Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-01
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

Samuel II. Chase, Seattle, was
named chairman of newly-appointed
state tax commission by Governor
Hartley,
Construction is under way on two
huge sheds for the West Fir unit OF
the Long-Bel Lumber company plant
! at Longview.
Twenty-Five carloads Of produce a
week are now being shipped from the
Walla Walla valley. heads of produce
concerns estimate.
T. |. Dodge of Elma was elected
/ president of the Southwest Washing
ton Pioneers association at meet.
ing held at Rochester.
An executive order has been issued
setting aside 100 acres adjoining the
Wenatchee national fores. to be used
as station for forest rangers.
The legality of the s4,O00,0OO capitol
land and timber grant bond issue, au-
thorized by the 1925 legislature, was
upheld by the state supreme court.
thorough probe of the White
Bluffs-Hanford soldier settlement
project by the state commander OF
the American Legion will be made.
Announcement was made at Wenat-
chez by the Lake Chelan Fruit Grow
ers, Inc, that S35.OO0 addition would
be made to the cold storage plant at
| Cnelan.
| A statewide safety conference to be
held in Seattle May 16 was announced
by Martin ]. Flyzik, supervisor OF safe
ty of the department of labor and in
dustries.
An election will be called by the
Vancouver port commission to vote on
proposition to bond the port for
100000 to extend the city dock 400
feet to the east.
A note to his family and discharg-
ed pistol were found beside the dead
body of C. C. Ketchum, barber and
pool shop man at National. The man
had shot himself.
Mrs. G. R. Green, Seattle, was ap-
pointed inspector OF bakeries by Ira
| III. Case. supervisor of foods in the
department of agriculture, to succeed
Mrs. Coffin, Tacoma.
A quarantine against smallpox
which went into effect March II, re-
quiring all persons entering the Uni
ted States from Vancouver, B. c., to
be vaccinated, has been lifted.
John w. Miller, IS, was instantly
killed when he was caught under the
logs of runaway train at the camp
of the Washington Fir & Lumber COM
| pany, seven miles southeast of Win
lock-
Raymond J. Groat, SO, employed by
the Ryan & Allen Lumber company
at Stevenson, was killed instantly
when car on which he was riding
left the track and overturned, pinning
him underneath.
Warren Delaine, IA, while playing
with two small companions near his
home on Lopez island, was killed
when he was struck by stone hurled
by an explosion of dynamite with
which the boys were playing.
Tacoma mills $500 barrels of flour
a day, an output only 500 barrels un-
der that of New York city, according
to figures in the latest bulletin on
wheat circulated by the government
bureau of railway economics.
Leonard L. Kidd, 40, r-.ao has been
4 mail carrier in Seattle for 20 years,
admitted to postoffice inspectors TAX
ing an insured package containing jew
elry valued at $4,000. Five diamond
rings and a watch were recovered.
John c. Denney, director of public
works, attended milk and cream
rate hearing before the interstate
commerce commission in Salt Lake
City, April 27. The hearing was the
first of series in western states.
The largest apportionment ever dis
/ tributed to the schools of Clarke coun-
ty was received by the county school
superintendent. The total was s119,-
1O7.72. OF this sum sSO,O27S4 was
from the state and s3O,O79SS from the
county.
Checks totaling about 100000 were
mailed out at Yakima to the Kittitas
haygrowers who are members of the
Northwest Hay association by L. A.
Hunt, manager. The payment is al
most the final one to be MADE for the
1923 pools.
Announcement was made by Senator
Norman, following a trip to Olympia
to confer with State Highway Engi-
neer Hoover, that the entire appro-
priation of 100000 for the Raymond
Aberdeen road would be expended on
work from the Raymond end