeded his authority in issuing
it, will be made soon by Pierce county
deputy prosecutors.
Complaints from Yakima sportsmen
regarding recent killing OF elk to stop
raids by the animals upon Upper
Naches ranches are to be investigated
by ]. Warren Kenney of Seattle, state
game supervisor. George Harris,
deputy state game warden, was in
charge of the killing.
The Vancouver city council has ap,
proved an ordinance increasing the
police force to nine men, increasing
the salary of chief to $165 month,
creating the rank of an inspector at
S155 and raising the pay of night
sergeant to S145 a month. Patrolmen
will receive S125 month.
Changes in criminal trial procedures
will be asked of the legislatures of
several western states when they con.
vene next month by committees ap-
pointed by the Northwest Association
of Sheriffs and Police, according to an
announcement at Seattle OF special
committee of the association
The expenditures of Washington
state for 1928 totaled S25, 5,O34, ,OS4, as
against $22,214,O90 for 1922. accord.
ing to figures made public by the
census bureau. The per capita expen-
diture was s17.53 as against $3.50 for
1922. The revenues for 1923 totaled
s29,471 ,02O, or s2O64 per capita.
Senator Jones and Representative
Summers of Washington have intro.
duced jointly in senate and house a
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