Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-26
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF news ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
Of Our Readers.

Farmers and fruit growers Of CLARK
county have started spring activities
H. Jacobsen. logger. WAS stabbed
in the abdomen By an unknown assail
ant ut Aberdeen.
A total Of s7s2o.7s was received IN
1925 from tho sale Of hunting and fish
Ing licenses Up Clark county.
The senate passed q bill authori4ips
construction Of bridge across tbs
Columbia river. two miles below Brew
ster.
Due to prompt action on the part q
the health authorities, q threatened
Smsllpox epidemic at South Bend was
averted.
w. H. Harrison was killed BY q
dynamite explosion while he was blow
ing stumps on his farm op tho Cowae
man river east Of Kelso.
Washington state has sent Elmer q
Todd, Seattle lawyer. to Washington
d. c.. to argue asainst separate income
tax returns for husband and wife.
The body Of q man identified By q
bank book In his pocket as Victor
Johnson, aged as, of Seattle. was taken
from the Spokane river at Spokane.
Orders for pyrotol powder are being
placed with @. g. lett, county agent
of Wahkiakum county. and the first
shipment will be received about March
28.
The Southwest Warrington Farm
Loan league, including Lewis, Pacific,
Thurston, Grays Harbor and Mason
counties held two-day session at
ChehaliS.
Articles Incorporating the first State
Bank of Washtucna, Adams county.
with capital stock Of $4,000, were filed
with Secretary Of State Hinkie at
Olympia.
Resolutions demanding tariff protec-
ton against single exports from Can
ada have been sent to Senators Dill
and Jones By single manufacturers
Of Grays harbor.
The ostrander Railway & Timber
company at Ostrander will resume it,
sawmill and logging operations March
l, after having been shut down sincs
before Christmas.
The state attorney-general's office
has approved transcript for purchase
by the state Of 100000 worth Of bonds
for the construction Of new Benton
county courthouse.
Organization of . telephone com.
pany for Puget island in the Columbia
river has been practically completed.
SO residents on the island having sign.
ed as subscribers to the system.
E. J. Campbell and Professor B. A.
Slocum of the extension department
of Washington State college held .
school for beekeepers In the grange
hall at Battle Ground. Wednesday.
James H. Woods. manager Of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance com.
pany office In Tacoma, has refused an
offer to become secretary to Governor
Hartley, succeeding A. R. Gardner.
The Aberdeen city council accepted
. bid from the Observation-Disclosures
company for new chemical fire on.
CINE to be added to the city's fire
fighting apparatus. The engine is to
cost s12.soo. >
D. ". Benden Of Lynden was elect.
ed president and sedro- Woolley chosen
as the 1927 convention city BY mem.
bers Of Farm Loan associations Of the
Puget sound district at their third an.
nual convention at Everett.
Edward Jarrtsh, a deputy game war
den. was murdered near Camden. Of.
ficials declared after an investigation.
His body was found face down In the
snow. He was killed by high power.
ed rifle bullet, the wound indicated.
With half hundred cases quaran-
tined in separate dormitory quarters.
the humps epidemic among Whitman
college students at Walla Walla has
caused cancellation Of all dances and
other social functions, but school work
is continuing as usual.
The board of trustees Of the College
Of Puget Sound, Tacoma, In semi-an.
nual session adopted resolution set
ting S5,000.0o0 as the financial goal
OF the college In the next 10 years.