Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-17

eliminate the contract attached to the
Kittitas reclamation project appropria-
tion requiring the state of Washing
ton to assume the obligation for the
settlement of the land.
The Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade
railway, expects to let contract by
the middle of July on the 14-mile ex-
tension from its present terminus at
Lacamas, 10 miles southeast of Che
halls. 1t is planned to be operating
into Salkum by the end of the year.
A decision was reached at meet
ing of prominent Masons at Vancouver
to proceed at once with the work of
financing a Masonic temple to be
erected on the block owned by the
order at Seventeenth and Main streets.
This building will cost approximately
100000 furnished.
An election held at Vancouver to
vote $4,000 bonds for extending the
city dock to make room for ware
house failed as the number of votes
polled fell below so per cent OF the
votes cast in the last general election,
percentage required by law passed
by the 1925 legislature.
The body of D. J. Wynkoop, "a,
night Waterman in fruit warehouse
at Yakima, was found in the mill pond
Of the Cascade Lumber company. An
examination Of the body showed two
deep gashes on the forehead and po-
lice advanced the theory that the old
| man had been murdered.
Roland H. Hartley and B. F. Hill,
who as republican and democratic
candidates for the governorship bat
tied each other last fall, stood on the
same platform at Walla Walla and
warmly welcomed the Veterans of For
eign Wars, who held their fifth annual
state convention in that city.
Indication that the interstate com.
merce commission will permit the
abandonment by the Port Townsend
& Southern Railroad company of a
| portion of its line In Jefferson county
was given in Washington, D. c., when
the tentative report of the examiner
who heard arguments in the case ap-
proved such course.
Horace White and John A. jacket,
members of the Klickitat Valley Wool
| Growers association, Inc, are not sat.
isfied with prices offered on the coast
for July delivery and plan to ship 10
carloads of fattened lambs to the Chi.
cago market this year unless there is
decided Increase in prices offered
for northwest delivery.
Complete weather observation ap-
paratus and powerful radio receiving
set have been installed by the Long.
Bell Lumber company on Baw Faw
peak, highest point in the company's
| 100000 acres of timber holdings. The
peak, which is 300 feet above sea
level and heavily timbered to the top,
is IA miles northwest of Ryderwood.
United States Senator Jones of
Washington, taking issue with Vice
President Dawes on revision of sen.
ate rules, declared in statement pub.
lished in Seattle that full, free, and
If you please, unlimited discussion of
Legislative measures is the greatest
protection the ordinary citizen has
against encroachment upon his
rights"
A new channel for the Cowlitz river,
cut by the Longview Portland &
Northern Railway company to avoid
building two bridges, has practically
drained the old channel. Recent dredg.
ing of the new channel has caused
the current to become so swift as to
carry off all the water by the new
route, and the old river bed in places
is now dry.
| Chief Justice Tolman set July II
as the date on which arguments will
be heard in the appeal taken by ]. w.
Selden, prosecuting attorney of Pierce
county, from the order of dismissal
entered by Judge Govnor Teats of an
action which charged Ex-Governor
Hart with soliciting a bribe in the
liquidation of the defunct Scandina.
yian-American bank of Tacoma.
Sales made by mills of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association aggre.
gated 124,639,245 feet for the week
ending June 6, the highest record for
any week this year. Manufactured
output for the week of June 6 was
1O6,S4O.257 feet and shipm ents amount.
ed to 114,7S1,917 feet. New business
was II per cent above production and
shipments were per cent below new
business
The June l crop report for Wash.
ington shows rs per cent Increase in
spring wheat acreage over last year.
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