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the boiler are believed to have caused
the explosion.
A postcard mailed in France Janu
airy 4, 1919, was received by T. g
Glover, Oakville hotel proprietor. las
week. Philip Merry, Oakville resi-
dent, who mailed the card. has beer
home ten years.
Explosion of kitchen stove shortly
after B. B. Shepherd started fire II
1t at Yakima recently, threw pieces II
all directions and knocked Shepherd
down. Burning fuel thrown about the
house started fire. Frozen pipes
caused the blast.
An order vacating HOO acres Of
oyster reserve tidelands in the state
has been signed by Land Commission
er Savidge under the terms Of an act
Of the last legislature. Owners OF
abutting lands will have preference
right to purchase.
Jim julius, last surviving member
of the Indian tribe that roamed the
lower Columbia region in the days
when Hudson's Bay company was q
dominant influence in the northwest,
Is dead at the age of 102 years. Death
came recently at Cathlamet.
A federal free employment bureau
will be opened in Walla Walla March
for eight months. A. H. Johnson, in
charge for the past two years, again
will be manager. Twenty-eight hun
dred and forty-six persons found en-
ployment through this bureau last
year.
Ravages of psittacosis, widely her
aided by newspapers all over the coun-
try as parrots disease" are not new
to Yakima. Over half dozen persons
in Yakima, according to Yakima ply
sicians, suffered from the disease dur
ing the winter of 1917 and one of them
died.
Rev. ]. G. Mergler, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church at Gen.
tralia, has announced that construc-
ton will start about April i on a new
church building to cost $4,000. The
new building will replace a frame
structure that has seen service for
40 years.
Without water and with city plants
and many private residences unable
to obtain heat because of water short
age, Everett faced a serious situation
for few days last week. Freezing
of pipes bringing water to the city
resulted in complete drying up of the
city reservoirs.
Charging that Aberdeen has been
run for years by a small group of
grating politicians, Mayor Griffith
has thrown down the gauntlet by de.
flying councilmen who refuse to con-
firm the appointment of Tom Giezen.
taner as chief of police. Griffith was
elected on cleanup platform.
A party of ski enthusiasts plying
their sport in the valley east of va
colt, in northeastern Clark county, en-.
countered group of 20 deer roaming
the valley in quest Of food over the
snow laden territory. County Game
Warden Morrow said he would send
truck load of hay to the territory.
An indignation meeting of citizens
was held in connection with the city
council meeting at Elma when a dele
cation protested the proposed raise
Of rates which the Washington Tele-
phone & Utilities company had just
announced. The city promised to
take up the matter with the state pub
lie works department.
Extensive data on the costs of the
Pasco-Kennewick toll bridge has been
compiled by officials of the bridge
company, at the request Of Samuel
Humes, state highway director. pre-
liminary to its purchase by the state.
1t is expected that purchase of the
toll span will be entered in the 1881
budget for highways.
Several drastic changes in the ad-
ministration of the common school
system have been recommended by
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction Sowalter. Among the sug-
gested changes are the adjustment
of the office Of state superintendent,
creation of central board of COM
mon education and the elimination of
party nominations from school cleo
tions.
Prices on the new two-year contract
between the Grays Harbor Dairymen's
association are the highest ever OBJ.
tanned by Montesano producers, des-
pite the present low price OF butter.
fat Prices for whole milk, pound
butterfat, at the farm, are fixed as
follows: For December, January and
February the whole milk prices will
be " cents; March, October and No.
vember, 70 cents; April and July, "a
cents; May and June, 60 cents; Aug
ust and September, 65 cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Hightower, resi-
dents of Fords Prairie, celebrated
their 5Sth wedding anniversary few
days ago. They were married at