The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-16
STATE EVENTS
BRIEFLY TOLD
S'rAl EVENTS OF THE
WEEK ASSEMBLED FOR
OUR READERS.

c. SCHOOLS at colville are closed be
N'e VI an epidemic of measles
handle residents will at once cree,
community hall Of two stories.
Three hundred carloads % v,,-,
apples have been shipped to Eurone
this season. " uiope
The Seattle amateur hockey associa
''on mas laid plans for a four.teon,
amateur hockey league this winter
, Few wild geese have made their an
pearance this year at their usuo,
naunts on the upper Columbia river
Malor-General Edwin Burr Babbitt
commander Of Camp Lewis. was sew
ereiy injured in an automobile accident
near Camp Lewis.
| Electors of the Hoquiam school dis.
'rict VIII be asked TO approve a Anil
levy Tor purchase of site for a schoo,
TO replace the Central grammar build.
ing.
L. j. Laswell, age 35, who resigned
as city treasurer of Colville after serv.
Ing IL months, was arrested on a
charge OF having embezzled $1S,372 of
city funds.
Little chance for car shortage in
the northwest during the remainder of
1923 is forecast in tabulation made
by 0. o. Calderhead of the department
OF public works.
According to figures given out 2,71S
cars OF apples were certified through
the north central Washington horti.
cultural office at Wenatchee during
the month of October.
Provisions Of the proposed state
safety code for an air vent at least
every 300 feet in mine tunnel were
opposed by prospectors at a safety
code hearing in Spokane.
Seven members of the Tacoma dry
oH"@u WOAO hlOoIcu vi WARRANTS
charging trespass, obtained by pro-
prietors Of social clubs recently incor-
porated and alleged by police to be
dispensing liquor.
Robbers who blew open the safe of
the bank at Johnson, in Whitman coun.
ty, escaped with s1400, pursued by
citizens. The sound of the blast arous-
ed the townspeople, who exchanged
shots with the robbers as they fled.
A. C. Shives and J. A. Veness have
purchased 100000 feet Of timber
from M. T. O'Connel and 100000
feet from the Weyerhaeuser interests
near Winlock. rhe timber will be
cut at the Veness mill south of Win
lock.
An increase Of more than las per
cent in the enrolment at Vancouver
high school since 1916 is shown in
figures submitted by the faculty. The
enrolment in 1916 was 800 and a total
of 755 have entered the school this
year.
The state college of Washington
dairy judging team won first place
again at the Pacific international Live
stock exposition at Portland. Two
years ago the Washington state col
lege team took first place and last
year second.
DR.. Howard s. Clemmer of Spokane
was elected president Of the Motion
Picture Theater Owners Of Washing
ton State at the closing session OF the
association in Seattle. Seattle was
named the headquarters for the execu-
tive offices.
The Wenatchee valley is in the
midst of harvesting the biggest apple
crop in it's history. The production
is estimated at $4,000 cars for the
Wenatchee and Okanogan valleys.
This is about one-half the estimated
ample production of the state.
Plans for improvements on the Lew
istop- Charleston interstate bridge 10
cost s42. 900 were agreed upon by state
officials of Washington and Idaho IN
a conference at Spokane. Washing
ton will contribute $4,000 and Idaho
will spend $4,000 on the bridge.
Prison-made products should not be
allowed to enter into competition Win
goods manufactured by free labor, de-
clared a resolution adopted at the SEES
s;ons of the seventh semi-annual as
semblv of the Women's Legislative
Council of Washington, which was
held in Seattle.
Virtually all the clays to be founo
l., denosits of the state of Washing
90, are described, and their uses are
outlined in book just published by
a.. University of Washington Press
written by Hewitt Wilson, professor
-, ceramics, entitled "Clays and
sbales of Washington" The book is
an exhaustive study OF the clay
resources of this state
commissioners of Yakima county
,t m White Bluffs to investigate
roads and plan with the Benton cou'