Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-05
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purposes Brown made this statamcn
in opening his campaign for reeiec
tion The city primary election Il
scheduled for February 23.
Sheriff Matt Starwlch Of King coun
'y expressed the opinion that bod,
found In Puget sound January II wa,
that OF Herman Scheck and tEn "
was murdered. Scheck had been miss
ing from Seattle since December
and had failed to appear In two cour
cases.
II. p, Dad" Hunter, special agen,
for the Union Pacific railroad, witt
headquarters In Seattle, was Instant,
Killed when an automobile in which he
was riding, driven by Deputy Sheriff
Macintosh of Grays Harbor county
turned over about two miles east OF
Satsop.
The Idaho state department OF agri
culture announces through Commits
sioner klosness the placing of quar-.
antine against Montana, Washington
and Oregon, and IL Idaho counties, to
prevent introduction of the Colorado
beetle into the principal potato.grow.
ing sections of the state.
The timber sales department of the
forest service has approved the sale of
about l1,d0O,000 feet Of timber In the
Snoqualmie national forest to Clement
G. Kennedy of Fortson. The sale in.
cludes about 100000 feet of fir, L..
100000 feet Of cedar 3,500,0OO feet of
hemlock and 100000 feet of other
species.
Six trustees were elected by dele
gates to the Pacific Northwest Hard.
ware association convention at Spo.
kane, Those elected were John M. d.
Hansberg of Seattle, j. c. Lampert Of
Yakima, Il. o. McCutcheon of Deer
Park, John r. Stevenson of Pomeroy.
John Hoene of Cottonwood, Idaho, and
l.. M. Collins of Fairfield.
Two bridges on the hand hewn"
temporary highway leading through
Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties to
the sea have gone out and the road
is closed to traffic. The bridges We're
on the west slope of Knappton Mills
mountain, where they spanned chasms
OF from 40 to 100 feet depth. Last
year volunteer labor converted these
railroad trestles to highway traffic.
Governor Hartley was invited to CO
operate with the legislative committee
appointed during the recent special
session to study and investigate the
policy and methods of the state re.
lating to the sale of state lands and
timber. The legislative committee sug,
gested to the governor that he bring
before it all the evidence he has ac.
cumulated and any information that
he may have.
Tacoma's municipal light depart.
ment came within $4,000 of hitting
the S1,O00,OO0 mark in net operating
income for the year 1925 in spite of
the fact that an unusually dry fall
created a big shortage of electric DOW.
er at the city's La Grande plant and
nocessitated both the expensive gen.
GRAFTON OF current in the steam plant
and the purchase of much current from
outside sources.
The petition of the Pacific Power
& Light company Tor writ of review,
in taking exception to the recent find
ings of the state department of public
works, was granted in the Thurston
county superior court. The valuation
placed by the departments 2O-page
review of the case last month was S6.
3S2,046.4S. Hearing on the company's
proposed rate change will be held al
Yakima, April 81
Thirty-one millions in dividends
were distributed by mining companies
in the Pacific northwest and Alaska
in 1925, w. j. Elmdorf, vice.president
Of the Seattle Mining club, declared a.
a weekly meeting of the organization
in Seattle. He stated that 40 per cent
Of the dividends came out of Alaska
and that three of the dividend payers
are in Washington. Mines in the Pa.
cific northwest Elmdorf said, have
paid $66S,0O0,000 in dividends since
mining developments began
Roy Bolen was found guilty by
jury in superior court at Vancouver
of murder in the second degree for
he Staying July 2S of Walter w. Elem.
ming, deserter from the United
State3 army, who had been in his EN-.
ploy for seven months.
Interest on state funds accruing for
The year ending January 15, accord.
ing to statement just made public
by W. G. Potts, state treasurer.
amounted to S29S,3Ss.S6 For the week
ending January 90 the state haa
balance of S16,4g0. .631.73.