Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-09-22
WASHINGTON ITEMS

John Welch, age 82, an early pio-
neer of Walla Walla, died at Leaven-
worth Sunday.
Henry Won Weinsberg, age 46, a
native of Belgium, was drowned in
Newman lake Sunday while swim
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. N. Clark, living
near Tekoa, celebrated the 5Oth an
niversary Of their wedding at the
family home recently.
Joseph Shepherd Allen, whose sud
den death occurred at Spokane re-
Gently, was born at Charlottesville,
Ind, December 6, 1849.
Two weeks more will see the last
of scent loaves of bread in Spokane,
according to statements made by
some of the leading Spokane bakers.
Marion E. Jackson, postmaster at
Bright, Wash, a country office west
of Coulee City, was arrested recent
ly charged with embezzlement of
government funds.
Mabton has a 100 per cent baby.
In the better babies contest held in
conjunction with the Hay Palace fair,
Fleeta Helen Stevens, 6-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Ste
vens, made a perfect score.
Wholesale forgery, not only of the
o.; +1,r,o 1in11or norroifc h11f nf
the printing also, was alleged at Sc
attic recently in connection with the
seizure at Maple Valley Of eight So
gallon barrels Of whisky and lis doz-
en- quarts of beer. The illicit liquor
was consigned to the Rexall phar-
macy at Maple Valley, with instruc-
tions to notify the Rexall pharmacy
at Ravensdale.
Great Northern passenger trains
have resumed operations over the
company's line between Spokane and
Seattle The line was closed over
the Cascades for several days, owing
to heavy blast covering the tracks
where tunnel is being bored near
the summit of the mountains.
A loss estimated at $4,000 was
sustained at 2 a. M, Monday, by the
International Portland Cement Co. at
Irwin, eight miles east of Spokane,
when three buildings of the plant
were destroyed and fourth partial
ly burned in fire, the cause of
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The best yield of club wheat on a
large acreage reported in Whitman
county was secured by E. J. Schnase
near Uniontown, whose 260 acres of
little club wheat returned go bushels
to the acre. Mike Schultheis also
reports a yield of so bushels to the
acre on 11O acres of bluestem wheat.
What is probably the largest jew
elry robbery in Spokane in recent
of Mrs. Cynthia Langley. The in
trinsic value of the jewelry would
probably reach $4,000, according to
the police, but it is put beyond price
by the family because of associations.
Ora Holler Saturday repeated her
record of last year by winning the
greatest number of prizes in vege-
tables shown at the annual garden
and Industrial exhibition of the Yak
ina city schools She took first on
tomatoes, second on pumpkins and
yellow corn and third on potatoes.
There were upward of 200 exhibitors
represented in the displays.
The largest yield of wheat reported
in Douglas county this year was that
of 45-acre field of A. E. Mclean Of
the Pearl district, near Wenatchee.
The field made 1892 bushels, or So
bushels to the acre. Two years ago
Mr.. Mclean sent to the state college
for bushel of wheat, from which he
raised last year enough to seed the
As acres. At the present price Of
wheat, the crop brought $65 an acre
and $4,000 for the plot.
The largest military review ever
held in the state of Washington was
staged Sunday at American lake,
near Tacoma. Fifteen thousand per-
sons witnessed it. Governor Lister
addressed the officers and men of
the regiment. A sham battle was
put on in which blank cartridges
were used. Close order drills and
bayonet drills were also on the pro-
gram. The work of mastering out
is going on rapidly and there is a
possibility of the troops going home
in x,oolr