Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-05
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Mansfield.
A. J. Emmans, age "a, pioneer
of Cheney, died recently.
Horses have gone out of use in the
fire department at Walla Walla.
Apple pickers at Bridgeport are
on strike, demanding So a day.
Samuel Wade, real estate dealer,
committed suicide at Seattle recently
The new $4,000 high school build
ing was dedicated Friday night at
Pomeroy.
There are now seven cases of in
fantile paralysis in Seattle and three
schools are closed.
The hunting season opened Sun
day with poor prospects for Chinese
pheasants in Kittitas county.
At Mabton recently the new public
school teachers were given a recep-
tion by the people of the town.
A searching party from Bridgeport
",
who mysteriously disappeared.
Judge Nathan Thomas Cation, age
"a, among the oldest pioneers of the
Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B.
c., Sunday.
A heavy docket of federal cases
will be heard by the grand jury and
the entire federal court at North
Yakima this week.
A. R. Saunders was killed Sunday
about 20 miles from Walla Walla by
his cousin, Boyd Shelton, as the re-
suit of hunting accident.
The 2-year-old son of Mrs. Leslie
Dyson Of Blewett was found drowned
in rain barrel, which stood at the
side of her fathers house on a farm
near Wenatchee.
John T. Ahlin and William Stude-
baker, Great Northern car repairers,
were horribly injured at Leayen-
worth recently when caught under a
car and dragged. Studebaker has
since died.
On his SOth birthday, which was
Sunday last, D. c. Corbin, veteran
railroad builder of Spokane, has no
intention of retiring from active di-
rection Of his affairs.
No longer will the five-cent loaf
of bread be sold in Olympia. This
week the Olympia bakers abolished
the twelve-ounce loaf that sells for
five cents and sell the twenty-ounce
loaf for ten cents.
M. O. Van Brocklin of Leaven-
worth has bought the dairy herd of
25 COWS, mostly Holsteins, from the
Ambrose S. Riker estate, and the
dairy equipment. The dairy is OIL
Gated in the Icicle country
Seattle's city health department
has ordered the Immaculate Concep-
ton school, a Catholic institution,
and the Beacon Hill public school
closed for 10 days on account of a
case of infantile paralysis having
been discovered among the pupils of
each.
The Seattle Shipbuilding company
has been incorporated, with capital
of 100000, by s. F. Racine and G.
T. Morgan of Seattle, who said they
represented eastern capital which
would erect in Seattle Immediately
shipbuilding plant to construct 1000
ton steel ships.
Preliminary work of mastering out
of the Washington troops at Ameri-
can Lake is going on rapidly now,
and most Of the equipment has been
checked in. Payrolls have been sign
ed, and clothing allowances figured.
The troops were paid Tuesday and
will leave for home the last of the
week.
At the Washington State college,
Pullman, six hundred men have al
ready reported for military drill, the
largest number in the history of the
college, despite the fact that fully
$50 students have not yet registered.
The total registration of regular stu
dents has reached 1851 and will prob
ably climb to 1400 or over, this week.
The Great Northern will not build
any more lines in Washington as long
as the taxes are as high as they are
now, was the reply Of Louis w. Hill,
president, when quered if the Great
Northern was in any way back of or
connected with the Methow Valley
Eastern railway that proposed to
build railroad from Pateros up the
Methow valley.
Suspected of being veteran and
safe-crackers, whose ac-