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Washington News SPOKANE.-Three officers of the Columbia Basin Irrigation LeaguePresident Hervey Lindley of Seattle, Fred Adams of Spokane, federal director, James Kyle, Oregon, member of the board of trustees have gone to Washington in anticipation of the report of the Department of the Interior on its investigation into the feasibility of the Columbia Basin irriga tion project, it was announced at the league's offices here. WALLA WALLA.E. C. Burlingame said recently that the percentage of twins in sheep is running higher than usual. Hothouse lambing is well under way, and on ranges will begin soon. The increase is about 120 per cent. OLYMPIA. - Washington contains only 4 per cent of all United States registered Holsteins, yet over 25 per cent of all Holstein records of production are held by Washington Holsteins. MOUNT RAINIER-Motorists driving to Mount Rainier National Park during winter months hereafter will be required to equip their automobiles with anti-skid chains, O. A. Tomlinson, park superintendent, an nounced recently. Officials at the park have had difficulty in keeping the road open due to cars becoming stalled when drivers get off the hard packed snow in the middle of the road. OLYMPIA.-Belief that liquidation of the defunct Scandinavian-American Bank of Tacoma can be completed and final dividends to depositors distributed by the middle of the coming summer, was expressed by J. C. Minshull, supervisor of banking, here recently. The remaining assets of the institution, aggregating about a million dollars, can probably be turned into money by that time. OLYMPIA. - Automobile owners with 1924 Idaho license plates will be permitted to use them until March 15, Fred J. Dibble, director of licenses, notified peace officers in Washington recently. The extension of the time on last year's plates is due to an action by the Idaho legislature. OLYMPIA-When Governor Roland Hartley signed senate bills Nos. 47 and 60, he made available $17,360,000.70 for expenditures on state highways within the next biennium. Of this sum, which is pertty generally dis tributed over the state, a great por tion will be spent in Western Washington on the Olympic and Pacific Highways. CHEHALIS. - Richard Nicholas, Theodore Bowles, Everett Schesstrom, Harry Dean, Clarence Hurlbert, Morris Evan, Kenneth Shelby, Thomas McDonald and Paul Danzer, pupils of the eighth grade of the State Training School here, passed the state eighth grade examination, Schesstrom leading all Lewis County students in credits. SUMNER.-Ralph Wright, employe of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company, was seriously burned recently when he came in contact with a power line bearing 60,000 volts while working near Dieringer, two miles east of here. Wright was treated here by Dr. B. J. Gilshannon be fore. being taken to the Valley Hospital in Puyallup, where it is said he would recover. MONTESANO.-The board of directors of the Grays Harbor Dairy men's Association has elected W. J Berns, Wynooche Valley, as president for the coming year, according to an announcement made here recently. The other officers are: A. A. Siefert, Ford Prairie, first vice-president; Willard Turner, Wishkah Valley, second vice-president, and John P. Murphy. Montesano, secretary and manager. SEATTLE-Volunteer helpers and the game warden of the district of St. Petersburg, Alaska, have distributed consignments of hay received from Seattle to thousands of starving deer along the beach and on the Duncan Canal. Twenty-two deer were found dead along the canal. The highest mortality was among fawns and bucks. The warden reported very few wolves, indicating the wolves found deer in the hills easy prey. Ef forts are being made to feed the does. EVERETT.-Carrying on a campaign to raise in Everett and Snohomish County $60,000 necessary to provide fair buildings and a race course at its Silver Lake grounds, teams of the North Pacific Livestock Show Association have obtained pledges for $43,200 No solicitations have yet been made in the county towns.
