The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-23
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF ~.
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.

NeAS hVOo were 3l3ZU
rive new factories were established
III seattle in October, according to :.
ouiietn issued by the Manufacturers,
association.
a school and port election for tba
purpose OF electing one port commits.
s'oier ana one school director will he
held in Vancouver December 2
Seven arrests, three stills, 1875 gal.
IONS Oh liquor and hundreds of gal
ions OF mash were the net result of a
raid by the Seattle police dry squad
Grays Harbor county commissioners
have accepted the new bridge over
the Humptulips river on the OCEAN
beach highway. The bridge cost s4O.-
600. ~
The Northwest Hay association has
received orders to ship by ocean
freight 200 tons of alfalfa from Yakima
via Seattle to Jersey City and Brook
lyn.,
Bank clearings from January 1 to
october l, 1923, in Spokane, amounted
to $476,293,575, an increase of nearly
S5O,000,0O0 over the same period in
1922.
Fire Of undetermined origin laid
a quarter of block in the center OF
Camas in ruins and did damage that
was estimated to run from 100000 to
$4,000.
A committee at Deer Park raised ST..
500 for gymnasium and community
hall, and ground, 272 by 80 feet, for
site and additional athletic grounds
opposite the high school.
According to estimates by Benjamin
H. Snodgrass OF the government en-
ployment bureau at Wenatchee, $4,000
persons worked in the apple harvest
of north central Washington this sea-
son.
Frank Kaufman, 70, Whatcom
county pioneer, was instantly killed
near his home at Custer when the
automobile he was driving crashed in
to a logging truck parked on the high
way.
An ordinance creating an improve
ment district for paving Morgan street,
the main business street in Daven-
port, was passed by the city council.
The estimated cost Of the paving will
be S24,11S.
Miss Clara Jahnke, president Of the
Washington State Education associa-
ton, estimates that between so and
100 schools in the state will close be-
fore the end of the school year for
want of funds.
President e. o. Holland of the state
college at Pullman will sail from New
York City this week to study changed
economic conditions in England,
France, Germany, Russia, and possibly
Czecho Slovakia.
Douglas county commissioners have
selected o. r. Hopewell as prosecut-
ing attorney to fill the unexpired term
of Sam Driver, who has resigned TO
become private secretary to Congress
man Sam B. Hill.
Ivan Bishop, register-receiver or the
United States land office at vancouver
since October 1, has resigned, and Il.
M Mumford, chief clerk, is acting reg
ister-receiver pending the appointment
of Mr.. Bishops successor.
verdict on. a charge of manslaugh-
fer against Winifred Gibbons, VINO al
oitted that she fired shot that Kill
cd Harry Lacelle at roadhouse near
Seattle. October 7, was reached ny
q iurv in superior court at Seattle.
George w. Hendricks, age oz' for
MANY years a resident oil SPOKANE
where he was land examiner for the
uvpotheek bank, hanged himseil IN al
abandoned shack on the Coiumpia
river 81 miles northeast oil water
vile
Walking six miles for a doctor anu
medicine for a sick sister brau WIZ
,,omson became exhausted and drop
nod upon the tracks of the MILWAUKEE,
railroad near Port Angeles ana iei,
asleep. A train coming by struck anu
killed him.
Mrs Violet Davis of Seattle, wound
- ,rban Samuel II. Short, VINO mas
- spsnended as a patrolman IN lhe
Seattle police department urea lou,
s,ots October II at man suspeo'e.
81 shop lifting, has filed claim against
the city for $53,Olo'
Flour shipments from Seattle lof 'ne
.o,, .. .,nths of 1928 show an III
oraasa of 391 900 barrels over the snip
napts of the same period IN 1870 az
.a,no 70 figures compiled by Tue
marcbants' exchange of the 0ea''''
chamber of commerce
Members of the Northwest nTa' t FL,
...a ossociation will join WIN .n'
'"'o ~ nationwide campaign
ram - ..,aa the tourist and home au
v vs. of this state accoT accord, ,ses ~