Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-15

chee, private hOWitZer company, 161St
Infantry, and james G. Lenfest, Sno-
homsh, of the 24Sth Coast artillery.
A. L. Callahan, sheriff of Whatcom
county, was fined SO and cost by
Judge Jeremiah Neterer, in the Unit.
ed States district court at Bellngham,
after he had been found guilty of con.
tempt in allowing two federal prison.
ers, committed to the county Jail iof
violations of the federal prohibition
laws, to enjoy extraordinary privileges,
The senate carried out the house
plan of at least partially cleaning up
the local improvement district assess
ments due and owing on property own
ed by the state. The bill already pass
ed by the house was passed by the
senate. This appropriates $26,19O11,
which is the present amount of the
states own improvement district de.
linquency due to the city of Olympia.
Half of an estate valued at 81 ,6OO,-
600 left by Thomas Burke of Seattle,
pioneer in the development of the Pa
cific northwest, who died in New York
city while speaking in advocacy of
Friendship for Japan, was bequeathed
to his widow. Whitman college, Walla
Nalla, which Judge Burke served as
director many years, received $780,
OOO. and nephew, Thomas R. Gar.
rett OF Hunnewell, Kan, receives the
same.
An additional appropriation of So.
100000 for the Kittitas high line
reclamation project was asked of the
budget bureau by Representative Sum.
mers of Walla Walla, who informed
budget officials that the investment
already made in the project justified
an increase in expenditure for the next
fiscal year. Dams and other improve
ments already installed he said. would
not become effective until more money
was spent on the project itself.
With ceierity and very little discus.
sion the house and senate overrode
the governors veto of the bill that
would permit regents and trustees of
higher schools to contract with pri.
ySte parties for construction of dormi-
tory, boarding, housing and student
activity buildings on campus sites. The
bill provided for ultimate school own
ership through amortization of build
ing costs. The house repassed the
measure, GO to rs, and the senate by
q to TO-
Twenty-Five citizens of Ilwaco and
the north beach peninsula drove 14O
miles through severe rainstorm to
appear at a hearing OF the state high.
way board relative to relocation of
a portion of the Ocean Beach high
way between the Chinook and Walli.
cut rivers. The board assured the del.
egation that the new route would ir
no way be detrimental to the best in
'erests of the peninsula communities
but was only to straighten out and
n3nrove the present road.
Faces of senate and house clocks
Eore carefully covered but the private
:Gtohes checked The finish of the state
legislatures extraordinary session al
i;45 o'clock Friday morning, an actual
lapse of nearly two hours beyond the
5O'day limitation. Just a few minutes
before the final fall of the gavels the
committee that had been sent to notify
Governor Hartley that the legislature
was about to adjourn brought back
word that the governor had nothing
more to say except to wish the mem.
bers, one and all, very happy New
Year.
The end of the session of the Iegis.
lature has left 105 measures in the
hands of Governor Hartley. or this
number several seemed doomed to
prompt veto in the light of the cover.
nors well-known opinions. Among
these were the bill re-establishing the
women's industrial home and clinic,
with an appropriation of S15O,OOO; the
bill approprating 100000 for state
participation in the esqui.centennial
exposition at Philadelphia this year; !;
the bill to provide pensions for the
civil service employees of Seattle, and
the bill setting up a system of old.age
pensions to be paid out of county
funds.
Jesse Ingraham, itinerant Texan, es.
capped hanging when he was sentenced
to term Of 40 to 80 years in the state
penitentiary by Judge Chapman in
superior court at Tacoma. A jury last
week found Ingraham guilty of murder
in the first degree for the Staying OF
Joseph @. Hedges, Seattle attorney,
and imposed hanging as the penalty.
Judge Chapman granted Ingraham a
new trial. lngraham Immediately
waived hearing and pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree and was