Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-05
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CHeSter Lelcnndlut, game "aiuoii
OF Cowlitz county. liberated $40 Chi
nese pheasants in different sections
of the county.
G. X. Brown, 20, was killed instant
ly when he was run over by a North
ern Pacific locomotive on the main
street of Bucoda.
Under the auspices of the American
Institute of Banking, employees OF Sc
attic financial institutions have been
organized to learn the use oil small
arms.
Arthur Anderson, ~, shot and killed
his 10-year-old sister, Dorothy, when
playing with % caliber rifle at their
Phinney bay home, four miles lrom
Bremerton.
The United States census bureau
has reported 1856 factories started in
Seattle in 1924 and 1925. The pay
roll was put at s2S,OOO,OOG and the out
put at s166,OOO0OO annually.
A suit has been instituted by the
Northern Pacific railroad seeking an
order restraining Clark county Off
Gals from proceeding to collect S22,-
270.02 in alleged excess taxes.
A meeting of free bridge advocates.
held in the Vancouver high school
building at the call OF officials of the
Clark County Free Bridge club, was
attended by more than 800 persons.
Trains Nos. 456 and 457 operated
between Centralia and Portland by
the Northern Pacific, Great Northern
and Union Pacific, which were to have
been discontinued, will be kept in
operation.
Superior Judge Jones of Seattle
| granted counsel for Wallace Cloyes
Gaines, murderer of his daughter, ex-
tension of 30 days in which to file a
statement of facts in their appeal to
I the state supreme court.
Mrs. Bertha X. Landes, mayor of
Seattle, has instructed Superintend-
ent Henderson of the municipal street
railway, to adopt changes in the sys-
TEN which estimates say would re-
duce operation costs 100000 annu-
ally.
Burning $4,000 in University of
Washington stadium bonds before the
Washington Washington foot
bali game in Seattle Saturday, marked
the payment of s5G5,O0O, the total cost
of the stadium, which was erected in
1919.
An increase in freight rates on
newsprint and post paper from Cam.
as and Oregon City and West Linn,
Ore, to Spokane and related points
in the Pacific northwest, was found
justified by the interstate commerce
commission.
Eleven Longyiew boys and young
men and seven OF Kelso have been
rounded up by the Longview and Kcl-
so police departments and the sher-
IFS office on the charge of having
committed scores of accessory thefts
within the last year
Tax lovies for 1927 set by the Cow.
litz county commissioners will raise
Si13t7i.74 for county funds, s3i6.239
for state funds and almost three.uuar.
tiers of million dollars for city and
town. road district, port district and
school district funds.
Sessions of the tenth mid-year as.
sembly Of the women's legislative
council OF Washington closed at Che.
halls with an address by Mrs. Victor
Malstrom Of Tacoma. president of the
state parent-teacher association, and
report of the resolutions committee.
Appointment OF DR.. A. f. Drucker
IF the faculty Of the University OF
Illinois as dean OF the school of mines
NJ Washington state college was an!
nounced by Dr. f. o. Holland. the
president He succeeds Dean l.. o.
Howard, who resigned several months
ago.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company. according to reports. has
just completed arrangements for what
Is said to be the largest group life in
surance policy ever written in the
state. The policy is for the benefit
Of employees, OF which there are ap-
proximately $500.
a. II. b. Jordan Of Everett. presl.
dent Of University OF Washington re.
gents, announced that selection OF a
successor TO DR.. Henry suzsalIo as
president OF the school will likely not
be made until a recall movement
which has been instituted against Gov.
cruor Hartley Is decided
The United States department OF
public works has notified the Seattle
chamber Of commerce that the inter.
state commerce comm, ssion will hear