Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-26


lars. The appropriation under tn,
original act would expire on Decembe
81, while the report of the survey ma,
not be completed until February.
Three new kelso precincts have
been created by the Cowlitz county
commissioners to care for the city's
increased population, which resulted
in more than 700 registrations in two
of the precincts.
Plans of NJ. NJ. Caldwell consulting
engineer of Seattle, for rebuilding the
A. j. West bridge over the Chehalis
river at Aberdeen, has been adopted
apd Mr.. Caldwell was authorized tc
appear before the war department
engineer to secure sanction for the
COP ;tructon.
OF 62 paroles granted during Decem
Der to prisoners of the state reniten
tiary at Walla Walla, 13 were granted
by Governor Hart as an execu,
tive act. The remaining 40 releases
were granted by the parole board
Twelve of the 13 were recommended
to Governor Hart by the parole board.
| Roston and company of Portland.
who have the contract for the tunnel
on the Cowlitz Development company
railway line through Ostrander can
| yon, several miles east of Ostrander,
have bored to a depth of nearly 100
feet. The tunnel will be $50 feet
long and is 1Sx23 feet, accommodating
! a single track.
Discovery was made that the sum-
mer home of Miles Poindexter, United
States ambassador to Peru and ex-sen-
ator from Washington, has been used
for several weeks as moonshiner's
cabin, was announced by Sheriff Clark
of Spokane county, who said that
being operated there.
The second of two deaths by drown
ing in northwest Washington occurred
when Henry Knutzen, 20, son of a
prominent merchant of Burlington,
lost his life while skating on a slough
between Burlington and Mount Ver-
non. Harry Chichester, 16 of Fern
floJn 81,
Barrett lake, two miles south of Fern
dale.
Showing substantial increases over
1922 and 1923, gross earnings of the
port of Seattle for 1924 will pass the
S1,000,0O0 mark, George F. Cotterill
president of the port commission, pre-.
diets. With December estimated at
100000 by Port Auditor Gormley, the
gross earnings OF all port properties
for 1924 would total s1,O56,2S7.S1 for
the year.
Sudden and unexplained activity in
the hop market has caused rapid ab-
sorption by buyers of a large quantity
OF Yakima hops. which are to be ship
ped, it was said TO Europe, South
America and Japan. But 1900 bales
are now left in the valley out of
cror of $1,000 bales. The activity
boosted the price from ten cents to
fifteen cents pound.
-Four requests for The calling of a
special grand jury to investigate re-
cent bribery and graft have been
made to the judges of the King county
superior court Presiding Judge G.l.
liam spoke for the whole bench in an
nouncing that action on the requests
probably would be deferred until the
regular monthly meeting of the judges.
the first Tuesday in January
James Felhaber 1S-year-old orphan,
was killed by cougar after desper.
ate battle in which the boy welded
jack-kDiie, in the hills near Olema.
midway between Brewster and Okano-
gan. Searching parties found the
jackknife covered with blood. Nearby
under bush lay the body 1t evident.
ly had been hidden by the cougar.
The body was badly mutilated.
Notice of appeal to the state
supreme court from the decision of
Judge Wilson of the Thurston county
court dismissing the petition Of the
Home Telephone e Telegraph com.
pany of Spokane for review of the
valuation of the company's properly
as set forth in the order issued by the
department of public works March 81
1923, has been filed by the company.
Harry Huneclie, injured in an ex
plosion in the Burnett mine at Bur
nett, SO miles south of Seattle, dice
in Seattle hospital bringing the
total number of dead due to the catas
trophe to seven. The following, il
addition to Hunecke, are dead: B. H
Washburn, 40; Charles Kirby, 2S;
Elmer Crippen. 90; Elmer Landis, 81
e. i Rush 26 and Ernest II Ridley