Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-12
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

Ralph II. Burnett. deputy Spokane
county auditor confessed that he had
taken $4,000 In automobile license re.
ceipts from the vault In the auditors 3
office December 80.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
received 500 tons OF 80.pound steel
rails aboard the steamers Wahkeena
and David II. Meyer for their logging
railway northeast Of Kelso.
The Northern Pacific railroad start.
cd suit against Clark county. Dudley
Eshelman, treasurer, TO recover
$3384SS alleged to have been paid In
excess taxes on the 1924 levy.
An epidemic OF intestinal influenza,
which had affected 25 per cent of the
student body, resulted In closing Con.
zaga university at Spokane. The stu
dent body numbers more than 900 men
and boys.
Bishop Huston. Of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese Of Olympia, announc.
ed in diocesan convention In Seattle
that a new church, being erected by
st. Marks parish In Seattle, will be
his cathedral.
The Northern Pacific railway com.
pany filed suit In superior court at
Kelso against Cowlitz county aud Ell.
don Durham, county treasurer, seek.
ing a rebate of $6325 for an alleged
overpayment of 1924 taxes In Cowlitx
county.
N. d. Williver Of Hoquiam bagged q
35-pound wildcat while hunting on the
East Hoquiam river. The cat is said
to be the largest taken out of this
vicinity in some time. 1t measured
SIS inches from toe to toe and ~ inches
from tip to tip.
Members Of company G, first Wash
ington volunteers, held their annual
banquet at Vancouver on the twenty.
seventh anniversary of the battle OF
Santa Anna, which was the beginning
of the Philippines insurrection. Com.
pany G was in the battle.
Claims against the Tacoma Munici.
pal Belt Line amounting to $141,227
have been filed as an outcome of the
accident on December 80, when a
street car, carrying nine passengers,
plunged through an open draw of the
Eleventh street bridge into the city
waterway.
Carol E. York, a. proprietor of a
service station near Camp Lewis. was
killed when the car which he was
driving was run into by Northern Pa.
cific train 422. bound from Moclips to
Tacoma. The accident occurred at
Miller's crossing, about IL miles south
Of Tacoma.
Occupancy of the Allen C. Mason,
Franklin B. Gault and the Captain
Robert Gray intermediate schools es.
tablished the Tacoma school system
on the 6.3-3 plan and brought to a
close the s2.4O0,O0O building program
made possible by vote of Tacomans
in 1928. There are now six interme.
diate schools in use.
One Of the largest mortgages ever
recorded in Cowlitz county was filed
at Kalama, being given by the Crown.
Willamette Paper company to the Con.
tinental & Commercial Trust & Saw.
ings bank Of Chicago, ILL.,, to secure a
bond issue of s2O,OOO,0OO with s5,OOO,-
900 in bonds authorized for issuance
later il desired. The filing fee was
$165,45. The company owns boom.
age rights near Martins bluff and $50
acres of land in Cowlitz county. The
mortgage covered property in 25 coun-
ties of Washington. Oregon and Cali
fornia
Action Of the state supreme court in
multiplying contract given o. D. Wolf
& Co. by the Clarke county commits.
sioners, to macadamize 13 miles of
road from Camas to Orchards, may
cost the county more money than the
original contract.
Miss Fretzer Butler, 26. and Steve
Novak, 43, foreman for lumber
company, were found shot to death in
a hotel room in Tacoma. Police who
broke into the room said Novak had
evidently slain the woman and then
taken his own life.
Vandalism at their clubhouse pre-.
vented the shoot Of the Castle Rock
Gun club Sunday. When the marks
men arrived at their clubhouse near
Castle Rock they found that van.
dals had entered it. destroyed the clay
pigeons, stolen the ammunition and
damaged the traps.
Overproduction in the lumber indus,
try Of the Pacific northwest, with n
decline in prices, forced many op.
orators to do business at loss dur.
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