Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-07
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

! Two collisions OF cars have occurred
; because the drivers were blinded with
I dust, between Addy and Chewelah.
/ State highway officials, who are resur-
facing the eight miles between the
towns, have laid speed regulation
! of 10 miles an hour through the dusty
stretch.
The total amount of manufactured
lumber shipped by water during 1925
from Oregon, Washington and British
i Columbia was 4,S76,1S952s feet, board
measure. according TO the annual re-
port of the secretary-manager OF the
Pacific lumber inspection bureau at
i Seattle.
Four Seattle policemen suspended
April l for month"; after federal pro-
hibition officers charged them with
accepting $500 bribe from Japan
ese TO see that he was lightly prosecut.
1 ed for operating a still, have been
restored to good standing and paid
in full for their vacation period.
Preparatory to arguing the cases in
the state supreme court. the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul and the North
ern Pacific Railway companies have
filed their briefs with the clerk of the
court in the tax suits contesting the
valuations and ratios fixed by the
state board of equalization. The board
rulings were upheld in the Thurston
county superior court.
The senate passed and sent to the
house the Jones bill providing for the
REIMBURSEMENT by the United States
OF all title to lands granted to states
or territories in aid OF public schools
The measure, sponsored by western
senators, is designed to prevent the
government from recovering lands
granted years ago to states on the
ground that later they were found to
be mineral-bearing.
Allotments totaling 45.255.45O for
river and harbor improvements during
the fiscal year beginning July | were
| announced by the war department.
The allotments for 3his state include:
Skamekaw creek, $500; Willapa river
and harbor. $1,000; Grays harbor and
bar entrance, s1S5,O00; Puget sound
and tributary waters, $4,000; Seattle
harbor, 100000; surveys of northern
and northwestern lakes, sli5,OO0.
The Ocean Beach Transportation
company. which runs automobile
stages from South Bend to Naselle,
knappton, Long Beach, Chinook and
llwaco, has made application to the
state board of public works for per
mission to extend its service to Ray
mond, put on busses to run half hour.
ly between South Bend and Raymond
and to extend its service to the Colum.
bia river and across the river at As
toria.
Transfer OF s2.OOO.OOO in stock OF
the Grangeyile Electric Light & Pow.
er company of Idaho. the Enterprise
Electric company of Oregon and the
Deschutes Power company of Oregon
to the Inland Light & Power company
was completed at Spokane. Sale OF
the plants to the Inland was an.
rounced last January The Inland is
an associate OF the Pacific Power &
Light company, which will operate the
plants.
Funds will be raised by the Masonic
lodges of Centralia. oakville and
Tenlno for placing monument at
Grand Mound to mark the site OF a
lodge. the third to be organized in
Washington territory that existed
there in the early days. The lodge
in question received it's charter in
July, 1858, from the Oregon grand
lodge. and was one OF four that or
sani2ed the Washington grand lodge
in December of the same year.
Airplane patrol of private and ma
tional forests in Washington and Ore.
gon will begin June l5 this year. with
two planes each at Seattle and Eu
gene and landing fields IN other local.
ties The fund left over from last
season, about $4,000. viii be used to
start the patrol aud continue It until
June 30, when a new appropriation
which has been approved and viii
come up for passage by congress In
the near future will probably go into
effect
Prosecuting Attorney Arthur p
Graham in superior court at Monte.
aano asked that a hearing be held to
determine the present mental state OF
Guido Grassi. ~. convicted Italian
murderer who has been twice sen.
fenced to he hanged
4 ruling that money donated to the
seattle community fund chhnot be de-
lucted from income tax returns as do
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