Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-06

The CowlitZ county sheriff's office
made 494 arrests, collected Sl2,550 in
fines that went into the county liquor
fund, seized 80 stills and destroyed a
large quantity of liquor in 1924, ac
cording to the report of Sheriff Stude-
baker.
An extensive building program in
Ellensburg, believed to be the direct
result of announced construction OF
the Kittitas High Line canal, will
commence with the erection of $16,.
900 modern building for the Kittitas
Electric Laundry.
One hundred and seventeen mills
reporting to the West Coast Lumber
mems association for the week end
ing January "a Manufactured 1O2,517,-
163 feet of lumber; sold 91,196,654 feet
and shipped 1O4,O62,792 feet. New bust,
ness was IL per cent below production
Shipments were IA per cent above new
business.
Wayne B. Garrett, Walla Walla
county horticultural inspector, has
completed an investigation of condi-
tions and reported that normal crops
of prunes and cherries are expected.
Apples also escaped damage. Reports
as to peaches were unfavorable, but
there was chance that there would
be some apricots.
Completion of the new steel bridge
over Chuckanut creek canyon is an.
nounced by John Hickok. superintend-
ent of the Pacific Northwest Traction
company, which operates an interur-
ban electric line from Bellingham to
Mount Vernon. The bridge is of plate
grider construction, is $40 feet long
and 1913 feet high, and cost SS5,O0O.
Application to congress for permit
to build toll bridge across the Colum-
bia river from Longview to Rainier,
Or, will be made by Wesley Wander
cook of Longview, and w. D. Conner
of Seattle, through Representative
johnson of Hoquiam, preparatory to
the organization of proposed com.
pany to finance, build and operate such
a bridge.
Verne Smith, 13, living on the Low
er Monitor road, near Wenatchee, was
obliged to battle for his life against
a huge lynx when returning home from
school, it is reported. The lad had a
.22-caliber rifle and wounded the ami
NAL. The lynx then leaped at the boy
but with the aid of his dog, he kept
the animal off until rancher ar
rived with shotgun.
A bill to make the western boun-
carries of Clallam, Jefferson, Grays
Harbor and Pacific counties identical
with the western boundary of the state
was introduced in the senate by Fred
Norman of Pacific county. The county
lines run along the shore of Washing
ton while the state line is three miles
out, Mr.. Norman pointed out. Some
judges have held no county court
has jurisdiction over offenses commit.
ted between the two lines.
That the required proportion of total
wheat crop of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho was represented by signers to
the agreement and that the work of
organization had been carried on in
such manner as TO make the associat
ing and marketing agreements Of the
Washington Wheat Growers associa
tion valid and binding upon the grow.
ers signing such agreement was the
decision of the supreme court in af
firming judgment of the Whitman
county court.
Articles Of Incorporation of the
Washington Oregon Linen Mills were
filed with the Clarke county auditor
by A. G. Raich, representing eastern
capitalists headed by J. Sidney Starl
ing of North Tonawanda, N. Y. The
company has obtained 3O.year lease
on IA acres of the steel shipyard at
Vancouver, including part of the old
plat shop, and announced that so car.
loads Of machinery were ready to
ship and should be here or on the
way by April 1.
A radio set in the home at Seattle
of Roy Olmstead, ex.poiicc lieutenant,
valued by Olmstead at $4,000, is
worth only $4,000, Roy G. Lyle, pro
hibition director Of this state, said in
an affidavit filed in superior court
denying that he planned to smash II
up. Olmstead and his wife were ar
rested January 20 on an indictment
returned by grand jury charging SO
persons with liquor conspiracy. Bed
time stories broadcasted over the
radio by Mrs. Olmstend, called Aunt
Vivian, were said by the prohibition
authorities to have been code mes
saGpa IN cOnfpdpratep of an alleged