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less than those of July. Toll for August totaled receipts $1250.98 $49,005.05. of 1925 The report for eight months showed an increase over the same months in 1924 of $12,024.68. Indicating the extensive operation& planned by the Weyerhaeuser Timber decompany for their Cowlitz county velopment they have asked the Northern Pacific Railway company to provide two spur tracks, each capable of holding 50 cars, at the juncture of the Northern Pacific and Columbia and Cowlitz railway tracks north of Kelso. Charges of embezzlement filed against seven prominent Kelso citizens by A. Ruric Todd, deposed mayor of Kelso, were dismissed by Justice McCoy in Castle Rock on preliminary hearing, due to absence of testimony witand failure of the complaining ness, Todd, to appear. A charge of perjury filed against State Senator Barnes was also dismissed. As evidence that the Seattle municipal hydro-electric plant on the Skagit river is in successful operation, William Hickman Moore, city councilman, announced the total production of the first year of operation of the plant at 150,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy. This electrical energy, Moore declared, represented gross earnings of approximately $3,000,000. Announcement was made at Seattle that Raymond B. Wilcox, president of the Wilcox-Hayes company of Port land, Or., had been accepted by James of A. Farrell of New York, president the United States Steel corporation and the national foreign trade council, as one of 92 executives of the council. The organization met in its 12th annual convention in Seattle June 24-26. Members of the Washington Growers' Packing corporation of Clarke county will this year receive an advance of 5 cents a pound on all prunes under 50's in size and 4 cents dea pound on the smaller sizes, on livery at the packing plant. This is the largest advance payment ever made by the association. The way sizes run this year nearly all growers will receive 5 cents. Timber sold OD the national for ests of Oregon and Washington for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1925, amounted to 704,386,000 board feet, valued at $1,449,898.48, according to the report of the forest service relating to the national forests of Ore gon and Washington. The national forests of the two states contain 217, 745,196,000 board feet of standing tim ber, according to service estimates. Mrs. William Bryant of Grand Mound is in St. Luke's hopital at Cen tralia with serious injuries sustained in when a one-pound shell exploded the Bryant home. Mrs. Bryant found the shell in a field where the 41st tank company, Centralia's national Not guard unit, had been practicing. knowing it was loaded, she carried it home and placed it on the dining room table, whence it rolled to the floor exploding. Contending that the fair valuation of their properties should not exceed $1,174,372, representatives of the Grays Harbor Railway & Light com pany of Aberdeen appeared before the state board of equalization at Olympia at The valuation was apportioned $233.221 to the street railway system and $941,151 for the power system The valuation placed on the properties by the state tax commission amounted to $1,591,937. The Northern Pacific railway has announced the publication of a new booklet containing statistics and photographs of the general resources for of Washington and northern Idaho distribution to prospective settlers The booklet stated that "Washington is in the corn belt" and pictures show ed tall corn on a farm of S. D. Cor nell at Grandview, which broke the world's record with 57,610 pounds of silage from one acre. Failure of the Bank of Pasco to its doors Friday and action of the open directors in turning the bank over to the state supervisor of banking for of liquidation. was announced at the fice at Olympia, of H. C. Johnson bank supervisor. The Bank of Pasco Mr. Johnson states, is in difficulties to owing to short crops and inability realize upon frozen assets. Deposit liability is approximately $380,000, i is stated by the department, with capi tal of $50,000 and surplus of $10,000 No estimate is made as to probable re