Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-26
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Two slight earthquake shocks were
felt in Los Angeles Sunday.
Ventura, Cal, residents rushed in
to the streets when two slight earth
quake shocks were felt there Sunday.
Flour added 20 cents a barrel at
San Francisco, October 21, selling at
$500 family extra grade. This is
more than it sold here for during the
civil war;
e. G. Christy of San Francisco, a
member of the Aero Club of America,
died recently, at Hugo, Okla, from
injuries sustained when an aero
plane in which he was flying, turned
over in the air and plunged to the
ground.
Closing of contracts for six auxil-
iary power schooners, four to be built
at Aberdeen, Wash, and two at Olym-
pia, is announced by A. Schuback,
principal owner of a shipyard. The
vessels will have capacity for car
rying 100000 feet of lumber each.
Mrs. Nicholas Stewart walked into
a barber shop at Oakland, Cal, Oct.
20, owned by Max Bernstein, and
with the brief remark to Bernstein,
who was shaving customer, ''You
sold my husband lemon, and now
I am going to kill you," she fired four
shots at him, one of which took ef-
feet in his shoulder. Mrs. Stewart
then drank bottle of poison and
died.
The first step in an attempt to
solve the Japanese labor problem on
the Pacific coast was taken at San
Francisco Monday with the announce
ment that nine Japanese labor unions
which will affiliate into a separate
Japanese labor council have been
formed, and that the movement would
be extended throughout California,
Oregon and Washington.
A federal government tax of $8,-
100000 will be levied upon the estate
of Henry Miller, cattle baron, who
died recently in California, leaving
an estate valued up to $40,000,O00, it
became known. The tax will be
claimed under a provision of the new
federal revenue act passed by the
last congress, which provides for a
graduated tax on inherited estates.
Benton l.. Barrett, age Ga, man
of wealth, is charged with the murder
of his wife and stepson at Santa Mon
ica, California. Before his victims
were dead, the police say, Barrett
cremated their bodies He has con-
fessed to the double murder. Barrett
came from Circleville, Ind. Mrs. Bar
rett before her marriage was a wild
ow, Mrs. Irene l.. Rodgers of Mount
Aetna Ind
The personnel of the board Of di-
rectors Of the Pacific Steamship com
pany, recently organized by the Pa
cific-Alaska Navigation company and
the Pacific Coast Steamship company
to take over and operate the fleets of
these two companies November /, is
announced by H. F. Alexander Of Ia
coma, president of the Pacific-Alaska
Navigation company and the Pacific
Steamship company. Five of the di-
rectors represent the Pacific Coast
Steamship company and 10 the Pa
cific-Alaska Navigation company.
Street Car Wreck in Oakland.
Oakland, Cal.-Three persons, all
women, were probably fatally injured
here Sunday night and Is others more
or less seriously injured when the
street car in which they were riding
capsized at the end of steep grade
down which the car had run away
after the airbrakes had been put out
of commission in collision with an
Those who sustained probable fatal
injuries were:
Mrs. F. F. Fredericks.
Mrs. Matte Schwartz.
Mrs. Myron Tozer, all of Oakland