Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-06
Washington News

SPOKANB.-Three officers of tho
Columbia Basin Irrigation League
President Hervey Lindley of Seattle
Fred Adams of Spokane, federal di
rector, James Kyle, oregon, member
OF the board of trustees have gone to
Washington in anticipation of the re-
port Of the Department of the Interior
on its investigation into the feast.
bility of the Columbia Basin irriga.
tion project, 1t was announced at the
leagues offices here.
WALLA WALLA.E. c. Burlingame
said recently that the percentage of
twins in sheep is running higher than
usual. Hothouse Landing is well un
der way, and on ranges will begin
soon. The increase is about 100 per
cent.
OLYMPIA. - Washington contains
only per cent of all United States
registered Holsteins, yet over rs per
cent Of all Holstein records of produc
ton are held by Washington Hol-
stems.
MOUNT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS driv.
ing to Mount Rainier National Park
during winter months hereafter will
be required to equip their automo'
biles with anti-skid chains, o. A.
Tomlinson, park superintendent, an
nounced recently. Officials at the
park have had difficulty in keeping
the road open due to cars becoming
stalled when drivers get off the hard
packed snow in the middle of the
road.
OLYMPIA.-Belief that liquidation
of the defunct Scandinavian-American
Bank of Tacoma can be completed
and final dividends to depositors dis.
tributed by the middle of the coming
summer, was expressed by J. G. Min
shull, supervisor Of banking, here re.
Gently. The remaining assets of the
institution, aggregating about a mil
lion dollars, can probably be turned
into money by that time.
OLYMPIA. = Automobile owners
with 1924 Idaho license plates will be
permitted to use them until March Is,
Fred ]. Dibble, director of licenses,
notified peace officers in Washington
recently. The extension of the time
on last years plates is due to an &C
ton by the Idaho legislature.
OLYMPIA-When Governor Roland
Hartley signed senate bills Nos. Al
and 60, he made available S17S6O,000.
70 for expenditures on state highways
within the next biennium OF this
sum, which is pertty generally dis
tributed over the state, great por
ton will be spent in Western Wash
ington on the Olympic and Pacific
Highways.
CHEHALIS. =, Richard Nicholas
Theodore Bowles, Everett Sches
strom, Harry Dean, Clarence Hurl
bert, Morris Evan, Kenneth Shelby
Thomas Mcdonald and Paul Dancer,
pupils OF the eighth grade of the State
Training School here, passed the state
eighth grade examination, Schesstrom
leading all Lewis County students in
credits.
SUMNER.-Ralph Wright, employe
of the Puget Sound Power & Light
Company, was seriously burned re
Gently when he came in contact with
power line bearing $4,000 volts
while working near Dieringer, two
miles east of here. Wright was treat
ed here by DR.. B. ]. Gilshannon be
fore being taken to the Valley Hos
pital in Puyallup, where it is said he
would recover.
MONTESANO. = The board of al
rectors of the Grays Harbor Dairy
mems Association has elected w. j
Berns, WynooChe Valley, as president
for the coming year, according to an
announcement made here recently
The other officers are: A. A, Siefert
Ford Prairie, first vice-president; Viii
lard Turner, Wishkah Valley, second
vice-president, and John P. Murphy
Montesano, secretary and manager
SEATTLE.-Volunteer helpers ant
the game warden of the district of St