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


tions for Charles w. Hedger, commits.
sioner OF public safety. The action
followed federal raids In which some
80 alleged liquor law volators were
taken into custody on warrants found.
ed on evidence gathered by investiga,
tors for the board Of trade.
After series of negotiations and
efforts toward Improvement of the
present municipal light and power
system, the Oakvple town council vot.
ed to abandon the present plant, and
entered Into a tentative agreement
with T. b. Donaldson, of Elma to take
over the present distribution system
and furnish the city with light and
power until such time as the transfer
can be made legal by vote Of the peo
pie.
In calling attention to the fact that
but $4,000, or approximately one.
eighth Of the number OF 1926 auto.
mobile licenses required, had yet been
applied for Director Maybury OF the
state department of licenses urged the
motoring public at large to obtain
licenses to avoid arrest. January Is
the date set for the new plates to be in
evidence on the highways, and those
with cars not so equipped after that
time are liable to be fined.
Official figures made public by
Charles R. Maybury, state director of
licenses, showed that the state of
Washington received $4,9SO,O26 this
year from licenses on all classes OF
automobiles, numbering S41,22S. or
this amount 279.23S private cars
brought the state $3,64O,234.35. Fees
collected on other automobiles includ.
ed: 5000 trucks, S1,O73,74405; 1888
forhire cars, s79,O92.55; 5S1 stages,
s55,051.2O, and 1879 motorcycles, S15,.
Ala.
Efforts will be made at once to Sc.
cure rights of way and to complete all
advance engineering work in order
that the United States reclamation
service may advertise for bids for con.
struction of the 70,OO0-acre Kittitas
irrigation project near Ellensburg,
This preliminary work is expected to
take nearly two months and 1t is pre-.
sumed construction work early next
spring will be on the upper portion
of the main caral, probably the sec
tion between Easton and Peoh Point
Work on laterals is to be commenced
when an additional s2,O0O,0OO appro.
priation is expected to be available
after next July 1.
Governor Hartley vetoed six bills
Thursday, including measure in.
creasing the millagas for the Univer.
sity OF Washington, Washington State
college and the three state normal
schools, and the supplemental bill ap.
propriating approximately S1,3OO,OOO
cut of the general fund for the opera.
tion OF the schools. The other bills
disapproved were: SerSte bill "a, es.
tablishing a law library fund in coun.
ties of the second and third classes;
senate bill N, authorizing cities of the
first class to build auditoriums and
museums; house bill 16, relating to
the compensation of injured workmen
| and their dependents, and house bill
81, changing the color of the fringe of
the state flag.
Said by court attendants to be the
first case of its kind, the question of
the right Of state peace officers and
county judges to refuse bail to a per.
son charged with capital crime, with
out having shown conclusively that
there is undeniable evidence or great
presumption of guilt, was brought UP
before the state supreme court with
the result that an alternative writ of
mandate was issued ordering George
B. Simpson, Judge at Vancouver,
Clarke county, to appear before the
state tribunal January Is to show
cause why bail in such case had
not been fixed. The question, which
may require virtual trial of the case
in the matter of bail, hinges around
Roy Bolen, imprisoned at Vancouver
awaiting trial on charge of murder.
ing Walter w Flemming on July 20
last. Bolen, accused of decapitating
his victim, applied for bail December
15.
Two bills, one calling for $4,000
waterworks system at Taholah in the
Quinault reservation and the other
for $4,000 to complete the Taholah-
Moclips highway, have been introduc.
ed in congress by Congressman Albert
Johnson of Hoquiam
The Washington Irrigation G. De.
velopment company, which has spent
S6,000,000 toward construction of q
s100,00O,OOO hydro-olectric and irriga.
tion enterprise on the Columbia river
at Priest RaDids nlans n commnn.uaar