Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-08
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

Yakima reservation growers this
season were 30 successful in market
ing their onions that the acreage viii
be increased.
The towboat Fran was almost com
pletely destroyed by fire as she lay at
the dock Of the Western Machinery
Exchange in Aberdeen.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed With the secretary OF state by
the Central Power 4 Light company,
capitalized Tor $4,000.
Judge Miles l.. Clifford, 70, a Judge
Of the Pierce county superior court
for the past IS years, died at Tacoma,
following an operation for append
citis.
Work of widening the channel of the
Cowlitz river near Castle Rock was
resumed last week by crews of the
longview, Portland & Northern rail.
road.
Helen Griffin, 13.year.old Long
view girl, won the diamond ring of.
fared by Kelso and Longview Wer
chants for the best Trade at Home"
essay.
The senate passed the constitutional
amendment that II adopted by the peo-
pie would increase the compensation
of legislators from SIS day to $500
a year.
A cougar hunt in the territory east
Of Pigeon Springs on the Kalama river
is the sport which six Kalama men
have engaged in for the balance Of the
winter.
BY vote of "a to 13 the senate
passed the bill providing old age and
disability pensions for supreme and
superior court judges who have serv.
ID 20 years.
Following receipt of briefs from
Rome, Bishop o'Dea of the Roman
3atholic diocese of Seattle announced
elevation of six of his priests to the
ank of monsignor.
The bill authorizing the state board
Of education to secure the use of uni
ford textbooks in all the grade schools
of the state was passed by the house
1t Olympia by vote of 66 to %.
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IN automobile near Port Angeles, in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Allen
we're riding, tore side curtain and
scratched the paint on the machine.
A 10 per cent increase in shipping
at Everett over 1924 is shown by
igures compiled at Everett. During
1925 total of 637 vessels, with total
cnnage of 1,61S511 tons, loaded there
Four persons We're killed and fom
>thers injured when municipal street
car plunged through the open draw OF
he Eleventh-street bridge at Tacoma
md dived so feet to the waters of the
bay.
Mrs. L. A. Latham was fatally in.
| ured when an automobile driven by
Mrs. Hazel Marx of Portland, skidded
and went over high bank on the
Pacific highway near Salmon creek in
Clarke county.
The output of the two Grays Har-
Dor county cheese factories for 1925
will be approximately 100000 pounds,
according to County Agent Cowen.
This is about 100000 pounds in excess
# the 1924 production.
With discharged shotgun by his
side and large wound in his stomach,
the body of John Hulick, aged about
30, was found on the floor of his home
on the Coweeman river road about
four miles east of Longview. w. T.
Patterson, deputy coroner pronounced
it suicide.
Mrs. Charles Skinner. AZ, wife of an
Everett merchant, was instantly killed
when an automobile in which she was
riding with her husband, went off the
road and down an embankment at Fife,
four miles north of Tacoma.
Plans for construction of a 35Ofoot
nog fuel dock on the Columbia river
front at Longview were announced by
d. N. Larry, bridge and dock engineer
for the Long Bell Lumber company.
Hog fuel sold to various industries
located along the river win be loaded
onto barges over the new wharf,
The Olympia city commission has
voiced itself in favor of building
large municipality operated dock as
soon as 1t can be decided that the
Columbia.street site, at present leased
to the city for warehouse purposes,
will be the definite location.
Operation of electric street cars is
a thing of the past in Walla Walla,
Three large automobile busses, owned
by the Walla Walla Transit company,
are running over schedules that will
cover larger portion of the city than