Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-02
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

iSHeS ileHt LOT lne Towns OF taSCdNeS,
Skamania and Stevenson, and Cascade
Locks, Oregon, has had great diff,
Guilty to keep the flume from freezing
at the intake near Dry Creek falls
With the revised figures compiled
by Carl G.. Caddey, city controller, the
Tacoma municipal street car line
showed loss of slS4.56 during
November, instead of a balance for
the city of $2727 as was recorded in
tentative figures published some time
ago.
With total cut of 6,65GoOO.0O0
feet of lumber, Washington state led
by a wide margin every other state,
and contributed is per cent OF the ma
tion's lumber cut for 1923, according
to statistics compiled by the bureau
of census and announced by the dis
trict forestry office.
Alleging that the daily train sery-
Ice furnished by the Oregon Washing
ton Railroad & Navigation company
between Centralia and Tono was being
operated at considerable loss. the rail
road company applied to the depart
ment of public works for permission to
! discontinue the service.
Because King county superior
court Judge told the jury that it was
easier to prove an alibi than to dis
prove one, o. NJ. Thompson, sentenced
to three to Is years in the state peni
Tertiary on charge of stealing his
own liquor from the lssaquah city jail
will have n new trial. the supreme
court has decided
Wallace R. Schrader, arrested at
Binghamton, N. Y, several weeks ago
and wanted in Snohomish county for
sentence on murder charge. has been
returned to Everett, after being at
large 10 years. Schrader was found
guilty of second degree murder in
connection with the shooting OF his
wife in September, 1913.
In order that they could return
home in time for Christmas, five con
victs, who had been granted paroles
upon expiration of their minimum
sentences, which would have been on
Christmas day for three OF them and
December % for the other two. We're
released from the penitentiary at
Walla Walla on December %
Prune growers of the Blalock dis
trict have revived the Blalock Cooper
ative Prune Growers association to
handle the next years crop. They
elected C. F. Moore chairman and D.
R. Nichols secretary. The growers
went on record against the proposal
to deduct 81 per ton from the pranes
grown to finance a pruEe drier.
All mills and industrial plants at
Everett not already not already clos
ed down over the holidays were fore
ed to suspend operations Friday noon
because of lack of water. The pipe
line from Sultan basin froze to a depth
of five inches inside and the volume
of water was SO reduced that all OF it
was needed for domestic purposes.
William Pigott, capitalist and manu-
facturer; P. A. Heney, broker, and
Judge Donworth of Seattle will be hon
ored with decorations from the king
of Italy, it was announced by Alberta
Alfani, acting royal Italian consul The
royal recognition was the result OF
services, aid and counsel given Italian
residents in the Seattle section. Alfani
said.
With much ice running in the Co
lumbia river, preventing the river
boats from operating from the Wash
ington to the Oregon side, many OF the
communities OF the lower Columbia
river, particularly Cathlamet, Skamo-
kawa and other Wahkiakum county
places and Stella and Oak Point in
western Cowlitz county were almost
or entirely inaccessible last week
The December apportionment OF the
current school fund amounts TO ST.
o71,95O.13, according to figures com
piled under the direction of Josephine
Corliss Preston, state superintendent
of public instruction. OF the Decem-
ber disbursement, King county receiv-
ed the largest amount, s26S, 1880, and
Skamania the smallest. S2214.59. The
apportionment is regulated by the
number of school census children in
each county.
Aiding farmers in the drought strick.
en- sections OF eastern Washington by
advancing money for the purchase OF
seed wheat under the provisions Of lie
bill passed by the legislature in 1923
caused a gross outlay Of SS5,095.30. az.
cording to figures made public By Fred
w. Agate, assistant director OF the de-
partment OF conservation and develop.