Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-28
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The honey crop of the Yakima val
ley for the last season brought $751;
600 to bee keepers.
HI. T. Hampstead of Tacoma, is
mentioned among the dead in the
overseas casualty list.
Mrs. Tabitha Stanfield, wife o.
Henry Stanfield, who recentl ysuf-
Henry Stanfield, who recently suf-
fered paralytic stroke, is dead.
The eleventh annual wheat conven-
tion of the grain growers, shippers
and millers of the Pacific Northwest
will be held at Pullman, Wash, on
Jan. 2, and a.
One hundred pairs of trousers, a
set Of harness and six brides, all
valued at $500, comprised the loot of
burglars who entered HI. j. Tiptons
general store at Othello recently
1t is estimated from data furnished
by prominent stockmen that $4,000
steers are being fed in the Yakima
grass in the spring for the Coast mar
kets.
A small frame house occupied by
the family of Walter M. Peterson, a
coal yard employe, at Alki point, w.
Seattle, caught fire Saturday and was
destroyed, two small children per-
fishing in the flames.
Insurance for every employe in the
service whose salary does not ex-
ceed $4,000 a year, an extra months
pay for all whose salaries are not
over $500 per annum, are Christmas
gifts of the O.-W. R. & N. company
to it's many workers.
Frank Stone, Olympia fisherman,
and confessed accomplice of John F.
Gillies, former claim agent of the in
dustrial insurance commission, in
looting of the commissions funds of
more than $4,000, has been pardon
ed and released from tae penitentiary
Five indictments have been return
ed by the federal grand jury at Sc
attic in connection with the alleged
illegal operations involving the i'm
portation of liquor said to have been
directed to Logan Billingsley, Fred
Billingsley and Ora Billingsley, broth
ers.
What is said to have been the larg-
est real estate deal made in Garfield
county this season was closed re-
Gently when the j. M. Williams ranch
of 935 acres on Pataha flat was sold
to John Keats for $84,15O, or 500 an
acre. The nucleus of this tract Mr..
Williams acquired in 1879, when he
purchased a homestead relinquish-
ment from John Surratt, for $500
Initiative measures Nos. 18 and "a,
the so-called liquor bills, were defeat
ed in the recent election by the larg-
est pluralities ever returned against
booze measures in the United States,
the completed count shows. The ho-
tel mems bill, or No. 18, was downed
by vote of 231,915 against to 49,
7O4 for. The brewery bill, or No.
"a, was defeated by vote of 314,843
against to $1,000 for.
In one of six recommendations made
to the legislature in his biennial re-
port our state highway commissioner,
proposes that the state dispose of it's
five rock quarries at the earliest pos
sible date. He says the quarries have
not been in operation to any great ex-
tent during the biennium, and the
machinery is deteriorating to such an
extent that it will soon become liza
bility instead of an asset.
statement showing fines collected
from persons violating the state motor
ehicle code during the last Is months,
or since the auto law went into effect,
reveals that 10 counties have escaped
without a violation in that length Of
time. The counties in which the law
has been strictly adhered to are Clall-
am, Clarke, Ferry, Garfield, Mason,
Pacific, Pend Oreille, San Juan, Ska
mania and Snohomish. Spokane leads
n the amount of fines collected, $1285
The total fines totaled $5125 for the
entire state.
The Bank of Bickleton, 20 miles
southwest of Mabton, was robbed of
$4,000 during busines hours Friday
by lone robber, who rode into town
on horseback, held up the bank and
escaped The robber compelled S. A.
Rossier, the cashier, to hand over the
money and, after locking Rossier in
a room, mounted his horse and rode
away. The robbers abandoned horse
was found by possee 80 miles from
the scene of the robbery. Two thou