Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-02-25

spend abroad
Ellis A. Lawrence, 26, arrested Al
Spokane, confessed to staying Eman
uel Rasmussen at Enumclaw. Ras
mussen was killed week before
Christmas
General Joseph d. Leitch has taker
command OF the Fifth brigade ant
Vancouver barracks at Vancouver. He
has been in command of the Eighth
brigade, Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta, Ga
Confiscation of two shipments oI
opium with an estimated valuation al
contraband retail prices at nearly
100000, and arrest of several mem
bers of an alleged smuggling ring, was
announced at Spokane.
The March Construction company
Spokane. only bidder on the job Oh
surfacing two miles of road and bridge
highway No. 81. north and west OF
Clyde, in Walla Walla county, was Civ
en- the contract for S4OSO.
Construction OF an Indian hospital
on the Yakima reservation will be
started by the interior department
July 1. The old Fort Simcoe boarding
school will be remodeled for the Yaki-
ma hospital at cost of $50 900.
After selecting Yakima as the next
convention city and electing officers
for 1928, the Washington State Bot.
tiers association closed its convention
at Bellingham. w. H. McCracken of
Anacortes was elected president.
Completing the acceptance of the
new administration building of the
capitol group at Olympia from the
Sound Construction & Engineering
company, State Auditor C. w. Claus
sen signed warrant for S656 SO6.O2.
Forest school district No 205 OF
Lewis county, whose $4,000 school bond
issue was rejected at Olympia by the
state. due to legal technicallties, gave
an overwhelming vote in favor OF val
idating the bonds at a special election
Nodule Point military reservation
en- Morrostone island, Admiralty inlet,
will be sold under sealed bids to BE-
opened March 4. The reservation con
tsins IFS acres and was obtained in
1910 as a site for coast defenses never
erected.
The Cowlitz county game commits.
sion has placed an order for 100000
cut-throat trout fry and 25O00O east
orn brook trout fry. and Game Warden
Leichhardt also thinks that 100000
rainbow trout fry will be available for
the county this year.
Charging that at various times since
October, 1925, several railroad lines
lave failed TO assess log rates in ac
cordance with the schribner "decimai
c. rate prescribed by tariffs, the state
department of public works has an
nounced that thorough investigation
is to be made.
Only about 8 per cent of the timber
cut in Oregon and Washington in 1926
was cut from national forest lands.
says a report issued by the United
States forest service, North Pacific
district office. Portland. The timber
cut during the year on national forest
lands was valued at s1,OS7. .3Si93. OF
which s679 ,66722 worth was cut in the
II national forests of Oregon and
s4OZSS771 worth was cut in the eight
national forests of Washington
Production of lumber by 10 west
coast mills for the week ended Feb
ruary IL totaled 74,17S.G27 feet. com
pared to 67,267.771 feet by a mills
during the previous week. according
to the weekly report of the West
Coast Lumbennens association.
DR.. Henry suzzallo. ex.president OF
the University Gf Washington. and
Mrs. Suzzalo, departed from San Fan
cisco on the steamer Sierra for va
cation trip to Australia They were
accompanied by Oscar a. Feehter. g
banker OF Yakima, and Mrs. Feohter
The quota for the citizens militar,
training camp. which viii be held at
vancouverb arracks, June is TO July
Il, has been cut from $40 to 375. An
infantry citizens military training
camp will be held at Camp Lewis
which will reduce the number assign
"a to Vancouver.
Forcing herself into shallow well
it'll an opening so small it would
ave been practically impossible for
nyone to have pushed her in and so
aaliow she could have held herself
bove water by standing erect, Mrs.
larry Elizabeth Erb. So. OF Tieton,
lmmitted suicide.
The balance in the treasury of state
nds sor the week ending February
shows a slight increase over the