The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-10-12
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF rur
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.

Voo'oou endowment and loan fpnd /
winch constitutes the major milan.
thropic work of the p r q siotar
hood' was voted down at the final sea.
sions of the 26th biennial convention
OF the order at Seattle.
common law trusts are prohibited
rom continuing to do business in tbis
state as the result of supreme court
decision denying an application for
writ OF mandate to compel Secretary
OF State ]. Grant Hinkle to accept the
Killing of service corporations.
Three persons died in Gle Elum of
Dotulism, it was announced by DR.. II.
j. Felch, Kittitas county health Of
ficer. They were Slava Grubishich
20; Ava, IA, his brother, and Fred
Wengel, an employee on the Grubishich
farm, six miles from Gle Elum.
That James Hare, Sc, wind-fall
bucker for the River Logging com
pany, lost race for his life with
forest fire near Humptulips Sunday,
became known when his body, burn
ed beyond recognition, was found by
a searching party about three miles
south of Humptulips.
Prune growers of Clarke county will
lose nearly 100000 pounds of prunes
through lack of drier capacity, ac-
cording to Fred Brocker vice presi-
dent of the Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation. The prunes fell from
the trees in such quantities that the
| driers could not handle the fruit.
Mayor Brown and party of Seattle
city officials started Friday on tour
| of investigation of the Columbia river
] basin irrigation project. The party
| will go to Lake Pend Oreille, making
the trip by automobile with several
stops, including the mayors apple
orchard at Neppel and Spokane.
With completion of the official can
vass of the special congressional cleo
ton, Judge Sam B. Hill, Watervllle
democrat, was shown to have ma
iority of 773 over State Senator C.
e. Myers, Davenport, republican, IL
the fifth congressional district, Hilfs
total being 1888 and Myers 1880
A caravan of 1000 automobiles vii
leave Olympia on the morning OF Oct
ober 25 for the formal dedication o.
the Pacific highway. The governors
OF Oregon and Washington and othel
officials of the two states and hlgl
officials of British Columbia will &C
company the caravan, which Will d.
led by the highway patrol OF Washing
ton.
Cities operating under the commls
! atom form of government hold thei
elsctions on the first Saturday o
December, and the primaries FOR nom
| mating candidates must be held o.
| the second Monday preceding Tn
| regular municipal election, Assistan
| Attorney. General e. w. Allen inform
ed State Auditor Clausen In an opll
ion.
| Res;gnation of George c. Jewett a
managing director OF the America
l,wbeat Growers association, was al
| nounced at Spokane, effective Jam
| ary 1. Mr.. Jewett has been eiec'e
! so.ret,rv of the Federal Land pan
in Spokane, succeeding A. b. lhon
I son Mr.. Thomson has been name
| treasurer in place OF George Diene
lresigned
II An interlocutory injunction again
| the state was granted the }. a. ooy'
caad company In federal district cou
n :. rocoma in an action brought
= test the seed importation act pass
0l.v tho last session of the state leg
,.tpre The act objected 10 ny u
- concern sought to place a iiceh
fee on seeds brought into 'he '''
lid cold The seed company ave
H.. +ha act is discriminatory.
The transportation bureau oil !
.na chamber of commerce mas y
line question of parity Oh Co, ,,a
basin grain rates UP TO the ram 20 o',
,ath the request that the rates TO 10
,.nd and to Puget sound ports De
s,s.a,v eoualized. The interstt
commerce commissions reJec'ion
II nc anpeal for rehearing OF 'he /.
\ oa.e has been interpreted by
samher,s transportation bureau
,.a,,,ng the railroads from any u
CATION to maintain the eN''''
ferential.
WORD that government approval
boon obtained for the state pian
.;,o and opening the entire ~
~ way through the dense oiyn
it as the first step IN cios
the 5o.mile gap in the Olympic ~
wav looping the great penli.Su IT,
- ~ received from Governor IA
D in washington, D. c. by oe'
no" r,,,tv The approval and co-ol
y '~ 90 secretary Wallace oil the
49, ,nsrt of agriculture, ana use