Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-24
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

VI ~ NoNtiCu iuVO utlSot lhC loI
service reported.
A step toward Kidding the farm
lands of Grays Harbor county OF Can.
adian thistles was taken when the
county board Of equalization decided
to put nominal assessed valuation
on lands being summer fallowed to
eradicate thistles.
Cowlitz county sportsmen are up in
arms as result of reports that wo.
men and children picnickers on
streams of the county have been max
ing practice of seining out trout fry,
planted this spring, with improvised
seins Of mosquito netting.
Removal OF Governor Roland II.
Hartley from office at the earliest
possible moment, as urged in a COM
mittee recommendation, was unani.
mously adopted by the Washington
| State Federation of Labor at the oath
annual convention at Aberdeen.
The body of Donald Park, is, one
Of the trio who escaped from Monroe
reformatory July 6, was found in the
Snohomish river. Identification was
made by prison officials. Park was
drowned attempting to swim the river
with two other prisoners who were
later captured.
John H. Mcintosh, 46, for four years
manager of the Federated Industries
Of Washington, committed suicide by
leaping from the window of his office
on the ninth floor of the American
bank building in Seattle. His death
was the result of i'll health and ner-
vous breakdown.
+. Forest fire fighting apparatus and
three road crews were rushed by the
| United States forest service from Van
couver to the upper Wind River can
yon, where forest fire, the largest re-
| ported this season, was reported
sweeping 1000 acres of timber in the
Columbia national forest.
Police and federal officials claim
that the arrest in Seattle of Benny
Goldsmith on federal Indictment re.
turned in Portland in connection with
an alleged rum smuggling conspiracy
of huge proportions, the suspected
| brains" of the notorious Olmstead
liquor conspiracy cases had been ap.
| pretended.
]. P. Kane, Walla Walla county
health officer, received permission
from DR.. Frederick D. Strickler, Sec
retary of the Oregon board of health,
to placard springs just across the
state line in Oregon, water from which
was found to be contaminated. All un-
safe springs in the county are to be
marked as fast as possible.
Following unanimous Endorsement
Of resolution calling for an active
fight against senate bill No. A, which
would permit owners of timber areas
to turn them over to the state as
game preserves, the Gath annual con-
vention of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor adjourned at Aber-
deem. Everett was selected as the
1926 convention city.
Driving of piling for the new steel
span to replace the old Graham bridge
over the Elochoman river in Wahkia-
kun county is under way by the Union
Bridge company Of Portland. The
new bridge will be rs feet long and
is feet wide. II is midway between
Cathlamet and Skamokawa, and the
only crossing over the river now is
by deep and swift ford.
A conference to determine the geo
graphical status of Sand island, in
| the lower Columbia river, was held
at Chinook, Pacific county, by repre-
sentatives of Washington and Oregon
as a result Of the recent controversy,
which grew out of the attempt on the
part of Oregon to require some 30
fishermen, operating from the island,
to take out Oregon licenses.
Holding that workman is not "con
tinuing in employment" while return
ing home from work over public
work and that compensation cannot
be collected for any mishap which
may befall him while so doing, the
supreme court reversed the King coun-
ty court in an action brought by Mrs.
Marie Brown to collect insurance for
the death of her husband who was
drowned while going home from his
work at the Washington Iron Works
plant in Seattle, in May, 1924.
Credit OF the Benton. Franklin Inter
county Bridge company will be ex-
tended to the hackers of the Bridge
of the Gods, between Cascade Locks.
Or, and Stevenson, Wash, if the
bridge board follows the recommenda
tions of the stockholders. The stock
holders, by vote of 25S9 shares for
and 613k shares against, approved