Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-10-08
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

TtCuptTdle slightly uurlNR IHe week
ending September 23, the total of
funds in the treasury increased about
S5S5000 raising the total balance to
S13,652,449.S7 during that period. ac-
cording to the weekly report Of State
Treasurer Potts.
Marriage licenses issued at Vancou.
yer during the last four months have
shown a gain over the same months
last year. The total for September
was 256 compared with 233 in 1925.
The total up to October l this year
was 1888 compared with 2O33 for the
same period in 1925
The Great Northern railway filed
notice with the department OF public
works of its intention to cease opera
tion October 10 Of gas-driven car serv-
ice between Burlington and Anacortes.
The company proposes to substitute
in place of the two round trips daily
now provided mixed train service
operated once daily.
Edward ]. Devlin, one OF five men
who robbed two Brewster cigar store
collectors on Seattle street April l,
was convicted of first degree murder
for the death of Harry Ray Richards,
one OF the quintet. He received the
same penalty as William Mcmahon,
one OF the five who was previously
found guilty, life Imprisonment.
Sale OF 5,404,O00 feet OF Douglas fir,
cedar and hemlock timber in the
Rainier national forest was announced
by Fred L. Ames, acting district for
ester and assistant district forester in
charge of forest management. The
timber Is on land along the west fork
of the Tilton river. The buyer is the
Elbe Lumber G Shingle company of
Tacoma.
The state capitol commission award
ed contracts aggregating s514,500 for
furniture and fittings for the new cap
itol building at Olympia. The awards
were made over the protest of Cover
nor Roland II. Hartley, who opposed
the method of letting the contracts
and urged that the bids all be rejected
and that new bids be called on q com.
Detitiye nrice basis
Another contract for work on the
Ocean Beach highway leading from
Longview TO the sea on the Washing
ton side OF the Columbia river. was
awarded by the state highway com
mission. The contract ia for grading
2.7 miles of road between Walllcut
and Chinook river in Pacific county.
and was awarded John Scott OF AS.
toria on his bid of s51,492.
Petitions sponsored by the Clark
County Free Bridge club, asking the
county commissioners to place on the
ballot for the general election Novem.
ber 2 a proposal to sell Clark county's
share of the Interstate bridge to the
state of Washington for s2O0 900. the
state to take over operation and main.
tenance charges; transfer to be made
when tolls are removed through Joint
action with Multnomah county, are
being circulated and signed freely.
Logged-off lands of CowIitz county
were tried as grazing grounds for
large herds OF sheep this summer and
were found satisfactory, Thirty.six
hundred sheep owned by the McMinan
& Ward Sheep company OF Sixprong.
In klickitat county. grazed over an
area of 5000 or 5000 acres in the hills
west OF Olequa from May 22 until the
recent rains occurred, when the sheep
were driven to farm and pasture lands
near Olequa where they are still graz
ing.
County auditors and assessors were
notified by c. w Clausen. state audi.
tor, that he had been restrained from
certifying the 1925 state tax levy to
the respective counties until the
supreme court has passed upon the
validity OF the use of 1921 millages
for institutions of higher education
instead of those millages contained in
the 1926 law. The court action viii
cause delay beyond the regular time
for certifying the state levy to the
counties. as well as the time for fix.
ing county leyies. Auditor Clausen
said.
II. @. Werner Of Long Beach, Cal,
was killed and his daughter Miss Ella
b. Werner OF St Paul was injured
fatally when a Great Northern train
hit the automobile in which they were
riding at Stanwood.
Election of Rev. Philip E. Bauer,
formerly chaplain in the Oregon peni-
tentiary, to be superintendent Of the
Washington division Of the Pacific
Protective society. was announced.
The society maintains an orphans in
stitution at Seattle, and finds homes