Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-22
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

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Governor Hartley Friday signet
seven bills of approximately rs await
ing his action. One of the most i'm
portant measures approved was sen
nte bill 81, increasing the salary o
the superintendent of public instruc
tion from $4,000 to siGaO year. TIL,
governor had until Wednesday TO an
prove or reject the remaining n
ures. Any bills left over automaticall,
become law without the chief execu
tive's signature.
r. w. Lincoln of Portland has re
ceived a permit for development of 6
power project on the Toutle river Il
miles above its confluence with the
Cowlitz... The project involves con
struction of dam ITO feet high, 100
feet wide at its base and 500 feet wide
at its top behind which 10000 acre
feet of water would be impounded. The
cost OF the project was estimated al
S3,OOO.OO0. The permit provides fol
Immediate development.
Instead of receiving the S3955l
awarded them by the Clarke county
court for damages to their dairy bust
ness through feeding stock alleged
poisonous meal, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Harper residing near Vancouver
must relinquish claim to the award
and pay a balance of S63549, accord
ing to decision of the state supreme
court, which reversed the Clarke coun
ty court. The high court held that
the retailer had advanced no warranty
to the purchasers.
Construction of scenic highway
from Olympia to Blaine, following the
shore of Puget sound, known as the
Puget Sound Marine View highway.
was Endorsed by meeting at Seattle
of citizens and public officials called
by the city planning commission tc
discuss routing the highway through
Seattle. About half of the highway
has been built and large part paved,
so that the task which remains is to
connect the links. A committee was
created to draft the plans.
Construction of tunnel about 20
miles long, just beneath the surface
of Mount Rainier, winding around the
mountain from bottom to top, is pro
posal Charles w. Garret of Puyallup
laid before the Rainier national park
advisory board. Garrett said such a
tunnel could be made a supremely
scenic highway, with stopping places
and windows from which to view ma
ture, and declared it would eliminate
danger from the 10,00O-foot ascent and
make visiting the top of the mountain
possible at any time of the year. He
had the details all worked out, even
to provision for automobile parking on
top of the mountain.
Lumber shipments from Willapa har
Dor during December set new high
record for a single month and increas,
ed the years total to the highest mark
yet recorded. A total of 7,792,O0O
shingles and 21,S16,S10 feet of lumber
and lath were shipped during the
month. Total shipments :or the year
showed marked decrease in shingle
exports, but the highest mark yet
reached in shipments of lumber and
ath. Shipments of the latter totalled
173,624,4S feet in 1925 as against 166,.
i91,S52 feet in 1923, the former high
mark. Shingle shipments dropped
from almost 100,O0O,O00, the 1928 rec.
ord, to only little over 5O,OOO,OOO
during the same period in 1925.
The state fisheries board has adopt
ed the following rule governing fish,
ing for steelhead salmon in streams
in Lewis, Cowlitz and Clarke counties
from January 10 to March Is. 1t will
be legal TO fish for steelhead during
that period with hook and line in the
Tilton river Cowlitz river, Coweeman
river below the Pacific highway,
Toutle river below the forks, Kalama
river below the power house, the north
fork of Lewis river, east fork of Lewis
river below LaCenter Washougal
river from a point 400 feet below the
Cotterell power plant to the mouth
and Salmon creek from Cougar creek
to Lake river. The bag limit is %
salmon in one day and no fish may
be taken under ten inches in length
The seven sons and one daughter of
Daniel Drumheller, pioneer eastern
Washington cattleman and capitalist,
who died year ago. will share equally
in his estate of S210,0OO under de.
cree of distribution filed in superior
court in Spokane.
A total of 114,260 sets of the 1925
automobile licenses have gone forward
to their owners. according to Charles
r. Maybury, state director of licenses
This is an increase of 23,3t0 over the