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WASHINGTON NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Efforts to abolish the death penalty in Washington failed when the house defeated the Peterson-Griffin bill by a vote of 60 to 32. Decision to continue Yakima's chamber of commerce drive for $27,000, of which only $24,000 has been subscribed, has been made. Dentists of southwest Washington and of Clatsop and Columbia counties in Oregon will hold a one-day convention in Longview on April 8. Charles W. Ring, Spokane mill man, was instantly killed when he fell between logs and was crushed at the McGoldrick Lumber company's mill pond. Commissioners of Thurston county have purchased for $29,321.92, 214 acres on Bush Prairie, four miles south of Olympia, as a site for a municipal airport. The Wilson Creek State bank, which closed three months ago as a result of the Herrick bankruptcy, has reopened, with approximately $100,000 in deposits. Regular daylight service has been resumed at the Maryhill ferry across the Columbia river. It is not expected that night service will be resumed for some time. A jury in federal court at Tacoma has found Dr. John Gibson Sargent of Centralia guilty of violating the federal narcotic laws on all three counts against him. As a bid for the Pacific Northwest passenger business the Canadian Pacific railway will cut the running time of its fast transcontinental trains an hour and a half. More than 150 fashionably dressed men and women of Seattle were held prisoners for three hours when 16 federal prohibition officers raided a roadhouse just north of Seattle. Len Dillman, 69, pioneer of the Big Bend country, was killed recently when his car ran off a culvert six miles north of Coulee, dropping 10 feet and breaking his neck. A herd of approximately 250 elk which have for the past year ranged within 40 miles of Bremerton is being rapidly thinned by predatory animals, according to hunters and trappers. Harry M. Dyer, deputy horticultural inspector at Walla Walla for several years, has filed his resignation effective March 15 and will be succeeded by Bert Tucker, formerly of Imbler, Dr. Marriage licenses issued in Vancouver in February totaled 152, compared with 132 in February, 1928. The to tal for two months this year was 322, compared with 288 for the same period last year. The first concerted effort to bring back Palouse county soil to its original productivity by the use of commercial fertilizers will be made this spring by farmers of the Whelan district, north of Pullman. Attempting to build a fire in the furnace, using kerosene, Miss Elizabeth Bandy, high school senior and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bandy, was probably fatally burned at Wilbur recently. Wrapped in a neat package, $29 in silver taken in a holdup of the Miller Service station at Everett was returned to station operators a few days ago with a note saying: "Returning your money. Am sorry we took it." Decasto E. Mayer of Seattle, suspected of three homicides and who has spent most of the last 16 years in various prisons and jails, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life on charges of being an habitual criminal. The board of county commissioners, e governing the dikes on Puget island in the Columbia river below Longview, have posted signs prohibiting