Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-27
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

Business men representing Grays
Iiarbor communities plan to make a
iaunt through southwest Washington
late this spring or early this summer.
The Grays Harbor Railway and
Light company has filed water rights
on the Wynoche river and plans hydro.
electric development to cost $1,250,-
900.
The sale Of 100000 bushels of Walla
Walla county wheat to interests in
Scotland at SLIGO bushel was an
nounced by the Cameron Yenney
Grain company.
From February 20, 1924, to February
II, 1925, 50 bankruptcy cases were
filed In the Big Bend wheat district,
all but six Of which were wheat grow
ers or fruit farmers.
Mrs. j. r. Stratton, wife of the
state representative from Pacific coun-
ty. was found dead in her bed at Ray
mond shortly after she had retired in
apparently good health.
Irwin Skeen of Clear Lake, 26 years
old, was instantly killed at logging
camp near Bellingham when truck
load of logs slipped and crushed him
against the steering wheel.
Mrs. Mahala Wingard, 81, who came
to Washington territory in 1864, died
at Yakima last week. Mrs. Wingard
crossed the plains with her parents,
who settled near Eugene Or, in 1851.
First highway contracts of the
1925-27 biennium will be awarded by
the state highway commission March
II, it is announced. Calls for bids on
Two paving jobs already have been is
sued.
Although credited with saving many
lives, radium caused the death at Spo-
kane of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Wheley,
40, who passed away at the Sacred
Heart hospital following a minor oper-
alton.
G. S. Hamilton post, Grand Army Of
the Republic, of Kelso, has ceased its
existence as a separate organization
because of the depletion of its ranks
through dead and the disabilities of
old age.
In the six years it has been under
city ownership Seattle's municipal
railway has paid off $3,332,000 of its
$15,000,00O bonded Indebtedness in ad-
dition to interest charges aggregating
$4,250,500.
The outlet to Moses lake has been
closed by means of sand dam. Wheat
sacks were filled with sand and piled
in the swift current. The temporary
dam replaces the one that went out
February z.
Three hundred thousand rainbow
| trout fry have been ordered by the
Cowlitz county game commission,
| which also has ordered 100000 cut
throat trout and other species of fish
for planting.
H. e. Byram, president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway,
heading party Of eastern financiers,
predicted at Seattle that the central
west and east would bring to the Pa
oific northwest this year the largest
tourist travel in history.
Edwin Berglund, 81, employed as
brakeman for the Mud Bay Logging
company, was killed instantly on the
company's logging road few miles
west of Olympia, when he lost his
balance while attempting to board the
train. falling beneath the wheels.
The Elma-Grand Mound cutoff, con-
Meeting the olympic and Pacific high
ways through Oakville, is now in ex-
cellent condition throughout its entire
length. This highway has been made
part Of the primary state road sys-
tenn and the state soon will take over
the maintenance.
The law passed by the last legis-
lature requiring that so percent OF
the vote polled in the last general
election must be cast in bond cleo
ton, may prevent the success of the
proposed issue of $4,000 TO build
first unit of a police and fire sta.
tion at Vancouver.
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One hundred and seventeen mill:
reporting to West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending Feb
ruary Ia, manufactured 95,60S,917 fee
of lumber, sold 92,7S6,339, and shipped
SS,646.111 feet. New business was
per cent below production. Shipment:
were per cent below new business
A proposal of union between the
various Lutheran church synods OF the
! United States, of which five are repre-
enntpd in fha inland nmnirp was dis