Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-29
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

Following resignation Of G. q.
HaInes as mayor Of Grandvew, j. N.
Gilkey has been elected by the Grand
view council as his successor.
Dredging In front of the Kelso port
district dock site at the foot Of Ore
gon Wny cost the district only $S414,
less than half OF the estimate of ST..
900.
Spokane's population Is estimated
at 130,075 by the committee Of the In
dustrial bureau appointed recently to
check up on the government estimate
of 1OS,379.
Portland will cooperate with Yaki-
ma in asking federal appropriation of
$750,00 for construction of the Mount
Adams highway from White Swan to
Glenwood
The first annual banquet Of farm
ers and business men, under auspices
OF the Columbia county farm bureau
was held in Dayton with more than
200 present.
Three crews Of Washington Water
Power engineers are making surveys
for an SO.mile 110,O00.volt power line
to be built from Rockford into the
Occur d'Alene mining district.
Bank deposits in Lincoln county
were S464,902 less December 81, 1925,
than September 30, 1925, according to
returns of the 13 banks Deposits
were $3,959767 on December 81.
Charles T. White, water commissions
| sr at Wenatchee under the council.
manic form of city government was
found guilty of grand larceny and mis-
appropriation of city funds by jury.
More than 20 of the strawberry
growers Of the Lewis river valley en-
tered into contract Saturday with
the Allen & Hendrickson cannery at
Rainier, Or, to sell their crop at Sc
a pound.
An Indictment charging misconduct
in office against King County Auditor
D. g. Ferguson was dismissed at Se-
attle by Superior Judge Ronald at Sc
attic on motion of Deputy Prosecutor
Burgunder.
Arthur S. Jensen, with White Leg
horn, and W. c. Baldwin, with White
Wyandotte, took the champion male
| award and the champion female award
at the Walla Walla Poultry Breeders
association show.
Governor Hartley has granted an ex-
ecutive penitentiary parole to Ray
Zbinden of Seattle, convicted in the
King county superior court on a charge
! of fraudulent transactions in connec-
tion with automobile sales contracts.
Assistant Secretary of War Hanford
McNider reports that the citizens
military training camp scheduled to
open on June IS at Vancouver bar
racks will be the largest of several tc
begin in the 9th corps area on that
| date.
Stockholders of the Washington
Growers Packing corporation held
their annual meeting in Vancouver.
The report of w. H. Wood, manager,
showed that the association in 1924
handled 6,S17,65S pounds of dried
prunes, which were sold for S515,2S1
gross.
Frank Williams of Ogden, Utah,
was elected president of the Western
Confectioners' association at the 11th
annual convention of the organization
in Seattle. S. G. Hookstratten of Los
Angeles was named first vice-presi-
dent; second vice-president, j. w. Bal
cry OF Seattle; secretary-treasurer A.
S. Tong of San Francisco; manager,
f, G. Taylor of Ogden.
BY vetoing II measures in full.
scratching an Objectionable section out
of 18th and signing A bills. Cover
nor Hartley cleared his desk of the
last of the measures sent to him fol-
lowing the close of the special ses.
sion on January Z.
Walter s. Barnett. Ga, prominent
Walla Walla farmer, was killed in
stantly about four miles west of Walla
Walla on the state highway when the
automobile in which he was riding
alone slSidded in soft Girt alongside the
pavement and went into the ditch.
A certificate authorizing the Yakima
Transit company so operate passenger
and express stages between Yakima
and Portland in interstate traffic was
4 ISSUED by the department of public
works. The stages will be operated
by way of the Roosevelt-Arlington
ferry over the Columbia river.
Impeachment of Commissioner OF
Public Safety John l.. Murray was
demanded at Tacoma with the filing of
/ two affiduyits with the city council