The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-12-07
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.


the opening of new bank at Ilwaco.
Freight rates on hay and grain were
the subject of hearing Wednesday
held at Spokane.
A poultry school for Lewis county
! and southwest Washington will be
held at WinIock December to 10.
Burglars broke into the postoffice
at Buena in Yakima county and es-
! caped with S35 in money and stamps.
Teninos annual city election will
be held December 4, when two coun-
cilmen and a city treasurer Will be
| chosen.
Seven hundred cows are listed in
| the Lewis county COW testing asso-
citation, according to County Agent r.
G. Fowler.
Alvin Skidmore. 15year-old high
school boy, was struck by an unknown
motorist in Seattle and died shortly
afterward.
Richard Westin, SO, of Fairfax was
killed when his automobile plunged
over 75-foot embankment on the
Fairfax road.
Carl E. Emmett of Wenatchee has
been appointed postmaster of new
| office in Chelan county to be known
as Delicious.
Jesse +. Pearce was acquitted by
jury in superior court in Yakima of
! the murder Of W. J. Hillyer, marshal
of Zillah, on July 80 last.
| The state of Washington, with
bid of "A per cent, was highest bidder
for $S50,000 worth of Spokane county
road improvement bonds.
A bond issue of $750,000 to build
q municipal auditorium in Denny park
will be submitted to the voters of Sc
attic at the next general election.
Business at the Wenatchee postof
flee has increased to such an extent
that two additional carriers have been
allowed by the postoffice department.
| The Miners & Shelters state bank
of Northport, Stevens county, closed
by the state banking department Sep
Dtember 4, reopened Monday under a
Reorganization.
Work has been started toward re-
construction of the Fir Tree Lumber
company mill at Gregory Spur, near
Olympia, the site of the old mill that
| burned September T.
A study of plans by which the gov
| eminent of Seattle might be carried
on under city manager has been
Ibegun by a committee created by
lMayor Edwin j. Brown.
Extension Of rural route No. / from
IlChewelah to serve 200 employees of the
, Northwest Magnesite company's quar-
lries and 40 other families has been
ordered by the postoffice department
The Bellingham normal school wor
colleges and universities of the state
10y defeating the Cheney normal, win
aer of the Spokane conference title
n to 10.
IL According to a report by Director
lMcArdle of the state patrol system
there were SO fatalities from automo
bile accidents in Washington during
| October, an increase of nine over thu
aext highest record.
= Grant Harper, who for years ha!
\ oeen conducting a skunk farm nea
Ritzville, has lost all his animals. H,
1ad more than 100, but they began t.
sat each other and, fearing hydro
)hobia, he killed them.
Preparatory to the construction o
a 100000 ocean terminal for bunk
} ,ring of steamships, the Shell com
y )any of California has completed fina
letails for the purchase of an eight
acre industrial tract at Seattle.
Assessed valuation of the Seattl
school district increased from S66
IIi74,526 in 1904 to S241 734.200 in 1872:
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