Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-18


$l260.9S less than those OF July. Toll
receipts for August totaled $49,OO5. .05.
The report for eight months of 1925
showed an increase over the same
months In 1924 Of $l2,024.6S.
Indicating the extensive operations
planned by the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company for their Cowlitz county de.
velopment they have asked the North.
ern Pacific Railway company to pro-
vide two spur tracks, each capable OF
holding 80 cars, at the juncture of the
Northern Pacific and Columbia and
Cowlitz railway tracks north of Kelso.
Charges Of embezzlement filed
against seven prominent Kelso, citi.
zens by A. Rurlc Todd. deposed mayor
OF kelso, were dismissed by Justice
Mccoy in Castle Rock on preliminary
hearing, due to absence of testimony
and failure of the complaining wit
ness, Todd, to appear. A charge OF
perjury filed against State Senator
Barnes was also dismissed.
As evidence that the Seattle munich.
pal hydro-electrlc plant on the Skagit
river Is In successful operation, vii.
liam Hickman Moore, city councilman,
announced the total production of the
first year Of operation Of the plant at
16o,0o0,0O0 kilowatt hours of electric
energy. This electrical energy, Moore
declared, represented gross earnings
of approximately ss,OOO.000.
Announcement was made at Seattle
that Raymond B. Wilcox, president Of
the Wilcox-Hayes company Of Port.
land, Or, had been accepted by James
A. Farrell Of New York, president Of
the United States Steel corporation
and the national foreign trade coun.
ell, as one Of 90 executives Of the
council. The organization met in its
18th annual convention in Seattle
June 1926.
Members Of the Washington Grow.
ers' Packing corporation of Clarke
county will this year receive an ad.
vance Of cents a pound on all
prunes under SOS in size and cents
a pound on the smaller sizes, on de.
livery at the packing plant. This is
the largest advance payment ever
made by the association. The way
sizes run this year nearly all grow.
ers will receive S cents.
Timber sold Oh the national for.
ests of Oregon and Washington for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1925,
amounted to 704,3S6,OOO board feet,
valued at $1,44s,sss.4s, according to
the report Of the forest service re.
lating to the national forests of Ore.
gon and Washington. The national
forests Of the two states contain 217,.
745,196.00o board feet Of standing tim.
ber according to service estimates.
Mrs. William Bryant of Grand
Mound is in St. Luke's hopital at Cen.
tralia with serious injuries sustained
when one-pound shell exploded in
the Bryant home. Mrs. Bryant found
the she'll in field where the 41st
tank company, Centralia's national
guard unit, had been practtcing. MOI
knowing 1t was loaded, she carried il,
home and placed 1t on the dining room
table, whence 1t rolled to the floor
exploding.
Contending that the fair valuation
of their properties should not exceed
S1,174,372, representatives Of the
Grays Harbor Railway & Light com
pany Of Aberdeen appeared before the
state board of equalization at Olympia
The valuation was apportioned al
S235,221 to the street railway system
and $941,151 for the power system
The valuation placed on the properties
by the state tax commission amounted
to s1.5s1,937.
The Northern Pacific railway has
announced the publication of a new
booklet containing statistics ant
photographs Of the general resources
Of Washington and northern Idaho fol
distribution to prospective settlers
The booklet stated that "Washingtor
is In the corn belt" and pictures show
ed tall corn on farm OF S. D. Cor
nell at Grandview, which broke the
worlds record with $3.50 pounds o.
silage from one acre.
Failure Of the Bank OF Pasco tt
open its doors Friday and action OF the
directors in turning the bank over tt
the state supervisor Of banking fol
liquidation, was announced at the Of
flee at Olympia, Of H. c. Johnson
bank supervisor. The Bank OF Pasco
Mr.. Johnson states, is In difficultie,
owing to short crops and inability t.
realize upon frozen assets. Deposi.
liability is approximately s3S0,O00, T.
is stated BY the department, with capi
tai Of $4,000 and surplus Of $4,000
No estimate ia made as to probable re