Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-30

Lewis.
When a cable on his stump puller
snapped, Fred Hoaglan, and Evaline
farmer, was hurled headlong into
fire in stump which he was burning
out His two sons rushed to his rescue
and dragged Hoagland out of the fire,
otherwise he would have been burn
ed alive.
Bishop Sumner of Portland, Or, was
in charge of simple funeral services
at Seattle Saturday morning for
Canon w. II. Bliss, late rector OF
Trinity Parish Protestant Episcopal
church, who died in New York city
after returning from an opium confer
ence at Geneva.
The Seattle city council, which de-
cided January 8 to spend $15,000,000
to develop the municipal lighting sys-
TEN and construct on Ruby creek in
the Cascade mountains an additional
unit to power project, have decided
to employ engineers to give advice be-
fore going ahead.
Means of equaliZing the tax burdens
Of the citizens OF the state, and dis
cussion of the proposed constitutional
amendment for classification of prop
erty for tax purposes, were the prin-
cipal topics under consideration at
the convention in Olympia of county
assessors of the state.
Chester Leichhardt, Cowlitz county
game warden, and ]. F. Murk, dep
uty game warden, are trapping beaver
in diking district No. 13, near Kelso.
The beaver are boring into the dixie,
threatening permanent injury to the
protective wall, and farmers requested
that they be removed
One hundred and eighteen mills re-
porting to the West Coast Lumber
mems association for the week ending
January IT, manufactured 102,2S4,1S6
feet Of lumber sold 106,O14,206 feet;
and shipped 115,214,26S feet. New
business was per cent above pro-
duction. Shipments were per cent
above new business.
Recommendation that the legisla-
lures of the four Pacific northwestern
states make provisions for complete
survey of water resources within their
boundaries with view to an equitable
apportionment of water for the Colum.
bia basin irrigation project was made
at a meeting of the trustees of the
Columbia Basin Irrigation league at
Spokane.
More than 100 citizens of Cowlitz
county assembled at Woodland and
unanimously indorsed a proposal to
bond Cowlitz county for S675,000 for
road improvements, the money to be
divided equally between the three
commissioners districts, and resi-
dents of each district to decide upon
improvements to be undertaken in
that district.
A county commissioner cannot be
director of an irrigation district, ac-
cording to B. b. Adams, assistant at
torney general in an opinion given to
C. w. Clausen, supervisor of municipal
corporations. In case directors of
an irrigation district should refuse
to make levy of annual assessment,
the county commissioners are forced
to make the proper levy.
A financial report of the Snohomish
County Dairymen's association shows
the association has total assets Of
s436.46057. The milk sales for 1924
were reported as follows: Evaporated
milk 615,003 pounds; butter 334,974
pounds; sweet cream, 2O3,0S1; raw
milk, 3,S79,343 pounds; condensed skim
milk, 131,434 pounds; pasteurized
skim milk 71S,445 pounds; buttermilk,
1S6.026 ounds.
Permission for the voluntary liquida-
tion of the Okanogan State bank at
Riverside and it's. branch at Loomis
has been given by the state division
of banking. The banks were closed
last week. Liquidation will be effect
ed by sale of the assets of the main
bank at Riverside to the Citizens State
bank of Omak The assets of the
Loomis branch will be sold to the
First National bank of Tonasket.
Five men were killed and three
others suffered serious injuries as a
result of landslide at hydro.electric
project which the Puget Sound Power
G. Light company is building on the
Baker river near Concrete. The dead
Charles Barkus of Seattle, Robert
Small of Concrete, Andy Norman Of
Bremerton, l.. w. Anderson of Bremen
ton. Richard Turner of Henderson, n.
c. Frank Heffernan and w. J.
Skeels OF Seattle, and Sidney Curtis