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The county commissioners at Davenport recently fixed the scale of wages or county road workers as follows: Trucks, 75 cents an hour, owner to furnish gasoline and oil; caterpillar and grader men, 50 cents an hour; horses, 75 cents a day; truck drivers, 35 cents an hour; bridge crew foremen, 50 cents an hour; bridge crew Iaborers, 35 cents an hour; laborers, other than bridge men, 30 cents an hour. A civil war is on in Yakima over the policy of the city commissioners in sending out unemployed men to trim the shade trees of the city. Home owners declare that their trees are being butchered and that the city has no jurisdiction over them. The commissioners assert that the pruning is being done scientifically and that It is necessary to provide work. Poor old Dobbin is a victim of a hit-and-run driver. Some one noticed an unnatural hump in the left shoulder of a tramp horse recently at Tacoma. An operation revealed it was caused by the door handle of an automobile, imbedded there, presumably in a collision with a motor car. Depositors of the People's State bank of Walla Walla, in the hands of the state banking department, since September 14, will receive checks for their first dividend, 10 per cent, January 25, the liqiudator announced. About $96,300 will be disbursed to about 3000 claimants. Through the courtesy of SuperIntendent H. H. Helwig of the Lehigh Portland Cement company, the rod and gun club of Metalin Falls has been accorded the use of the old company barn, which has been unused for several years, as an indoor rifle range. The Puget Island branch of the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective union is circulating petitions urging the Washington legIslature to advance the date of the opening of the Columbia river commercial salmon fishing season from May 1 to April 15. Hungry elk in the Hansen ferry district are damaging hay fields, the farmers report. An investigation is under way to determine the person or persons who are said to be shooting the elk, and they will be prosecuted on the wastage act. Scrip in denominations of $1, $3 and $10 will be issued by the Cheney school district in exchange for warants held in trust by the board of directors. The purpose is to aid receivers of school warrants in meeting their obligations. Alleging she has sinus infection because of injuries received when a folding closet bed closed up, while she was sleeping on it. Amalie Wolff has brought suit for $15,278 damages against G. H. Gustafsen of Aberdeen. J. J. Crawford, Yakima. valley rancher, has started breaking bulls and steers to harness. He intends to use at least 10 per cent of them to pull plows, harrows and other farming machinery. Blind for 20 years but with his eyesight restored by an operation three months ago, Edward Turner Bates, 87 years old, is dead, at his a home in Spokane. Death was by a pneumonia resulting from a cold. e C Stockholders of the Old Union C Ditch company, organized 50 years ago in Yakima county, have celebrated its 50th anniversary and approved now articles of in D ation. p V
