Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-06-19

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Tho lIquidating agent OF tho Amer,
ican State bank OF Ritzville has mail
cd out the second dividend for 20 per
cent OF tho amount Of tho deposits, Tho
payments totaled more thnn 100000.
The bank failed In October.
Reports from eastern Washington
wheat fields indicate that the outlool;
Is splendid, In Franklin, Adams and
Whitman counties tho stand Is good,
and farmers are optimistic. In many
localities conditions were never better.
William Blakeley, 34 was instantly
killed at Concrete when his heart was
pierced by a piece OF wood that lad
been hurled by circular saw. Blake
ley was trying to convert the stick
which was too long, into a wedge by
feeding" 1t into the saw.
The state board OF equalization has
valued the Seattle & Rainier Valley
railway. the only private car line IN
Seattle, which the city has been nego
tiating to purchase, at s947,5O0. The
city offered sl,200,OOO. while the rail
way company demanded s1,325.OO0.
The Port Angeles commercial club
unanimously endorsed the port pro
ject as outlined for the election OF
June "a, when the county will vote on
S4SO,OOO bonds for lumber dock and
storage space, dock at Dungeness
and work in the Quillayute river sew
enty-five miles west OF Port Angeles.
A new city to be known as Ocean
City has been founded in Grays Har.
Dor county, the county commissioners
having approved the application. The
city Is situated about two miles south
of Copalis Beach on Connors creek
and will be featured as summer re
sort.
The Centralia city commission has
instructed the city clerk to call TO,
bids for the construction of trunk
sewer and laterals In the west and
northwest sections OF the city. TT
bids will be opened on June 0. The
estimated cost of the sewer is In the
neighborhood of $4,000.
William d. Askren, state supreme
court justice will deliver the com
mencement address to the 1925 grad
uating class of the Everett high school
at exercises to be held ON June II
This years graduating class numbers
166, which is the largest number ever
graduated at one time by the school
Officers of the Masonic grand lodge
of the state of Washington participat
ed in laying the cornerstone of the
first of five cottages to be erected by
the Washington Children's Home so
ciety at Home Valley, three miles east
of Carson. The cottages will be locat
ed on tract Of 200 acres owned by
the association and located on the
Evergreen highway overlooking the
Columbia river.
Denial Of the charge that speed
traps are being operated in Kalama
Castle Rock and Kelso were made by
officers in the three towns in com
menting on story from Walla Walla
D,,fh
of the Walla Walla Automobile club
with the announcement that six speed
traps are in operation on the Pa
cific highway between Portland an6
Seattle, including the three Cowlit;
county towns.
Pursuant to request OF the county
commissioners that their verbal re
quest for action for new courthouse
be submitted in writing, committee
of six representing the Thurston
Mason County Bar association present
ed signed petition to the board ask
ing that the question of bonding
Thurston county for 100000 for the
construction of a new and adequate
courthouse be submitted to the people
of the county at an early date.
Holding in effect that riparian own
ers on non-navigable lake are en-
titled only to such waters from tn.
lake as they can use beneficently fol
irrigation and domestic purposes ant
that any surplus waters are subject tt
appropriation for irrigation Of non
riparian lands, the supreme court af
firmed the Okanogan court in an ac
ton brought by Harry H. Proctor ant
wife against w. F. Sim and others
involving the waters of Duck lake.
Construction of the new highway tt
be built between Mcintosh and Rain
Ter, in Thurston county, has been start
ed. A camp is established near McIn
tosh, and the work is to be completed
by October 1. The new contract pro
yides for new standard highway
1t will eliminate three dangerous rail
road crossings, one of which, just
south of Mcintosh hos haep q dao+l