Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-29


school money for the May school ap,
portionmont is announced by state
Superintendent Preston. King county
draws down s75,4O9, Spokane $SO,Gi5
and Pierce county $S0,S99,
Searohers have found the, bodies OF
]. A. Schaif and Harold Loughary in
the Pilchul1 river in Snohomish coun.
ty. The pair left Seattle May 13 on
a fishing trip. More than so persons
hunted the missing men.
After robbing the operator and q
passenger of one-man car in Seattle
few nights ago, a bandid forced the
trainmen to carry him two miles, dur,
ing which time second passenger
was picked up and robbed.
The Stevenson Chamber OF Com
merce has filed formal protest
against construction OF dam by Port.
land power interests at the mouth of
the Toutle river. The dam would raise
the level of Spirit lake 13 feet.
A merger plan Whereby the religious
education work OF various denomina-
tions in the inland empire would be
united with that of the Inland Empire
Sunday School association was adopt
ed at convention of the association
at Spokane.
Gilbert Knutson, a Gilmer district
rancher, drove his automobile truck
into a cloud OF China pheasants,
which were so numerous that they
blocked the road, causing Knutson to
drive headon into a tree, severely
damaging his truck,
On his plea of guilty of embezzl.ng
$500 of the funds of the Snohomish
aerie of Eagles, of which he was sec,
retary, Herbert HaIterman was given
maximum sentence of Is years in
the penitentiary. His books show q
total shortage of $4,000
The reappointment of Hon. w. A.
Ritz Of Walla Walla and Arthur w.
Davis of Spokane as regents of Wash.
ington State college at Pullman upon
the expiration OF their terms OF office
was announced by Governor Hartley.
Their terms will expire in 1881.
Roscoe Fullerton, Thurston county
prosecuting attorney, has announced
that no legal action would be taken
by his Office relative to the alleged
connection of Ex-Governor Hart with
the reported attempt at fee splitting
in the Scandinavian-Amer bank OF
Tacoma liquidation.
Determined opposition to the con,
struction of S1O0,0OO,0OO hydro-elec.
tric project dam on the Columbia river
at Priest rapids, unless further steps
were taken to safeguard the Colum.
bia river salmon fishing industry, was
voiced by Oregon representatives on
Joint fishery commission which met
at Seattle.
The positions OF district superin.
tendents of the Spokane and Walla
Walla districts of the Free Methodist
church were discontinued by action
of the annual conference of the de.
nomination for the inland empire at
Spokane and Rev. j. K. Muma of Her
miston, Or, was chosen travelling dis.
trict superintendent to have supervi.
sion of both districts.
Decision to arrange a joint conven.
ton with the retail jewelers. of Ore.
gon next year at Longview, if possible,
was reached by the Washington State
Retail jewelers. association in the
closing session OF their annual con.
vention at Tacoma II the joint con.
vention cannot be arranged, the Wash.
ington association will meet in Seattle
in 1926.
Falling trees killed two Cowlitz
county loggers. C. G. Putnam, 80, suf.
fered crushed skull when he was
struck By a falling tree at the Ostrand.
cI Railway d Timber company camp,
and Ardell Musgrove, 40, was struck
by a falling tree which toppled upon
him from the slopes of a canyon
at the Long-Bell company camp at
Ryderwood.
Lower freight rates on apples from
the Hood River and Wenatchee val.
leys under the provisions of the Hoch
Smith resolution were asked of the
interstate commerce commission by
the Wenatchee Valley Traffic asso.
citation, the Yakima Valley Traffic and
Credit association, the Hood River
Traffic association and the Inland En-,
pire Cooperative Federation of Walla
Walla.
Mike koski was released from Gus
tody at Chehalis by Sheriff Roberts OF
Instructions OF County Attorney Apel
and will not be prosecuted for shoot.
ing Matt Marsyla a neighbor, Marsyla
died the day following the shooting
Abel's action followed unanimous