The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-12-21

Diking and drainage district No. %
OF Skagit county is not entitled to
certain state tidelands lying within
the district, according to an opinion
rendered to Land Commissioner Saw
idge by Attorney General Dunbar.
With competition of the dredging
and installation of the gridiron actual
construction began at Everett Monday
on the Weyerhaeuser Timber COM
pany's new hemlock cutting plant. The
estimated cost of the new plant is
$3.50, 900. ..,.
The supreme court has sustained
the action OF Fred ]. Dibble as director
OF licenses in refusing to allow nine
dentists who had failed in two sue
cessive examinations to take third
in order to obtain certificates to prac-
tice in the state.
Roy C. Lyle, state prohibition direc-
tor, was summoned to Washington, ID.
c., to give his version of the charges
that have been made against his ad-
ministration. and particularly against
certain of his subordinates. The sum-
| mons came from National Director
HAYNES.
So extensive and thorough have
| been the campaigns of orchard mice
| poisoning carried on in the orchard
districts of Chelan. Okanogan, va
kima. Grant and Douglas counties that
with the cleaning up of the campaign
this month it is expected to have the
destructive orchard pest practically
eliminated.
Covering legal defects in former
order, the Snohomish county commits
sioners have issued a new order ex.
Guiding lumber, logging, milk and
freight trucks from sixteen dirt roads
in the county from December Is to
April 1, 1924. Truck loggers are now
using the roads under a temporary in
junction issued out of superior court.
That the amount Of timber blown
down in the Olympic forest last week
would just about equal the annual tree
mortality rate, and was not serious
was the statement by District Forest
Ranger Chris Morgenroth. The growth
of standing timber in the Olympic for
est in one year would be ten times
greater than the mortality rate every
year, he said.
Shortage of $11,530 in the account:
of Ellensburg, caused by fraudulent
. warrants to the amount of $10,913 ant
' $617 in interest paid, covering de
t falcations of b. l.. Titus, former cit!
4 clerk, who recently killed himself a
D Seattle, was shown in special repor
filed with the encouragement by Al
|. bert Helander, division of municipa
q corporations inspector.
r Mrs. Jane Carter, 80, Indian widoy
e of John Carter, who died in April
1919, has won legal battle Of NOR
e than four years. duration in which sh
!. fought for the $4,000 timber allotmen
d which belonged to her husband, az
d cording to word r ceived by w.
Sans, superintendent of the Quinaul
Indian reservation, from the Unite
States department Of the interior.
:. The executive committee of tn
a. Yakima Valley Reclamation league
Judge Ralph Kaufman, EllensburI
chairman, will urge upon congress tn
: need for immediate appropriation o,
of the United States reclamation r.
. volving fund money to enable tn
reclamation service to carry on cant
construction during the fiscal yes
y 1925 on the proposed Yakima projec
First results of the King count
grand jury inquiry into the moral co
~ ditions of Seattle and the county wei
~ declared when Prosecuting Attorne
Douglas filed abatement proceeding
IS against IA apartment and lodgir
. houses in which, according to II
u grand jury's evidence. vice has bee
&c Furnishing. Fully as many more col
IL plaints will be filed within the ne
few days.
IT. The wing dam across the Snail
H. river, built by the Burbank irrigati'
ne district, has been completed at co
w of s24,5O0, as against an estimate
at $4,000. With low water in the Snal
river the canal which supplies wat
&c for irrigation carries 1874 feet
ne water, where before 10 feet was
90 maximum during high water. T
it. dam was built to save large su
m each year for electric power to pur
the water. N~~"