Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-01

the SO acres occupied by the federal
penitentiary on McNeil's island in Pu.
get sound, it was announced by feier.
u authorities. Government timber in
The Olympics was exchanged for the
tract, school section owned by the
state.
Virtually every available able
bodied business man in Colfax was
out on squirrel poisoning cam
paign last week. Thousands of pounds
OF cyanide was distributed and the
hills in the vicinity of Colfax were
covered with men, carrying cans Of
the poison.
For the first time in history, tomato
growers of the Walla Walla valley
will fight frost with fire. F. E. Mo-
jonnier, president of the Freewater
Tomato Growers association, states
that orchard heaters will be used as
an experiment by a dozen to Is of the
larger growers.
This state is not getting full value
for the money it is spending, c. e.
Arney of Seattle, secretary of the
State Association of Taxpayers
leagues, told the Waila Walla chamber
OF commerce. There is too much du-
plication of courses in the institutions
- b;cbar aJ,oat;n,, he eoid
A citizens committee in Seattle,
created February IS by Mrs. Henry
Landes, then acting mayor, reports
that traffic fatalities in the first guar
ter of 1925 were 1888 per cent more
than in the same period last year.
Traffic fatalities in Seattle in the first
three months of 1924 were six, and
this year 26.
While some timber operators in the
state are complaining of the dreafy
outlook of the lumber market, others
are clamoring for an opportunity to
buy state timber in such quantities
chat the state has three crews of TIN
ber cruisers at work instead of the
customary one, Clark V. Savidge, COM
missioner of public lands, declares.
Due to certain rules and practices
of the United States supreme court,
the state has had to wait II years
for refund of an overpayment of fees
for printing of documents in connec-
tion with case heard by the court
in October, 1908. John H. Dunbar,
attorney-general, has discovered. A
check for s55413 has just been re-
ceived by the state from William R.
Stansbury, clerk of the court.
A stone marking the place near
where the great Indian council of 1855
was held was dedicated at Walla
Walla by Narcissa Prentiss chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton. The stone was erected on a
part of the public library lot. It was
near where Governor Stevens met
with chiefs of the Nez Perce, Yakima,
Cayuse and Walla Walla Indian tribes
May 20 to June II, 1855, and reserva-
tions were allotted to the Indians.
A permanent site for headquarters
for the summer exercises OF the mill
tia of the state has been chosen, Brig
adler General Clarence B. Blethen,
commanding the National Guard of
Washington, announced. Major A. w.
McMorris, U. S. A., assisted in the
choice. The site is Stony ridge, at
American lake, heavily wooded and
commanding view of the parade
ground For the summers camp, at
which $500 men are expected, the site
is to carry two mammoth tents and IA
smaller ones.
Two eastern Washington paving
contracts taken under advisement
April IA when the bids were opened,
have been awarded by the state high
way committee. The contract for pay
lH6 90 uliieo vi Lut IuldHu IIuIil Z
highway between Dixie and Coppei in
Walla Walla county was awarded to
Homer G. Johnson of Walla Walla on
his bid of s160,429.46. and the con-
tract for paving one mile of the same
highway from Yakima north was
awarded to Hardy & Richings of Yak
ina at s54.SSS.43.
After characterizing the contract
under which the Kittitas unit OF the
Yakima irrigation project is to be
developed as only one more step, far
too many of which have already been
taken, toward socialism and paternal-
ism in government" Governor Hart
ley announced that he had directed
Eric J. Barnes, director of conserva.
tion and development. not to sign the
contract. The portion of the contract
to which the governor most strenuous.
ly objected. he said, was that in which
the state was obliged to undertake the
actual settlement of the land after
the water had finally been placed on
Il.