Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-11-04
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

ngnt Northern pac..Ie passengers whl
will pass through Yakima during Ma
tional Apple week.
Alexander & Mcneil, Mount Vernon
contracting firm, completed the 3h-
mile stretch of standard pavement on
the Ocean Beach highway west of
Adna last Thursday. Completion OF
this job gives ten miles of full width
pavement to a point ten miles west
of Chehalis on the Ocean Beach high
way.
Proposal TO have the westbound air
mail planes stop at Walla Wa'la daily
on their way to Pasco is favored by
John p. Bell, manager OF the Pasco-
Boise-Salt Lake air line of the Var
ney company. postmaster Cyrus +.
Morrow stated recently. The air mail
has increased $50 per cent out Of
Walla Walla.
| Two robbers, one wearing conduc-
tors cap, held up A. Il, Wild, station
master of car barn in Seattle, and
escaped with $4,000 in cash and ~ 600
car tokens, valued at Sls cents each.
! The robbers missed a haul oil $4,000
by few minutes, as the week end col
lections had been taken away a short
time earlier.
/ Weather has been such that work
on ihe Lowden-Whitman paving job,
five-mile stretch, will be completed
by November Is, It was stated in
Walla Walla recently. The pavement
is on a new cutoff road on the main
Inland Empire highway, The state
is preparing the road from Touchet
to the Burbank bridge for oiling next
spring.
Several additional mining claims
have been located In the Crawford
district, near Vancouver, making Il
total Of 10. Development work has
not reached stage where it can be
determined definitely whether or not
gold exists In paying quantities in
the quartz. Samples of the ore are
said to have assayed as high as
$500 a ton
Two horses owned by j. N Kline Of
| Mnnehaha were killed last week when
they fell into an abandoned well On
The place OF John Pegg, four mil S
northeast Of Vancouver. Kline had
r.nted the place and was pIowing n
the field whore the we'll, which was
covered with boards and dirt, was 10
Gated The first horse fell In back.
ard and drew the second after 1t.
Bones of some giant animal, prob.
ably OF prehistoric times. which no
one there is able TO Identify, were
found by Elton Armstrong In the mud
on lower North river near Raymond
Armstrong brought the massive heao
and the TWO long lower jaw bones into
Rayn 0nd for display. He said hat
The whole skeleton. as nearly ns he
could toll, would measure 80 or 40
feet long.
Land owners In the Gardena section
| filed formal request with the Walla
Walla county commissioners TO per
init The formation of an irrigation dis
trirt to take over the holdings OF the
Walla Walla Irrigation company and
repair the pipeline, The company IS
unable TO do this 1t was stated and
The line is in such condition that it
may break and cut off some 1910
ncres from water
The banks OF Chelan county gain, Il
nearly siO0OoOo in deposits betwo ~
June 30 aud October 10, according to
Statements on June 80 total dep, s.
lis we're s6.51s,2sl and 30 days later
they had Increased to s7.50s.5s7. Ey.
ery portion of the county showed a
gratifying inorouse in deposits rs
d Wen Nt w NNHNNiNt4 al tAN HAlii
time the hanhs show reduction in
the items Of loans and discounts
Lynden's two hanks are leading the
financial Institutions OF whatnom
county outside OF BelIingham in a
march towards prosperity. with the
largest deposits in their history on
the official call for October 10. de.
puslts In the local banks totalled
! ggg7a7707. the highest mark yet
reached there. while the total OF the
rural hanks of the county advanced
TO nov high point Of s2,s7s,I0tOs
Prince william Of Sweden was vel
oomed to Yakima last week by a cheer.
ug crowd 40 the Northern Pacific sta
ton he was introduced by A. 81
q hnson and told the gathering In
aaWless English. I'm glad TO see you
Pete Leweiiyn and Jess PopeIoy
ouh Bend ahingle mill operators. viii
erect a new mlll On the present site oi
popeioy shingle min Two years