Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-02
WASHINGTON ITEMS

now assured.
Land values around Odessa have
increased from $40 to 500 an acre.
Shortage Of cars is resulting in the
nonfulfilment Of orders placed with
the mines for coal. =
David Bryant, pioneer homestead
er, died recently at Grandview from
a stroke of paralysis.
The farm produce of the Kittitas
valley is selling for greater prices
this year than ever before.
A total of 1873 women and 22,71
men are eligible to vote at the No
vember election in Spokane.
The total registration of voters of
the county of Stevens, as reported
by the registration clerks, is 1927.
G. E. Klise, former principal of the
North Yakima high school, died at
sanitarium near Boston recently.
Charleston people want the county
seat moved from Asotin to Charleston
and have subscribed the cash for the
courthouse.
Refrigerators both east and west
bound have the preference over all
classes of cars on the Great Northern
railway.
Thirty-nine big steel steamships,
aggregating 326,4OO tons gross regis
ter, are under contract in Seattle
shipyards.
The dry spell was broken at Walla
Walla, Friday, the drouth of AZ days
being the longest in the history of
the valley.
Fourteen hundred boxes of apples
constituted car shipped from Wen
atchee to San Francisco for Austria
lian export recently.
The large safe in the store Of How
ard & Henningsen, Rosalia, was re-
Gently blown to pieces by yeggs. They
got but little.
John Hildebrant, age 36, who was
shot by policeman at Seattle Sep
tember 5, after he had robbed a man
on the street, died Oct. 25 from his
wound.
National prohibition was. advocated
Sunday by U. S. Senator w. l.. Jones
of Washington in an address he de-
livered at a prohibition meeting at
Seattle
Freight rates on shipments of lum-
ber from Mississippi river points to
the Inland Empire are not unreason.
able, the interstate commerce COM
mission holds.
Grain men estimate that fully four
fifths of the 1916 crop has been sold
and the holders of the remaining 20
per cent show no inclination to sell
on rising market.
Forty and one-fourth per cent of
the $4,000 registered voters of Seat
tie are women, according to the reg
istration office. Forty thousand are
women and $4,000 men.
Victor Kock, age %, who enlisted
navy several years ago, while re-
turning to his battleship in a small
boat, was drowned, by the boat up
setting over near China
Roscoe Davis, age %, and Alvin
Siler, age 81, were found dead under
a new automobile Sunday in the
middle of the road two miles north
east of Palouse City. There were no
witnesses to the accident.
United States Senator Thomas P.
Gore of Oklahoma and G. w. Master
son of Walla Walla, democratic can
didate for congress, Fourth district,
both blind, presented a somewhat
unusual sight in Inland Empire cit
les last week.
Captain A. E. Stream of Grays
Harbor, one of the democratic presi-
Dental electors, died recently and
the state committee has substituted
the name of Mr.. Connor, of South
6euu, WHICH, Will nave 10 De pdSIeu
on the ballots.
All former records for grain quo
Russian wheat was quoted as high
as SLAB, club as high as $1.46, and
fortyfold brought top quotation of
$1.48. Despite the record quotations
only a few small lots were turned.
While Ivan a. Greb Of Kahlotus was
working on the threshing machine, a
setscrew on the tumbling rod that
drives the spools became entangled
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