Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

between four and five mills in ta,
levies. Increased appropriations az
gregating nearly s3,75O,OOO have beer
asked.
Aleck Swanson, 45, a logger employ
cd by the Cascade Lumber company
at Casland, died at an Ellensburg hos
pital from injuries suffered when {
stick Of dynamite exploded when ht
went to investigate the reason 1t hat
failed to detonate earlier. He was
blasting stumps.
The federal power commission has
denied both the city of Aberdeen ant
the Grays Harbor Railway & Ligh,
company preliminary permits for pow
er development on the Wynooche
river. The reason given is that there
is no apparent necessity at presen,
for the development.
Headquarters of trans.continental
railway lines at Seattle have reported
that the Pacific northwest had the
largest increase In rail passenger traf.
fic in America last summer From
May 16 to July 81 the increase in the
number Of valuations in Seattle was
81 per cent more than last year.
An increase of 3S in the number of
arrests by the sheriff for liquor law
violations in the year ending Septem-
her 80, as compared with the same
period last year, was shown by the
report of Sheriff Thomson Of Clarke
county. The number this year was
1879, compared with 161 last year.
Governor Hartley, declaring that
the policy involved is the same,"
has issued statement in which he
declined to accept the offer Of the
Kitbtas Land Settlement company to
underwrite the 100000 obligation of
the state in settling the $9,OOO,OO0 Kit
titas irrigation project development.
Reopening of logging camps of the
Cascade Timber company, near Alder
and Ashford, on the Tacoma Eastern
branch of the Milwaukee, as a result
Of the settlement of the log rate dis,
pute between the railroads and log.
cling interests, was announced. Prob
ably 500 men will be employed in the
reopened camps.
Two oil firms, one an independent
company operating out of Olympia
and the other large eastern firm,
lave completed the leasing of approxi-
lately 200 square miles in eastern
Grays Harbor county and southwest
crn Mason county for oil exploration
purposes. The entire area leased is
in the Satsop watershed.
Five hundred employees of the Will
con Bros and Aberdeen Lumber &
Single company saw mills at Aber-
deem went on strike last week, joining
the striking workmen of two Donovan
Lumber company plants in a plea for
raise Of so cents day in wages.
The total number of men idle was
1900 and four mills closed.
Volunteer bucket squads and then
a fire engine from Seattle curbed
flames that destroyed the Fall City
hotel, in Fall City, on the Snoqualmie
river. To save the town the fighters
let the hotel burn and concentrated
their efforts on garage and barn.
The barn burned and the garage was
damaged. Loss was put at $4,000.
Founding of Bishop Keator
scholarship endowment fund as a
lasting memorial to the Rt. Rev.
Frederic w. Keator, late bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Olympia, is announced. The endow-
ment fund has been esta blished by the
Episcopal clergymen of the diocese as
their memorial to the Tacoma man.
Railroad valuations in Klickitat
county have been boosted S251,6l7 as
result of the raise made by the
| state tax commission on the assessed
value of the Spokane, Portland G. Sc.
attic Railway company property in the
state of Washington. The total assess.
ed valuation of the railway property
in Klickitat county for 1925 is S3,972,-
256.
Confidence in the benefits OF CO.
operation was shown by the fact that
owners CT 100 acres of bearing prune
trees In Clarke county who had never
Joined the Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation signed up in three
weeks the pool was open, September
to October 1. Members of the cor
poration own over 1000 acres of bear.
ng prune trees.
J. Il. Cloutier, for the past three
months carpenter at the Grays Har-
Dor Commercial company, Cosmopolis,
md previously resident of Seattle
lied In an Aberdeen hospital as a re.
suit of having been beaten, tied hand
md foot, gagged, and left near the up