Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-12

elected president Of the Western PHI
Manufacturers association at the an
nual convention at Spokane. Walter
Leuthold. OF Deer Park, was elected
vice.president and A. w. Cooper Of
Portland was reelected secretary.
manager. Harry X. Brown Of Bend.
Or, was reelected treasurer.
Hnrbor improvements at Olympia
costing $4,000, with $4,000 annually
for maintenance. were recommended
to congress by the chief Of engineers
OF the army. Provision of channel
~ feet deep at low water and 150 feet
wide. from deep water In the outer
harbor to point opposite the entrance
of the west side waterway. was ap.
proved.
Hindu workmen Of Grays harbor
have formed an organization to pro.
mote law abidance among their own
numbers. In recent months many of
their countrymen have been arrested
on various charges. and recently the
Schafer Brothers Timber company fir.
ed all Hindu employees and set up
rule that no more OF that nationality
| would be hired.
Deeds involving the purchase Of l5,.
600 acres with approximately 100000.
600 feet Of fine quality yellow pine
s:umpage by the Vernon Parish Lum.
ber company, Inc, OF Louisiana, are be.
Ing recorded with the auditor Of Kick.
itat county. The timber is on the north
slope Of the Simcoe mountains and on
the upper Big Kllckitat river In Klick.
itat and Yakima counties.
For the first time In many months
seals killing salmon and other fish
have been observed and killed In the
vicinity OF Pillar Rock on the Colum.
bia river, according to Charles r. May.
bury, state director of licenses, who
issued report showing that hunters
killed 80 seals In state waters during
January. A. ]. Anderson of Pillar
Rock will receive bounty Of SO for
each Of the 20 seals he killed, while
William Luhr OF Nisqually, with the
next highest catch, will be paid for
soven seals. No less than % seals
we're killed in the vicinity of the Mis-.
qually river mouth, Puget sound, It is
shown.
Officers elected BY the Washington
State Holstein Friesian association,
which held q two-day session at Che.
halls, are as follows: President, Har.
vey Shoultes Of Adna; vice. president,
H. G. Davis of Granger; secretary.
treasurer, George Bulkley Of Seattle.
These officers. together with Thomas
G. Lockhart of Mount Vernon; Ed
Hoem Of Snohomish, A. E. Smith
Of Sumas, Alex Todd of Yakima and
A. M. Ghormley Of Carnation consti-
tute the board Of directors. Auburn
was chosen as the next meeting place.
It was voted to hold a state auction
sale twice year under management
of directors.
The senate began laying the founda.
tion for the country's greatest irriga-
tion project when its committee on ir.
.!gation and reclamation unanimously
voted favorable report on the Jones
bill to assist the states of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana In agree.
ing on the division Of the waters Of the
Columbia river. The bill specifically
would authorize the secretary Of inter.
ior y cooperate with the states in
bringing about such compact. and
would Appropriate $25,OOO for the work.
The compact is the first step neces.
sary in the construction of the prof.
ect, designed to irrigate 1850, 900 acres
of land in the Columbia basin.
Although outnumbered In one in.
stance by the number of similar organ.
izations located in other cities, TIA.
coma, with nine associations, had a
lead Of nearly S5,OOO,OOO over It's near.
est competitor. in the tabulations OF
savings and loan associations for the
year ending December 81, 1925, ac.
cording to figures just submitted by
Supervisor w. L. Nicely. The total
assets OF these organizations for the
state amounted to s76,145. 900. Sc, or an
increase of $16,244,959.97 over the
figures taken at the close of 1924 Sc.
attic. with 15 associations, had assets
totaling $17,951 .556.17, which was the
second highest amount, with Tacoma
leading with assets of s22,192,572l3.
A young hair seal weighing 70
pounds was caught alive by Clyde
Bush, Kelso fisherman, in his fish tran
near Mount Coffin. It was the second
hair seal taken by Bush in his trap in
three weeks, the other being killed.
Moonshine Of unusual high power
was sold In Kalama last week, accord
ing to mill worker of that town who