The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-09

Empire. The vote was 26 for the
bonus and IT'S against.
Orrin Griffith, convicted recently at
bellingham Of manslaughter in con.
nection with the death of Hobart Ham.
lin, aged S, has been sentenced to from
one to 20 years in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla. The boy was killed by
an automobile driven by Griffith.
Jesse Fits, Rigefield youth, was ser.
iously wounded and Ferdinand Weber !
and Leon Potter slightly wounded
when Grover Hurshbarger is alleged
to have fired at the lads with o shot
gun as they were going through an
alley back of his premises in Ridge.
field.
Though number of extra watch
men were placed on duty at Wapato,
burglars broke down the front door of
the towns leading pool hall, rolled
out 400-pound safe and hauled it by
truck TO the river, about mile away
The robbers got about $3.50 for their
nights work.
Loans aggregating $1,250,000 to az.
ricultural interests Of the Pacific
Northwest have been made by the Fed
eral intermediate Credit Bank of Spo-
kane since its organization several
months. ago, according to report
made by Ward M. Buckler. manager Of
the institution.
Olympia civic organizations. includ.
Ing the American Legion, the Cham
Der Of Commerce, the labor unions.
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, will spend
Armistice Day in Yelm. helping the
Legion of that town to build an audi
torium, which they expect to construct
in a single day.
A permit was issued to the Buchan-
an Lumber company Of Olympia, by
Marvin Chase, supervisor of hydraul.
les, to divert and appropriate the wa
tiers of Schneider's creek in Thurston
county, for mill and boiler supply
The Improvement will cost between
$4,000 and $1,000.
More than 375,OOO.OOO feet Of lum
Der will be the total export mark FOL
! this year by north Pacific coast mills
according to statistics announced IL
Seattle by officials Of the Douglas FIJI
Exploitation & Export company, al
organization comprising the majorit!
of the export mills.
r Officers Of the annual Brethren con
. ference of the Pacific German Congre
gational churches, in session at Walls
Walla, were elected as follows Rev
H. Hagelgauz Of Portland, chairman
/ 1 Conrad Walter of odessa, vice-pres
. dent: George Frank, Walla Walla, SCI
rotary; J. VAIL Of Lind. treasurer. <
+ Increased output and sales were r.
. ported to the West Coast Lumbe
mems association by 129 mills for las
;. week. Production was 106,7O6,6l
feet, % per cent above normal outp'
with an eight-hour shift, as compare
= with a 20 per cent advance the pr
H. ceding week. Sales we're 67.506.5t
. feet.
:. Several hundred Indians drawn fro
a score of tribes throughout the mort
west attended the convention Of Il
IA Northwest Federation OF American !
10 dams held at Everett. The conve
y tion was called to petition the 60
u eminent for compensation for la'
u taken under the terms of form
treaties. +:
w A school district Of the second ella
se cannot unite with a district OF t
u. first class to form q union high scho
or M the attorney generals office 1
w. forms the state superintendent OF p'
lie instruction. A union high schs
ng district may, however, be formed frt
an two or more contiguous districts
To- the second and third class.
at wounded world war veterans
an Cushman hospital, Tacoma, have
ceived as personal mementoes pno
an aranbs Of the late President Hard
pc and Mrs. Harding, taken when
he presidential party visited them J
of summer. The presentations we're mi
tie nv Colonel ]. r. Dean. chairman
nip the state disqualification committee
Thousands Of choice Yakima
yer Mas were mailed from Yakima
ON no,nts all over the country as part
zen the observance of national apple We
cd, The containers were s-inoh cube pa
Ter. hoard boxes, each of the SIX 81
VS. containing a letter forming the "
"yakima," with q line descriptive
ron the apple beginning with each let
ON State and federal inspectors me-
red Tacoma and came to an asreemen
of grade wheat, partly damaged In
to field by dampness. to the best III
,ity cats Of the grower. Instead OF
inc carload lots on the basis
on .amples of good and bad wheat
fax Grade will be based on good WI
an a. the center Of the sack, and then
ned weight of the rotten grain VIII De
Mr.. Quoted from the purchase price.
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