Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-06
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

DR.. c. Hopkins, 81, pioneer news
paperman of the West, died at his
home in Tacoma. He gave Bill Nye
his first newspaper job, at Laramie
Wyo.
Fire Chief Fred Wilcox, in his an
nual report to the city commission
showed fire loss in Centralia last
year of SPLITS, with an average loss
per fire of $17S.7S.
The Walla Walla Chamber of Com
merce has indorsed the move to have
the state take over the Walla Walla'
Franklin county toll bridge and make
1t a free thoroughfare.
Alexander Ivanof, Russian general
against the Germans in the World
war, died in Seattle last week from
a spinal injury suffered while playing
tennis Thanksgiving day.
A bottle dropped into Columbia lake
by Amos Burg when he started on his
trip down the Columbia river in a
canoe, was picked up January % on
Ilwaco beach in Bakers bay.
Cutting of telephone wires helped
two robbers to escape with more than
$4,000 after they had held up Vaughn
Bosley, assistant cashier Of the
Bothell State bank of Bothell.
There will be no increase in
charges for grazing cattle and sheep
on national forests during 1925 and
1926, Secretary Gore of the depart
ment of agriculture has announced.
Owners of the Grange Warehouse
company of Kalama at the annual
meeting voted to purchase a site and
erect concrete building to house
their constantly increasing business.
With the commissioning of another
75-foot rum chaser Saturday morning,
followed by two more on Monday, the
full complement of fifteen of this class
of craft is on duty in Puget Sound
waters.
The Northwestern Electric company
will begin construction of high ten
sion power line from Vancouver to the
site of the power plant to be erected
ON Lewis river, about the middle of
February.
Careful examination of the buds Of
cherries, prunes and apples has con-
vinced R. B. Phipps, district horticul-
tural inspector of Vancouver, that vir-
tually no damage was caused by freez-
ing weather.
The Falconer Byrkit corporation of
Boise, Idaho, has purchased 1000 acres
. of wheat and grazing land in north
east Walla Walla county from E. C.
Lloyd, according to Il deed filed at
Walla Walla.
After being closed less than two
weeks, the Miners and Merchants
bank of Chelan has reopened for bust
ness with no loss to any of the de.
positors, ]. C. Minshull, supervisor Of
banking, announces.
An automobile in which bandits who
robbed the Riverside branch of the
Bank of Commerce and obtained S3,-
592, drove away, was found at
Everett. No further trace of the rob-
bers has been found.
No word has been received at Yaki-
ma from Philip Phillips and Richard
Van Vliet, two youths who left that
city over two weeks ago to "mush"
across the Cascade range to Paradise
Inn, Rainier national park.
Sales under competitive bids of ripe
timber on approximately 10,022 acres
OF the Little Falls unit of the Spokane
Indian reservation in the state Of
Washington was authorized by Secre-
tary of the Interior Work.
The Anacortes Rotary club has vot-
ed to purchase park of ten acres near
the southwest point of Guemes Island
to be used as permanent summer
camp for Skagit county Boy Scouts,
and for other organizations.
The joint road and bridge committee
Of the senate and house at Olympia
has agreed upon an appropriation Of
S57S.679 for the Ocean beach highway
from Kelso to the sea, Of which $780,
900 is new appropriation and $751;
679 is reappropriation of unexpend
cd funds from the last biennium.
Plans we're made by Walter r.
Meier, Incorporation counsel of Se-
attle, and Hugh NJ. Caldwell exmayor,
to bring suit to keep city manager
form of government proposal Off the
ballot in an election March 10.