Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-22

ssue of s2OOO.OOO for the Wynooche
power project
The Tacoma city council has auth
)rized the purchase Of the Tacoma
Water Supply company for S150O00
The plant will be turned over to the
city February 2s.
Governor Hartley issued a requisi
tion on the governor Of Oregon for the
return to this state of Ralph Bisbee
wanted In Spokane county on charges
of highway robbery.
All records for lumber shipments
by water from Grays harbor were
broken in 1925, with total of 1,l16..
11O.691 feet. This is 5663O,136 feet
In excess of the 1924 figures.
Frank Howerton, citizen of Nc.
Cleary, shot himself through the heart
In his home and before his wife and
five children. Dependency over III
health was given as the cause.
State Supervisor Of Hydraulics Tiff.
fanny has set February as the date
for a hearing at Walla Walla for the
adjudication Of rights of 997 water us.
ers on the Walla Walla river and its
tributaries.
w. G. McLaren, Seattle attorney,
was appointed by the state supreme
court as member of the state board
of law examiners to complete the un
expired term of Howard M. Findley
who resigned.
One hundred and three mills, report
ing to the West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending Jan
uary 9 manufactured 65,5S3, $50 feet OF
lumber; sold 95.97O.793 feet, and ship
ped SO,672,291 feet.
Owen B. Baker of Tacoma and
Harry r. Sowash of Seattle were hang
ed at Vancouver, B. c., for killing
William ]. Gillis and William G. ellis
father and son, in hi-jacking raid
September Is, 1924.
John w. Summers, representative
Walla Walla, has made the following
postmastership recommendations for
the fourth district. Ira G. Allen, Pull
man; e. ]. Olarey, White Bluffs; Roy
E. Carey, Hartline; Richard H. Lee
Wilson Creek.
Believed dead and buried in a GENE
terry at Auburn, 20 miles south OF Sc
attic, Emmett E. Rickard, war veter
an and plasterer Of Auburn, is alive
and well, says letter purporting tc
be from him. The letter was received
by the editor of the Auburn Globe.Re
publican from Glendale, Cal, where
Rickard said he was living.
Eight postmasters in southwestern
Washington were recommended fol
consideration by Albert Johnson
representative, as follows: Golda r
Moore, Roy; William |. Leach, Stella
COON; Harry L. Bras, Centralia; Frank
S. Drummond, Gig Harbor; Ralph L
Philbrick, Hoquiam; Noel D. Tower
Morton; Michael j. Murphy, Oakvlle:
William Beach, Raymond.
The state supreme court, deciding
what it thought to be the first case OF
its kind ever considered in the state
denied attorneys for Roy Bolen, al
legged slayer, in the Clarke county Jail
the writ of mandamus which would
compel Judge Simpson to admit the
accused man to bail Bolen, charged
with the decapitation July 29 last OF
Walter w. Fleming near Vancouver
applied for bail December Is and was
refused on the ground that he was
held on capital charge.
Pasco is to have new bank, accord
ing to Harry c. Johnson, state super
visor of banking, who announced that
the department had issued charter
to the Bank of Commerce of Pasco
as the new institution will be known
Holding that bonds had been issued
for purposes which had not been auth
orized when electors of the distric,
voted them, directors of the Brewster
irrigation district declined to make o
levy for 1925 to raise funds for the re
tirement of $4,000 worth of bonds and
$500 interest, due July l, 1926.
At a special election heii at ilwnct
for the purpose of voting general obi
cation bonds Of the town for the cree
tion of a new municipal dock in Hol
man waterway at cost Of $4,000, the
voters rejected the proposal, 1O2 foi
and 76 against, the vote lacking six OF
the necessary three-fifths required by
law to authorize such an issue.
Total gross receipts on the interstate
bridge at Vancouver from the date Of
opening, February Is, 1917, up to De
cember 81, 1925, amounted to s2,9S3,
1922, is shown by the report OF
Auditor Rae, read at the meeting oi
the interstate bridge commission
| Gross nxDpndituree tntnlnd S361 G00 20