Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-23
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

gun battle by the entire night shift OF
the city police force at Spokane, o.
c. Cato, 49, musician, was only sub
dued by gas bomb. He was lodged
in jail, charged with assault with in
tent to kill.
State land and timber to be offered
for sale at public auction on May 4
is placed at s236,144.9S, in a tabula-
tion issued by Clark " Savidge, state
land commissioner. The sales include
timber appraised at s1S2,SS4.35; farm
lands valued at S42,99933 and tide
land appraised at s10,261.3O.
Holding that the service is no longer
needful, the state department of pub
lie works granted the petition filed
by the Oregon-W Washington Railway
and Navigation company, asking that
1t be allowed to discontinue the branch
feeder service between Nisqually and
Camp Lewis, on the Tacoma-P Portland
route.
There are now more than 700 col.
onies of bees in the vicinity of Oak
Point and Stella in western Cowltz
county. The average yield OF honey
will be 100 pounds per stand, which
means that from 35 to 40 tons of
honey will be produced. Tho principal
source of honey in that district is the
fireweed, which grows profusely on
the logged-off lands.
Il, Il. Donaldson and Barney Donald.
son have applied to the Lewis county
commissioners for franchises to con.
struct and operate power transmits
sion lines over the National Park high
way In eastern Lewis county. The
Donaldsons propose to furnish light
and power to the town of Mineral.
their transmission line connecting
with the Tacoma plant at La Grande.
jeff 7. Olsen, commander of Walter
G. Lee post of the American Legion
at Walla Walla, has expressed willing
ness to go to Jail II his post does not
gain more members than the Wenat.
chez post before April 30. The Wen.
atchee commander has proposed the
same penalty for himself and the race
Is on to see who stays out of Jail. The
imprisonment is to he for one night.
Reduction in freight rates on live
stock from eastern Oregon, Washing.
ton, Idaho and Montana to middle
western markets which will benefit
growers in those sections considerably
was ordered by the interstate com.
merce commission in the case of the
American National Livestock associa.
tion and related organizations against
the o.-W. II. & N. company and other
railroads of the Pacific northwest.
The bureau OF Indian affairs an
nounced that the Yakima Indian
agency will be retained at Toppenish
its present location, where supervi.
sion of the entire i,1i5.O0O acres Is ex
ercised, In rejecting proposal to
move the agency back to Fort Simcoe.
from which II was removed to Ton.
penish four years ago, the bureau de-
cided that the latter headquarters is
more centrally located for Indian
schools
David II. Smith OF the Portland
Journal was elected president of the
Pacific Northwest Circulation Man.
ayers association. In session at Long.
view. Other officers elected were.
Vice.president. Frank h. Henderson.
Vancouver Daily Province; secretary.
treasurer, r. 7. Hopwood. Portland
Oregonian; directors, w. D. Lyness.
Tacoma News Tribune. and Murray
Clark, Yakima Republic and Herald
Tacoma was selected for the 1927 con.
ventlon.
At a meeting OF the Pacific coun.
ty cranberry growers exchange. held
In Long Beach, the Pacific Fruit a
Produce company and Ryan Produce
company made an offer to the grow.
ers to take their output and pay them
fifty cents barrel more than .he
price OF the Cape Cod berries at Cane
Cod. The price for Cape Cod berries
has been sii.5O barrel. which would
mean that growers would get si2
barrel, or SO a box. as the berries on
this coast are marketed In boxes The
past season the growers did not aver.
age over 81 so hox and il Is likel,
that the offer will be accepted.
Orders booked by mills Of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association in the
week ending April 10 were only t.S27..
53s feet greater than bookings of the
previous week the total being 1891.
$50. Shipments showed a big Increase
mounting to 120.40s.62I a. against Ii2.
li5.53I feet the previous week FRO
lurtIon likewise increased from 10.
ht.3os the previous week to ia.
i03.532 feet Tho totals inelude re
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