Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-25
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

county Of the Sherman County Light
4 Power company were sold by the
sheriff. The assets were few poles
and wires from Chehals to Centralin
and In Chehalis, and contract to sup
ply with lights,
Contracts for the production Of Is
feature pictures to cost in excess OF
$1.3O0,0O0 have been obtained for pro.
duction at Tacoma, It was announced
by H. G. Weaver. head of a produc.
ton company. Mr.. Weaver returned
from New York, where he signed the
contracts with the Vital Pictures cor.
poration and the Associated Exhibi.
tors.
To join in the formal dedication Of
the new 100000 Odd Fellows temple
at Tacoma, prominent Odd Fellows
from the east and middle west stop.
ped off en- route to the session of the
sovereign grand lodge at Portland, Or,
September 81. The new temple has
an auditorium seating about 1900 per.
sons and will be state headquarters
for the lodge.
q. N. Larry of Longview has been
named engineer Of the port Of Kelso
and will draft plans and specifications
for the development of public port ia.
cilities at the foot of Oregon Way on
the 40.acre site taken over by the port
commission. One open.face dock with
a warehouse and railway tracks will
be built Work is expected to com.
mence In about As days.
After narrowly escaping destruction
Of their plane while crossing the Cas-.
cade mountains In Washington, Lieu.
tenant George P. Tourtelot, test pilot
in the engineering division of the air
service, and Bradley Jones, technical
expert at McCook field, arrived in Sc.
attic on test flight from Dayton, O.
Tourtelot made the flight to test a
new type Of pursuit plane.
Mike Segura, one of 35 Gle Elum
residents arrested recently in liquor
raids there. was indicted by the feder.
al grand jury at Spokane on a charge
of perjury. He testified he was not
present when an alleged liquor sale
was made, but was fishing. Chris
Radusinovich. who supported Segura's
testimony In his trial on the liquor
charge, also was indicted on perjury
charge.
Opportunity to voice further pro-.
test against the increased telephone
rates in Tacoma Seattle and Spokane,
which went into effect last year and
which have been declared fair and
reasonable by John T. Condor Of Sc
attic, special master Of chancery, will
be afforded the state department of
public works when the recommenda.
tions Of Condor are considered by a
special court.
Decreases In volume of production
as we'll as In sales and shipments for
the week ending September 12 com.
pared with the preceding week were
reported by Pacific northwest mills OF
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa.
ton. The association announced that
for the week ending last Saturday los
mills Of the organization manufactured
93.065,97e feet Of lumber, sold S1,044,.
567 feet and shipped s6,750,345 feet.
George w. Taylor, Castle Rock rep.
resentative of the Cowlitz Lumber
company which owns several thousand
acres OF timber in the area annexed
by the Kelso port district, has stated
that legal action will be instituted to
contest the annexation on the groends
that there were Irregularities in the
description Of the territory and that
the law under which the annexation
election was held provides that voters
within the district and those within
the territory proposed to be annexed
vote as unit. is unconstitutional.
Most Of the machinery of the Amer.
lean Pacific Whaling company's plant
on Grays Harbor has been dismantled
and is being shipped to Alaska for use
at Kodiak and Akutan stations. Two
Of three whalers, formerly plying off
the Washington and Oregon coast, are
already In northern waters, and the
third is tied up at Bellevue, Wash,
The Grays Harbor station was aban.
doned in May. after 1t was found that
shifting ocean currents had removed
feeding grounds so for that the boat,
could not bring in whales at profit
Alton j. Hager Of Lansing, Mich,
was elected shark Of the Universe In
the final session at Spokane of the
annual convention of the Concatenat
ed Order Of Hoo Hoo. Other officers
elected were: Harry Kendall, Houston
Texas. senior Hoo Hoo; Rodman Hen
Erickson, San Francisco, junior Hoe
Hoo; B. f. Howe, Boston, Mass, bo
jun; Theodore Sparks, Winnipeg
| scriyenator. j, A. EdgecOmbe, Van