Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-04
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

! Purchase of tho water system OF the
Falrhavcn City Water & Power COM
pnny for s1G5,0O0 Ia favored by the
, Bellingham city council.
It was announced at Seattle that
petitions were being circulated
throughout the state to initiate a
measure to tax church property.
Peter Goddard Gates, who died re.
Gently in New York city, left an es'
tate of $651 900, according to records
filed In tho probate court at Belling'
ham.
The Decatur estate at Mount Vernon
has let contract for new $12b,000
theatre in that city which will be
operated by Il. A. Halberg Of Port
Angeles.
Walla Walla dealers estimate that
between 20 and 25 per cent Of the
wheat has been sold to date. Much of
the wheat has brought around $1.45
and s1.50.
Washington state will have large
exhibit at the Territorial fair at Homo.
lulu. r. G. Mcdonald OF the Seattle
office Of Alexander 4 Baldwin will
have charge Of it.
Four United States army officers
narrowly missed serious injury and
possible death when two observation
planes collided as they were taking
Off at Camp Lewis.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
has awarded contracts to clear 46
acres of land for its mill site on the
Columbia river about a mile below the
Kelso port district site.
John Kron, "A, a faller at camp Q OF
the Schaefer Brothers Logging com.
pany, near Aberdeen, was killed when
limb from tree he was Telling
crashed down upon him.
Attendance of more than 10000
persons in Mount Rainier national
park this season is reported. This is
an increase of $4,000 over the cor.
responding period in 1924.
General resumption of operations in
lumber camps that have been idle be.
cause of forest fires is reported in
Washington. All camps will be oper.
ating before September s.
Amanda Frances Gooding. l6, of
Gooding, Idaho, granddaughter of Sen.
ator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho. died
at Spokane shortly after being strick-
en- with sleeping sickness.
Mrs. Elmer White of Seattle, mem.
ber of an automobile party en- route to
Vancouver, B. c., was killed when she
fell from the open door of the auto
mobile few miles north Of Stanwood.
A government dredge is expected to
start work within ten days on the
Columbia river channel from Vancou.
yer to the mouth Of the Willamette.
The channel will be cut 300 feet wide
to depth of 25 feet.
Bishop w. O. Shepard, Portland.
was elected presiding bishop and presi.
dent at the 31st annual convention
at Aberdeen of the western Norwe-
gian-Danish conference of the Metho.
dist Episcopal church.
A bridge at Lewisville over the east
/ fork of the Lewis river was condemn.
ed by the Clarke county commission.
ers and resolution declaring the need
of an emergency appropriation of
| $4,000 for moving a steel bridge at
| La 'enter to Lewisville was approved.
In the main Wenatchee valley from
Dryden down to Rock Island, there
will be a total loss of from 20 to 25
per cent on the 1925 apple crop from
worm damage, according to r. Edward
Trumble, consulting horticulturist.
German will be taught in public
schools in Seattle for the first time
since the war, when the schools are
reopened. Announcement that the
language would resume its place in
the school curriculum was made by
Frank B. Cooper, superintendent.
| Four thousand quarts of bottled beer
were thrown out Of window of an
apartment house in Seattle and smash
ed on the ground below when prohi
bition officers raided five.room suite
and found one Of the largest home
breweries ever uncovered In the city
Because there is no regular river
| traffic on the east and north fork ol
the Lewis river, near Woodland, the
war department proposes to abandon
improvement of this stream. Writer
arguments of directors will be receiv
cd up to September 20, 1t is announc
ed.
With the declaration he Is the old
est practicing physician in the United
States. DR.. John G. Byrne of Seattle
challenges the same claim made re