The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-12-14

iecision handed down in Federal cour
Seattle by Judge Neterer.
Port Townsend claims another
health record. The health report b,
| Jity Health Officer House shows tb.
iverage resident death age for the
calendar year, to December | tn have
been 6S years and nine months.
Repairs to the Sultan river nine
Inc. supplying Everett with water
lave been completed, and the regular
low resumed. The break occurred
lear the dam in the Sultan capvon
Ind was caused by rock slide.
Clark V. Savidge, state land com.
missioner, who has been under strong
pressure for some time to induce him
o become candidate for governor
IN the republican ticket, has definite
announced his decision not tn he.
,ome a candidate.
Damages of $4,000 are asked Of
Grover Hershberger of Ridgefield nv
Bessie A. Fits, widowed mother of
Jesse Fits, sixteen-year- old Ridgefield
,outh. who was shot while engaged
With other Ridgefield youths In plav.
ng pranks on Halloween evening. ac.
;ordng to papers filed in superior
sourt at Vancouver.
CANT ling cases have been some.
thing of rarity in the supreme court
for considerable time, but a recent
decision affirms conviction in Pacific
county of Glenn Everitt on the charge
Of operating a gambling game COM
monty known as blackjack"
The Washington Fir Lumber com.
pany has closed a deal for 100. OO0..
600 feet of timber and the railway and
sawmill site Of the M. T. OConnell
Lumber company at Winlock. Clear
ing OF the ground for erection of
6O,O00foot capacity sawmill has al
ready begun.
Continuation of the Scent street car
fare in Everett for another 90-day ex-
detrimental period, is provided in
notice received by the state depart
ment OF public works from the Puget
Sound International Railway & Pow
er company The extension became
effective November 30.
Twenty-eight motor vehicle opera
tors lost their licenses to drive ,
through cancellation in the courts for
violation of the motor vehicle law dur
ing November, according to the report
OF Fred j. Dibble. director of licenses.
Most of the cancellations were for
driving while intoxicated.
Swept by strong southerly gale, a
fire which broke out in the dry kiIns |
DR. the planning mill of Morrison Bros
'awmill at Anacortes, swept through |
he five dry kilns. planning mill, lum-
Der yards and threatened the main |
'awmill. The loss was estimated at |
between $250,O00 and 100000.
Representative Summers has re.
commended appointment of the fol.
owing Washington postmasters: T.
.. kammerer, Hanford; James C.
3levins, Naches; Arthur B. Cass, Con-
lell; R. p. Fisher, Garfield; Fred B.
ioldsworthy, Rosalia; James Lane,
toslyn. and James H. Adams, Waits
'urg.
A report of the West Coast Lumber.
lens association shows that all pre.
ious records for the northwest INN
ering industry have been broken dur.
lg the present year. Production for
lie forty -eight-week period this year
as totaled 4,S93,O25,652 feet: shin.
ents, 5,O2S.027,S16 feet; and sales.
SCI ,3O1,7 feet. Production has
cen 19.49 per cent greater than dur.
g the same period in 1922. 81 81 per
mt above the 1921 figure and 3l54
'r cent above the 1920 figure. Shin.
ents have been 1889 per cent above
st years total, 1929 per cent above
~, anu oo.l4 per cent above 1920 |
ew business is 1851 per cent ahead
last year, 1878 per cent above 1921.
i'd "a per cent above 1920.
With reports practically all in, seed
heat loans furnished farmers of
rought counties Of eastern Washing.
IN for fall sowing .otal 20,559 bushels
osting S1S,527.u. Applications total,
IS. On the total of $61,136.6S
aned on seed wheat for last springs
'wing, repayments of $53,75O.5S with
l55O33 interest have been made to
ate, according to the figures of the
apartment Of conservation and de-
elopment.