Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-02
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

ferred by Judge Poland in a prelimin.
ary hearing before Justice Of the
Peace Kerr Of Longview
Two shifts, including approximate,
ly 80 men, are employed on the bridge
for the Columbia & Cowlitz railway to
span the Cowlitz river north of Kelso
The Hart Construction company is
rushing work so as to have the piers
in before freshet comes.
The state equalization committee
placed valuation of s2,74S.067 on
Cowlitz county railway and public
telegraph company property, cutting
the county ratio from A to 40, which
resulted in considerable reduction
In valuations from last year.
A closed automobile with man
about 60 years old in it went off a
bridge at Seattle in fog and plunged
20 feet deep in Lake Union. The
man swan out, sat on log survey
ing things while, remarked I'm
all right" and hurried away.
Notice was received at the stat
forestry office at Olympia that this
state will receive its full allotment Of
$S1,45O under the Clark-McNary act
for money spent by state and private
agencies in forest-fire prevention be-
tween July and September 20.
After more than three years of con
troversy, both In courts and before
the state department Of public works,
the log rate case is approaching settle
ment agreeable to log shippers and
carriers, ]. L. Bridge, chairman of the
Associated Log Shippers conference
committee, announced at Seattle.
A quarantine order barring ship.
ments of livestock, hay, fodder and
similar commodities into Washington
from Texas has been issued. Diff.
culties being encountered by both fed
eral and state officials in enforcing
quarantine measures against the foot
and-mouth disease in Texas made such
action necessary.
Plans for three-story fireproof
building to cost about $4,000, to be
erected on the grounds of Washington.
Oregon Pythian home at Vancouver,
are being considered by the home
board. and will probably be presented
to the grand lodges of Washington and
Oregon, at the annual convention. The
building will be used to house the chill.
dren at the home and later another
building will be erected in order to
have separate buildings for the boys
and girls.
The open season for deer, bear and
upland birds is the same in the coun-
ties Of Clarke, Cowlitz and Skamania.
The upland bird season extends from
October l to 15; the bear and deer
season from October 1 to 81, with a
limit Of one buck deer with horns to
each hunter, for the season. There
Is no limit on bear. The daily bag
limit on upland birds is two China
pheasants or three of native birds,
pheasants or grouse. Five Hungar.
Ian pheasants can be added to the
bag limit on other birds.
Reports from 81 of the 23 canneries
Of the Puget sound district show a
total pack Of humpback salmon for
the season ending September of $780,,
LEO cases, while returns from the
other two canneries are expected to
bring the total to more than $4,000
cases, 1t was announced by Charles r.
Marbury, director of game and fish
This is the best humpback pack in the
past six years, the pack two years ago
running approximately 475,O0O cases
and four years ago 100000 cases, the
big run being every two years.
The Great Northern railway, which
announced last spring that It would
electrify It's line over the Cascade
mountains, has ordered survey for a
tunnel s1a miles long. This project
would carry the Great Northern over
the Cascades at an extreme elevation
of $500 feet instead of 1881, which is
the height of bore In use called the
Cascade tunnel. Construction of the
Sk.mile tunnel, which would run from
Scenic on the west side of the sum.
nit to Berne on the eastern slope, is
part Of the electrification program, II
was stated.
A total Of more than 1900 forest
fires OF all classes, burning over more
than $4,000 acres, occurred In this dis
trict during the forest fire season this
year, and have cost more than S1S9.
900 since July 1, according to sum
mary report released by forest servic,
officials. or the total number of fires
i94 were caused, as compared
with 1894 caused by lightning. or this
number 157 were caused by careless
smokers and 20 were incendiary. Con
victions Of causing forest fires mum
hered 13S The Whitman natinnn