Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-29

After hearing testimony on the pro.
posal of the Spokane United Railways
company, operating street cars in the
city of Spokane, to raise it's cash fares
from 7 to 10 cents on February l, Of
ficials OF the department of public
works took the matter under advise
ment. with the announcement that an
order will be issued later.
Four defendants, including Robert
T.. Baerman. one Of two policemen
named in a liquor conspiracy cass :;
which Roy Olmsted Seattle ex.police
lieutenant, and 50 others were indict-
ed, were freed on motion of the gov.
ernment when trial opened in fedcral
court at Seattle. Three others failed
to appear and forfeited bond and Al
went ON trial. Eight have pleaded
guilty.
Announcement of the January ap-
portionment of the state school funds
shows total OF $4l3,S37SS. Named
in the order OF the size of the appor-
tionment the ten chief counties are:
King, $SS,691.15; Spokane, s37,66O.3S;
Pierce, S36006.51; Snohomish, $21,-
1915; Whatcom, s16,51662; Lewis
$16,126,06; Whitman, s15,14s,s6; Grays
Harbor, s13,1O664; Yakima, $2O,93S.7S,
and Clarke, s10,62O56.
State funds will not be available to
purchase bonds OF reclamation dis.
trcts during the coming year, under
an Interpretation of the word Opera
TONS although the legislature set
aside $250,000 for operations for the
reclamation division of the department
of conservation for the fiscal year be-
ginning April 1, 1926, according to an
opinion submitted by the attorney.gen-
eral to c. w. Clausen, state auditor
Bids ranging from Sl53,50O to $685.
O00 for the widening. grading and sur
facing Of 12 miles Of highway between
the west entrance to Rainier national
park and Snsqually bridge were open.
ed and taken under consideration by
c. H. Purcell, district engineer of the
federal bureau of roads. Mr.. Purcell
Will forward his recommendation to
the department of agriculture, where
the formal award of the contract will
be made.
Announcement of a s1,540,OO0 water
power project in the Willapa district,
which, when completed early in 1929,
will generate 10000 horsepower, was
made at Olympia with the filing Of
water and reservoir applications by.
]. R. Snider of the Willapa Electric
company. The storage in the reservoir
Of 272,000 acre feet of water will mean
the submerging to depth of about
60 feet of 5400 acres situated near
Canto, eight miles northwest of the
city of Raymond. This venture will
require a dam 1876 feet high with
length along the top of 700 feet, and
15O.foot bottom measurement.
A bill, introduced at the last legis.
lature by State Senator Barnes of Cow.
litz county and signed recently by Gov
ernor Hartley, gives property owners
within diking and drainage districts
one vote for every ten acres of their
holdings. This bill may affect the
status OF the Vancouver-Shillapoo
lakes project in Clarke county. Ell
forts to drain Shillapoo lake ana con
struct dilses which would hold Van
aouver lake at low water level the year
around have been blocked for five
years by determined opposition, al
most equal to proponents of the pro-
ject.
A joint resolution adopted by the
state legislature at the recent session
instructs the state highway commits
sion, acting in conjunction with the
state highway engineer to ascertain
the following facts in regard to four
toll bridges in the state, including the
interstate bridge at Vancouver. with
the end in view OF making them free:
Date of construction, cost, probable
life, present value, replacement value,
cost Of maintenance. rate OF tolls, vol.
une Of travel and probable future
volume, and the probable sum neces-
sary to be paid by the state for the
purchase Of said bridges from the sew.
eral owners. Other bridges are the
Metaline falls bridge on the Pend
dOreille highway, Kennewicl.Pasco
bridge across the Columbia, and the
Pasco.Burbank bridge across the
Snake river,
Senator Jones and Representative
Summers have introduced in senate
and house Identical bills authorizing
the secretary of the interior to cooper.
nte with Idaho, Montana, Oregon and
| Washington in allocating waters of
the Columbia river and for working
out other preliminaries that must be
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