Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-19
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

Receipts of the Cowlitz county game
fund for the year ending February rs
totaled s11,66S.90.
Nearly 800 men went back to work
in the logging and numbering indus
try in Cowlitz county last week with
the resumption of operations.
Plans for $4,000 addition to the
Grays Harbor county sanitarium at
Elma were approved by DR.. A. E.
Studt, state director Of health.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has inaugurated gasoline car
service between Olympia and Cen
tralia. The new car replaces steam
train of three cars.
Directors of the Vancouver chamber
of commerce have gone on record as
iavoring a tariff on shingles to protect
the industry in the northwest from
Canadian competition.
P. NJ. Mundy, 70, old-time resident
If Winlock, was killed instantly when
lie was struck by northbound Ore
Washington passenger train while
walking on the track.
Officers of the Washington State
Master Plumbers association have
.ecided to hold the annual conven-
lion of the association this year at
Longview May and 8.
A Pacific northwest conference on
eligious education was held al Spo-
zane. The conference was under the
auspices of the Portland area OF the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Five thousand pounds OF powder
was used in one discharge to blast l5,-
300 yards OF rock from ledge on the
Ocean Beach highway at Bunker. The
rock will be used in road construction.
One hundred mills reporting to West
Coast Lumbermen's association for
the week ending February q manu-
iactured 96,369.s1S feet of lumber, sold
99,72S,O21 feet and shipped 97,S45,616
feet.
Egnac Ratynski, Humptulips valley
ranches. shot and Killed his sister-in-
law, Mrs. Taresi Ratynski, so, and
then took his own life by dischsrging
box of dynamite In the woods back
of her home.
Fred HER, SO, fisherman living at
Altoona. was drowned in the Columbia
river when he slipped from the stern
of fishboa, owned by Il. Henrickson.
as the latter was taking him from AS
toria to Altoona.
State Director of Business Control
Olson announced from Olympia that
he had accepted. effective May 1. the
resignation of Charles H. Brifiet as
head of the state training school for
boys at Chehalis.
More than f50,O00,O00 feet of Doug
las fir, valued at 100000 has been
shipped to Florida from the Pacific
northwest since November 1. the West
Coast I.umbermen's association an
nounced at Seattle.
Operation of the Elko-Pas air mail
route will begin April 6. Mail between
New York and the far northwestern
cities and also between San Francisco
and the northwest will be greatly OK.
pedited by the new service.
Loot valued at more than $1,000
stolen by Henry Smith. burglar held
in the Cowlitz county Jail at Kelso.
was received by the sheriff's office
from Sacramento. Cal, where Smith,
alias Ben Stark. had shipped 1t.
Fire destroyed the new 10000 build
ing OF the Washington Childrcns
Home society at Home Valley. eight
miles east OF Stevenson. Twenty-eight
boys were being cared for at the in
stitution. The building was completed
last September.
The state capital committee award
ed the contract OF furni1hlng the door
to the treasurer's vault In the new
capital building and the metal lining
OF the vault to the Mosler Safe and
Lock company of Hamilton. Ohio, on
their bid of siO.ss0.
The Japanese steamer Horaisan
Maru outward bound with lumber for
Japan, turned on it's side At the Grays
harbor bar. The As men aboard were
picked up by the three tugs that were
escorting the steamer out OF the bar.
Dor The vessel is total loss.
precedent was said to have been
established in this stats by decision
By a. W. Hawkins. Judge OF the Yaki-
ma superior court. whsn he held that
dissipation OF personal property did
not affect the owners liability for
taxes assessed on account Of H.
Alvs kilbourn Of Everett. on his
second trial. was convicted at Seattle