Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

key to the vault. she arrived 15 min
utes after the robbers had left.
An electric elevator that will lift 212
tons 100 feet minute or 10 tons 25
feet minute is being installed at the
Vancouver port dock by the Solby
Steel & Engineering company of Se-
attic. The elevator will be used for
loading and unloading river boats.
Alter pausing and glancing at a
window sign reading: Strike While
the Iron is Hot" two men carrying
pistols and wearing handkerchiefs in
front of their faces entered savings
and loan institution in Seattle, took
$500 from employees and departed,
The claim made by Clark county,
under the Oregon and California grant
land tax refund act has been reduced
from s5999.11 to s37G457 by special
examiners at the department of inter
ior and payment. on that basis recon-
mended to the secretary of the treas
ury.
Providing a five-cent street car fare
for an area close to the business sec
tion and 10-cent fare for the city at
large, zoning plan for the Tacoma
Railway & Power company has been
agreed upon between the city council
and the street car company The new
plan will go into effect Monday, De-
cember 20.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
has purchased two tracts of timber in
eastern Cowlitz county, totaling 4S0
acres, deeds filed in the county audi.
,or's office show. The new railway
of the Weyerhaeuser company will
tap both bodies Of timber, and the
company owns ms j, of the surround
ing timber.
Half OF the 1926 prune crop grown
by members of the Washington Grow.
ers' Packing corporation has been
packed and shipped ana the plant has
been running all last week filling or.
ders. according to W H. Wood, man.
ager. Low prices for prunes has stim'
ulated consumption and and repeat
orders are being received.
In an interior department approprl,
alton bill which passed the national
house OF representatives s2.OOO,00O
was voted for construction OF tine Kit
titas high line irrigation project.
Items OF f2SSOOO for the Yakima lrrl.
cation project and s65,0OO for the
Okanogan irrigation project. where
pumping is proposed, were accepted.
Voting precincts in Clark county
were increased to "a by changes au
thorized by he county commissioners
G and d were added TO Camas and
Battle Ground was divided into north
aud south Oak Park at Camas was
eliminated. Part ef Batilc Ground
north was added to Helsson. part OF
Manor was added to Battle Ground
north and part OF Alpine to Lactamas
Of stOi lO9.80 returned to the state
by tho federal government as lts three
fourihs share OF tho money received
from sale Of tlmbnr In federal forests
Ia Washington, southern timber coun.
tics shared as follows; cowlita. sl5.
Klichtat. 81; Lewis, f2O2s. skamania,
fiOs2; Yakima, $4,000; Grays lIarbor
sssis; Rirutas, sii0f; Thursiou. 81.
Columbia. Sl7ssf Garfield. siOs2;
walla WaIla
The state wiring code standardiza.
tion committee met In Wanatoleo and
drew up code governing the install.
iatlon Of All kinds Of electrical wiring
throughout the state. The code viii
be submitted to the next legislature
Il was said that Il will be of special
Importance 10 people living In rural
districts aud small towns, where there
are no ordinances governing the char
acter or quality Of wiring installation
Another slump in the production o.
lumber Tor 100 mills was noted Tor ihs
week ending December II In tn
feakly report Of the West Coast Lum
hermeu's Association. which shower
.ho in al production had declined frou.
1903 lnlsG7 feet The week previous l.
as.0iIsii feet Shipments also shower
decline Of from s9i55,iSs to s2.isI
fgr fcrt, but the demand was on ih,
parade. new orders booked totalln
stIGg437 feet compared TO 7s07fs9
i The s5pvious week
Seattle banks have won a victory
ser The city council Il was disclosef
ben. after conference in Mayo
andes office. Finance cLairma
gains announced that the counoI
auld repeal Us recently enacted of
nance setting 2is per cent a. tht
rIarest rate the hanks would BE- r.
llifed to pay ne city Tor betasei
siGa0.0oe and 100000 On deposit
rfra declared that HANKS belonefrr