Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-14

building for hotel purposes.
Two hundred farmers from Doug
las and Grant counties visited the
Pullman state college July II to Ia.
The hardware store of J. J. Welle,
Uniontown, was robbed recently The
safe was entered and $500 in cash
taken.
Haying in the Colville valley has
commenced with the prospect for a
good yield. Small fruits are in great
abundance.
The county commissioners at Clark
ston have dispensed with the SER
vices of a horticultural inspector
during the summer.
F. F. Avery, age 63, superintend-
ent of Indian schools on the Colville
and Spokane reservations, died at
Nespelem, from Bright's disease, re-
Gently.
William Fueston, age 8, was acci-
dentally killed at Spokane Saturday
when he fell under the wheels of a
trailer attached to a county auto paw
ing truck.
Washington's Second regiment of
infantry that left for the border is a
contingent to be proud of, according
to Colonel George Ruhlen, U. S. A.,
who saw the troops entrain.
For years the G. Will shaffer place
has had the distinction of producing
the first marketable peaches from
the Wenatchee valley and retains
that honor this year-July Z.
Stepping out into the yard while
his wife and two children were asleep
in their home, R. D. Bates shot him
self through the forehead with a re-
volver, lying instantly, Saturday at
Ellensburg.
J. H. Reed Of Yakima county was
reelected president and Colfax was
chosen as next years meeting place
by the Washington Rural Letter Car
riers' association in recent session at
North Yakima.
at Chewelah every business house ex-
cept two closed and bankers, law
yers, merchants and other citizens
helped to repair the roads and build
new highway.
Crop conditions are excellent in
the upper Okanogan country. The
heavy rains have been followed by
ideal clear growing weather. Wheat
is headed out. Alfalfa and clover
cutting is now on.
The Second Washington regiment
arrived at Calexico, CAL, Saturday.
The troops are all in good condition.
The temperature is lis above zero
and the Mexican border is half a
mile away. Five hundred troops are
stationed there.
Steps have been taken at Kenne-
wick to accomplish the construction
of the high line canal from Rosa, to
about 10 miles below Kennewick.
Ninety thousand acres would be plac-
ed under the ditch, while the canal
would irrigate 24O,O00 acres.
So successful has the two weeks
conference for rural ministers at the
Washington State College, Pullman,
been that the attending ministers
have taken steps to insure the hold
ing of the conference there next sum-
mer on greatly enlarged scale.
The three men killed recently by
rock slide during blasting for snow
sheds at Ambra, King county, on the
Great Northern main line, were Le-
roy Ellis, Everett, surveyor; Richard
Johnson, Seattle, foreman of con-
struction, and Roy King, Everett.
Superior Judge j. T. Ronald of Sc
attic denied petitions of R. G. Steph-
ems, G.. o. Ajax and F. N. Carney,
druggists, who sought writs of pro-
hibition restraining the state board
of pharmacy from holding a hearing
July II to determine if their licenses
should be revoked for alleged viola
tions Of the prohibition law.
Richard James, electrician, whose
home is in Seattle, was electrocuted
at Gle Elum Saturday while working
for the Northwestern improvement
company, 1900 volts passing through
his body. Death was instantaneous.
Officials of the company do not know
how he came in contact with the live
circuit, for he was working below on
the new lighting system being in