Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-14


covered by insurance. The blaze is
believed 10 have started from de-
fective wiring. The building housed
600 pupils,
One of me largest lots of struggled
narcotics to be found in Seattle for
more than year was seized by Gus
toms inspectors on the steamship
President jefferson of the American
Oriental Mail line. Federal agents dis
covered 1877 fiye,tael tins of narcotics,
said by authorities to have wholesale
value of $4,000.
Two million feet of standing timber
in the Wenatehee national forest have
been sold TO the Cascade Lumber com.
pany of Yakima, under contract be,
tween that firm and the United States
forest service. The company will pay
$3.50 a thousand for all pine and so
cents thousand for all other species,
including larch, Douglas and white
ir.
To compensate Mrs. Florence Black
for injuries received when Puyallupr
Tacoma automobile stage threw a
wheel on the Puyallup highway De-
cember 10, jury in Judge Chapman's
court at Tacoma awarded her $4,000
damages in her suit against the Puy-
allup-Tacoma Transit company and
the United States Inter-Insurance COM
pany,
During the first four days of Novem-
her apple shipments from north. cen
trail Washington were 531 cars, or one
third as many as some shippers esti-
mated would go out during the entire
month. Total shipments for the sea-
son are more than 5000 cars. How
many apples are left in the district
is not known, but a survey is being
made.
With all but seven of the 5l6 pre-
cincts in the fifth congressional dis
trict occupying the northeast corner of
Washington, tabulated unofficially, ex-
Judge Sam B. Hill OF Waterville, demo-
Graf, appears to have been reelected
to the house of representatives. Con-
gresham Hill had lead of 565 over
]. Edward Ferguson, Wenatchee, re-
publican.
Suit for S1S4,52941 has been filed in
superior court at Montesano by the
Wynooche Timber company against
the Schafer Brothers Logging COM
pany, for damages alleged to have
been received by the destruction of
a large amount of merchantable tim
Der and logging apparatus in forest
fire which struck the plaintiffs prop
erty July %, 1924.
Yakima waterusers have been eau
toned by the state supervisor of n.y.
draulics, Marvin Chase, to make neces-
sary repairs TO their irrigation sys-
tens now that the water is o., for the
season and weather permits. Citing
the fact that the last season there
was much less precipitation through
out the northwest than for several
seasons he asks all water-users to do
everything to conserve water for next
season.
One of the biggest orders for huge
timbers ever placed in the Pacific
northwest is being cut by the Ostrand-
er Railway & Timber company at its
mill at Ostrander, four miles north Of
Kelso This order is for between 500,
900 and 100000 feet of mammoth tim
bers to build gates for the new We'll
lard canal connecting the Great Lakes
with the St. Lawrence river. The order
WIS received from the Canadian gov.
eminent
Application for writ of certiorari
to compel the state board of equaliza-
ton to produce pertinent portions of
proceedings in raising the Northern
Pacific property valuations in this
state was filed in Thurston county
superior court at Olympia by attorneys
for the railway company. The ap.
plication alleged that the company's
valuation was unlawfully increased
from S12o,I82,105 to 1926, 455,7OO at
proceedings held in Olympia septem.
Der Is, 1924
Mrs. Samuel G. Cosgroye, widow O
Washington's former governor, is to
be chosen to take the states seve
electoral votes to Washington, D. G.
aud cast them for President Coolidge
it was learned at Seattle when tn
winning electors assured her of then
support, Mrs, Cosgrove was nominal
ed fer eloctor at the Wenatchee con.
yenuon by Governor Louis p. Harl
This is the first time any woman il
the history Of The state has bee
selected for the honor,
Two new pleasure resorts on Blew
cit pass Sunset highway, will be open
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