Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-09-17
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

and Arthur Barringer. engineer. ana
brakeman were badly scalded, when
an engine plunged over bridge 80
miles from Mount Vernon. The en-
sine was operated by the English Log.
ging company.
The busy little bee collected In an
enormous swarm at the Thurston
county fair grounds in Tenino and
held a feast in the Agricultural build
/ ing. Their convention banquet con.
sisted of the 15-pound honey exhibit
which entirely disappeared.
Application for an interstate certi.
ficate of public necessity authorizing
an auto freight line between Walla
Walla and Portland was filed with the
public works department bv A. B, Du.
fure aud L. V. Moon, as the Old Ore
gon Trail freighting company.
Centralia's postal receipts for the
first eight months OF 1926 totaled s25,-
1851, according to announcement by
Postmaster Bras. During the same
period of 1925 the receipts were s24,-
O43.47, making gain of s134234.
Deputy Sheriff Banderob left Port
Angeles for Nashville. Tenn, with ex-
tradition papers to bring back DR.. Paul
d. Moore OF Sequim. accused OF kill.
ing his wife with poison tablets.
Moore was arrested at brothers
home in Nashville and is free on $40.
600 bail,
After amicably settling several prop.
erty awards for residence property In
Olympia to provide land for land
scaping the capitol group building, the
state capitol committee has determin.
ed that It is improbable that more
than one action in condemnation will
have to be carried to the courts.
A new tatiff on buttermilk and
whole milk for long distance hauls
was filed with the department of pub
lie works by the Northern Pacific rail
way, effective October I. The new
schedule will favor the shipper cents
can on flyegallon cans; cents on
S'gallon cans and S cents on 10.gallon
cans.
After they had been In the custody
OF Uncle SANS mail service almost n
full year, n set OF license plates which
could not be delivered was returned
to the state license department AT
Olympia. The plates were mailed latt
last year TO II. i. Taylor, whose aG
dress the department had RECORDED
at Selah
A resolution fayorlng employment, OF
field worker to raise money within
the Columbia river conference OF III,
Methodist Episcopal church for re
tired minister's pension fund. to be
administered on the plan OF old line
Insurance., was offered and adopted In
the SD annual session of the confer
enee At Walln Walla.
The state Of Washington pared the
cost of maintaining and operating tn,
general departments of It's govern
nent approximately 100000 durlnr
the fiscal year 1925 and Topped almost
slOOOOOO off it's revenue receipts IN
the same period. according to tho
summary of financial statistics issued
by the department OF commerce.
The lS6.acre capitol timber tract in
the North river section of Grays Har.
bor county, cruises OF which caused
dispute between Governor Hartley and
A, j. Morley, president OF the Saginaw
Timber company, nearly disruptIng
iwo sessions OF the capitol committe,
carly In the summer, was sold to Nor
iey's company on bid Of s25, ,s3s5o
The figure Just met the states M
pralsal of tho timber. based on IN,
slate cruise Of approximately 1900.
eco feet
Three fires, widely separated. occur
red In the Peninsula district OF North
Beach. The most serious was blayt
Ut Naselle, on the Naselle river, H.
which the postoffice and general store
Of w. NJ. Moffitt, a garage and tw,
dwellings we're destroyed. The loss
was estimated at $4,000. The HON,
II a. II. Caples, five miles north OF
llwaco. also burned with loss esti
mated at $500 and fire did $500 dam.
'se to the printing plant of the North
teach Tribune at lIwaco.
The Grays Iiarbor Good Roads as.
leiatlon was formed at Hoauiam last
eek ne body to take active meas
-eg TO have thu Olympic Highways
instructed further into Grays Har.
districts no, nov reached by Kood
ads.
With the appointment Of Miss
ha squires o. West Kelso as
ember Of the city cau3cil from the