Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-26

Walla valley railway was reduced Il
$1,000 from $4,000 by the board o.
equalization. The change was mads
on the abandoned portion of the line
in the city and the value given wai
,hat of Junk" it was explained.
Organization of Cowlitz county into
an accredited tuberculin tested area Is
sought by County Agent Leonard and
leaders of the dairying industry. To
organize the county into an accredited
area, which makes the testing OF all
cattle within the county compulsory
requires that owners of 81 per cent
OF the cattle in the county sign appli
cations for testing.
Awarding OF s250.0OO construction
contract on the Great Northern rail-
road near Scotia to Morrison & Knud-
sen OF Boise, Idaho, was announced
by Ralph Budd, president of the road.
Elimination OF sharp curve in Scotia
canyon is to be effected through the
construction of an S00.foot tunnel and
the removal of several thousand yards
of rock. A bridge over swamp in
the canyon also will be eliminated.
The $500 reward offered by Cow
litz county for the arrest of John w.
Owens, alias John w. Smith, convict
ed OF first-degree murder for the death
of Thomas novery, Kelso editor, was
divided between three persons by the
county commissioners. George Il.
Fritsche, sergeant of the st. Louis,
Mo-. police department; Charles Sum-
meriield, sheriff at Moscow, Idaho, and
Rosetta Smith, Moscow. Idaho, shared
the money.
Revisions of a forestry constitution
al amendment rejected by the people
November and OF bill for reorgan-
ization of the forestry board that Gov.
ernor Hartley vetoed were considered
by the Washington state forestry CON
ference. which held its sixth annual
session in Seattle. The conference APP
proved bill to create state forestry
experiment station at the University
of Washington II calls for appropria-
tion of $4,000.
Deputy Prosecutor Peyser of King
county announced that Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Fasick, Seattle department store
robbers, will be charged formally by
Snohomish county prosecutors with
numbering Charles Harris of Kenosha,
Wis. Harris, whose body was found
November 10 covered with brush 1I
miles north Of Seattle and near high
way, was slain between September 2!
and October 3, said Peyser. The
Fasieks are in the penitentiary for &
holdup of two messengers of a depart
ment store in Seattle August 8, 1924
when $4,000 was stt.en.
A tentative program calling for OK
penditure OF S97,514000 on existin,
federal irrigation projects out OF tn,
reclamation fund has been submitted
to the budget bureau and to Repre-
sentative l.. c, Champion Of Michigan
chairman OF the house subcommittee
ON interior department appropriations
by Secretary of Interior Work. The
program recommends appropriation OF
y25 $4,000 on the Yakima project in
Washington, Of which Sc, 700 900 would
be spent on the Kittltas division In
four years, before any other expendi
lures were made. The storage Gle
Elum reservoir would next be com
pleted at cost of s5,511,OOO, begin.
ming with the fiscal year 1892. From
1884 on the Roza and kennewlck diyi
sions would be completed at costs OF
ss,6S5.O00 and s4,6s3,00O respectively
Dedicatory exercises for the new
$4,000 Moose temple we're held at
Chehalis. Aberdeen, Hoquiam. Long.
view, Kelso, Ryderwood, Raymond
Olympia, Centralia, Tacoma. Seattle
ana Spokane lodges we're represented
Payment of sss63s interest on
forestry bonds was ratified at a meet
ing OF the forestry board in Olympia
1t was decided that this would be the
only money spent from the appropria.
ton Of 10000 made by the last legisla.
ture. but that $4,000 would be asked
Tor the next biennium.
Edmond Alsteen, 4, son OF Mr.. ans
Mrs. Thomas Alsteep. was killed al
most instantly when struck by vi
automobile in front of his home. fou
niles east Of vaacouver on the Nortl
bank highway. The automobile wa
driven by Leo Jermann OF Camas.
Mrs. Bertha X. Landes, mayor OF Sc
tttle. has departed for the middI
vcst. She will stop at Lawrence
Kan, to visit her son, who is 4
school there The trip viii terrninst
IL Chicago. Mrs Landee expects b
ba back In Seattle In two weeks