Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-01-08

were consIdorol a. Spokane Saturday
by the illiteraGy committee Of the
State PmentTeacher association.
Olympia's first auto fatality in 1926
occurred early Friday morning when
the machine Of George A. Torchio. 81,
catapulted off the West bay drive to
the flats 30 feet below throwing Tor
chic In such manner that his skull
was fractured, causing instant death
The house at Olympia passed the
new game code and the codification of
existing taxation laws, both previous.
ly passed by the senate. The house
also passed the senate bill creating a
real estate commissioner and requir
Ing the licensing of real estate brok-
/ ers.
Successful in its bid on 600 carloads
Of box shocks for the citrus district
OF California, the Grays Harbor Veneer
company of Hoquiam, now employing
200 persons in two shifts, will add a
third shift of rs persons later this
menth as a means of speeding up pro.
duction.
Within a few weeks the entire ST..
100000 building program undertaken
4 in 1923 by the Tacoma school board
will have been completed and nearly
10000 pupils will be carrying on their
studies in one of the finest educational
systems in the country. Three of six
new intermediate schools are finished
and in use.
The schedule for 2i-hour airplane
/ mail service between Seattle and Los
Angeles to be inaugurated about April
| by Verne c. Gorst and r. l.. Gardner
4 of North Bend, Or, successful bidders
/ for the contract, was announced as
follows: Mail leaving Seattle at 8 A.
| M. is to reach Los Angeles at 5:25
the next morning. The northbound
plane will arrive in Seattle at 3:l5
P. NJ.
Nineteen Indian tribes in western
/ Washington have completed arrange.
ments for S25,000,0O0 suit against the
| government to obtain fulfillment of
promises made them in treaty sign
! ed 20 years ago by Isaac l. Stevens,
| Washington's first territorial COVER
nor. The treaty, which called for the
establishment of huge central res
ervation with schools and hospitals,
was never fulfilled.
The valuation for rate-making pur.
poses of the Pacific Power & Light
campany's operating properties is plac-
ed at $6,332,O40 in an order issued by
tlle state department of public works.
| The rate making base was reduced
$1,1S7,224 from the old base of ST.
469,22S principally by the elimination
OF dormant properties. The company
serves the Walla Walla-YalSima dis
trict with electric energy.
That the state OF Oregon is willing
and anxious TO cooperate with the
state of Washington in continuing to
round up stolen cars and that it will
extend every courtesy to the drivers
of this state who have not yet been
able to equip their cars with the 1926
license plates, was the expression
! voiced in letter from the Oregon sec
retary OF state, Sam A. Kozer, to
Charles r. Maybury, state director of
licenses.
The bill of Representative Jacobs of
Pierce county, to permit cities owning
municipal power plants TO sell current
within fixed territory outside their
corporate limits, was passed by the
house by the close vote of so to Al.
The bill provides for the payment OF
a per cent tax to the state on all
outside sales. 1t is modification OF
the Bone and Reed power bills, sub
mitted to vote Of the people in last
years general election, both of which
were Overwhelmingly defeated.
Two bids were submitted for $500
acres of timber north of Spokane, re-
Gently offered for sale by the forest
service The timber is on Sherman
creek in what is known as the Colville
forest. The highest bid of the two was
submitted by the Hedlund Lumber &
Manufacturing company of Spokane.
This company bid 1886 a thousand for
pine, $3O5 for cedar and S1.O2 for
other species or the property The
government cruise places the amount
of pine on the property at 5OOOO,OOO
feet. Other species OF timber is plac-
ed at 100000.
Harvey Johnson, a farmer living on
Jackson Prairie, ~ miles southeast of
Chehals, suffered the loss of both
hands above the wrist when a box
of dynamite caps which he was open
ing exploded prematurely.
That the holiday season has curtail-
cd lumber activities is shown by the
weekly report that 90 mills reporting