Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-23
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS


sioner in Seattle. Watson was charg.
ed with participation in $4,000 bank
robbery at Nanaimo, b. c., December
12.
Reclamation construction in the
Yakima valley during the coming gov.
ernment fiscal year will be limited for
the most part to work on the Kittitas
highline project. The sum to be ex.
pended will be the smallest in many
years, according to government of.
ficials.
The fire loss in Ellensburg during
the year just closed amounted to S101,.
125, the heaviest since the memorable
city fire Of 1889, according to Reginald
L. Ford, chief of the fire department.
The heaviest loss was the destruction
Of the Washington grade school build.
ing, valued at $4,000.
Philip Tindall, Seattle councilman,
VIII pc tiie pIluClpdl SpedhcI az
mass meeting Of Yakima reservation
farmers and other citizens ON January
20. in the |. O. o. +. hall at Wapato
for the purpose of decisive action to
put an end to alleged leasing of reser.
vation lands to japanese.
The supreme court has set aside an
assessment made by George +. De-
graft, treasurer of Spokane county, in
ruling on an appeal Of the Union Trust
company from the judgment of the
Spokane superior court, in connection
with development of the Carnhop irri,
CATION district near Spokane.
Directors of the Skagit County Fair
association have elected David M. Don,
nelley of Sedro-Woolley, president;
Peter Osdal of Bow, vice president;
e. L. Wilson of Burlington, treasurer;
W. ]. S. Gordon of Mount Vernon,
secretary. 1t was decided to hold the
fair at Burlington the week of August
Twenty men are working in indus,
trial plants in the state who have
suffered broken necks, another is
ready to start work after having re,
covered from such an accident, and
four others are convalescing, DR.. F.
A. Bird, medical examiner of the de.
partment of labor and industries, de,
clares.
One hundred and eighteen mills re
porting to the West Coast Lumber,
mems association for the week end
ing January 10 manufacturer 99,939,
00S feet of lumber sold 79,252,90 feet
and shipped SO,903,540 feet. New bust
ness was Is per cent below production
Shipments were per cent above new
business.
An application of the Municipal
league Of Seattle for an order re.
straining the city, mayor, chief OF
police, commissioner of health and
city market master from interfering
with the league seeking names on a
petition for city manager form OF
government was dismissed in superior
court at the request of the plaintiff.
A proposed amendment to the state
game laws which would make it un.
lawful to disturb" any game bird dur.
ing the closed season is opposed in a
resolution adopted by the board OF
governors of the Cascade Field Trial
club of Kittitas county on the ground
that such law, if strictly enforced
would automatically stop the training
of dogs and ths holding of field trials.
Mrs. Seaborg, widow of the late
of fisheries, will be entitled
to a claim in the industrial insurance
act for the death of her husband, ac
cording to former Director Carl L
Schuff, of the department of labor and
industries. The compensation Law
places all peace officers under the act,
and the fisheries code makes the
of the division peace Of
ficer.
Four damage claims totaling S706.50
has been filed with the city council
of Aberdeen as the sequel to an auto
mobile accident at the North Aber
deem bridge across the Wishkah river,
two weeks ago. The four plaintiffs,
in the claims against the city, plung
ed through the side of the bridge into
the river. They claim that the bridge
is not properly equipped and safe
guarded against accidents.
The Loggers' Information associa.
tion of Seattle has denounced the
Washington state department of labo!
and industries, saying it was not sat
isfied with explanations concerning al
increased Industrial insurance rate fix
ed last year. During a nine-year period
the rate started at 2k per cent and
with slight fluctuations finished with .
decrease of 10 per cent. In 1924 1t wal