Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-23
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Mrs. Fred Kurtzman, pioneer, at
Pasco, died recently.
The Colfax band is planning to give
a series of winter concerts at that
place.
Thomas w. Savage, a pioneer of
Palouse country, died recently at Spo-
kane.
The first real snowfall of the sea-
son fell at Spokane Saturday, about
one inch.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. N. Bennett, who
live near Valley, celebrated their
fiftieth wedding anniversary recent
ly.
Judge Edmond Kimball Pendergast,
who died recently at Okanogan, was
born March 19, 1864, at Salisbury,
Mass.
The recent election cost Spokane
county $4,000. The general election
cost $4,000, the primary $4,000 and
printing $4,000.
A jury at Waterville Saturday found
a verdict of first degree murder in
the case of Walter Holt, 10 years
old, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Emma ]. Smith, age 70, homesteader
on Badger mountain.
Farmers of the Big Bend country
say coyotes are unusually bold in
committing depredations on farmyard
fowls. Dogs are worsted in fights
with the coyotes. Steel traps are
found most effective in capturing
them.
It is estimated that more than
100000 worth of wheat was sold at
Palouse City during last week at
$3.50 bushel, thus disposing of near
ly all of the heavy crops in the sur
rounding district. Several farmers
have received checks for $4,000 and
more.
James Tullen, the itinerant cook,
sailor and soldier Of fortune, held in
connection with he Gs.ath of Mrs.
Margaret Braun, landlady of the Tour
ist hotel, Spokane, whose dead body
was found recently in the hotel, has
been booked for murder in the first
degree.
The third logged-off land confer
ence to be held on the campus of the
University of Washington will con-
vene on December in the audito-
rum of Forestry hall. The purpose
of this conference, like those which
preceded it, is to help solve the
stump land problem of the northwest.
Miss Alice Carey, aged 80, was
shot and seriously wounded Sunday
by her sister, Mrs. Margaret Hart
man, wife of dairyman at Red
monds near Seattle. Mrs. Hartman,
who, according to the county author
tiles, was temporarily insane, then
DR.. J. H. Martin of the state de-
partment of agriculture, is in Rich
land making an investigation of the
epidemic of rabies in this district.
He has placed quarantine on the
entire district extending from the
Horn to the Columbia river, to be-
come effective at once and continue
until all danger is past.
Governor Lister designates Thurs
day, November 80, as Thanksgiving
day. "In this year of grace we find
that self-analysis has been predom-
inant," the proclamation reads in
part, 1--WE have taken to a careful ex-
animation of motives and purposes,
and as a result, we have made mate
rial progress for humanity and for
righteousness"
Frank ]. Richards of Lincoln, Neb.,
placed on trial at Port Angeles
charged with attempted blackmail. 1t
is alleged that he sought to extort
$4,000 from David E. Thompson of
Lake Crescent, Wash, former United
States minister to Mexico and Chile
and reputed to be millionaire, by
threatening if Mr.. Thompson did not
pay the money, to publish a biogra-
ply of Mr.. Thompson. The jury found
him guilty
Unofficial returns compiled from
1881 precincts of 1886 in Washington
give: Hughes 163,122; Wilson 180,804.
Returns from 1908 precincts for Uni
ted States senator give Poindexter,