Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-06-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS


a s7S,61S postoffice building at Wenat-
chez was awarded recently.
Charles Sweeny, the pioneer mining
man who died recently at Portland,
was buried at Spokane Friday last.
Leslie H. Childs, age 81, of Spring
dale, a minor, was crushed to death
recently when boiler fell from
wagon.
The executive committee of the
Northern Big Bend Pioneers associa-
ton is perfecting plans for the pio-
neers' picnic at Wilbur.
At the Washington State college,
Pullman, June 8, John Matsen OF Blck-
Teton, a freshman, won the annual col
lege oratorical contest.
A permanent site, consisting of 16A
acres has been purchased for the hay
palace fair to be held during the early
part of September at Mabton.
Dale Tharp holds the best school rec
ord in Columbia county. He is IA years
old, started to school at 6, and dur
ing the eight years has not lost a day.
Sylvester P. Mitchell, clerk, was
shot during fight Sunday in his
home in Vancouver with rifle in the
hands of his wife, and died within an
hour.
An association of Colfax, Wash,
merchants to be federated with the
Washington Retail Merchants associa-
ton is to be formed during the COM
ing week.
w. E. Quinlan, owner and manager
of the Pasco Express, has disposed of
his interests in the plant and business
to Fred Barker, a prominent newspa-
per man of Spokane.
The Toppenish commercial CLUB was
recently host to more than 200 per-
sons at a banquet and jollification in
celebration of the initial appropriation
of 100000 for the Wapato irrigation
project.
The farmers union will hold the
Is and 16 State President Mccall will
speak The principal matter for dis
cussion will be the handling of grain
in bulk.
The sale of the Seattle, Renton C
Southern railway, a 12-mile trolley line
operating in Seattle and Renton, a
southern suburb, to the eastern bond
holders committee, who bid $1,000 900,
has been confirmed by the court.
Mrs. Frank Stone, wife of Frank
Stone, Saturday drove her automobile
through the locked doors of the ]. F.
Kearney Grocery company, on Main
street, at Olympia, when the brakes
failed to hold. She was uninjured.
Group one of the Washington State
Bankers association, which met at
Chelan, Wash, last week, elected the
following officers: A. P. Murray, Oro-
Vile, president; T. j. East Bridge
port, vice president for Douglas coun-
ty; H. E. Jones, Columbia Valley
bank, Wenatchee, secretary.
That Henry Hofmeaer of Oroville,
Wash, met his death between Fair
view, B. c., and Osoyoos, B. c., from
a blow with blunt instrument and
that A J. Wickersham, Angus Mclean
and Lester Armstrong are responsible
as being accessories before the fact,
was the verdict of coroner's jury.
The hay shipping season for Kitti-
tas and Kittitas county has closed
The total shipment from Kittitas for
the season was about 8 per cent high
er than in 1915. Total cars shipped,
1900; average to car, 13 tons. The
price of hay this year was higher than
last year, the average being SIS a ton.
P. w. Cox and sons, extensive farm
ers, have advertised sale of their live
stock and farming machinery to be
held at the Cox ranch near Hay, Whit
man county, on June 20 and 21.
Among the stock itsed for sale are
many thoroughbred and registered
horses. They expect to retire from
active farming.
The twenty-third annual Elberton
picnic will be held June 81, %, %. The
Colfax Military band will furnish mu
sic for the three days and the orches
ira will play for the dances. Ball teams
have signed to play for a $125 purse.
The first day TeEoa and Endicott will
play and on the second day Winona
and Oakesdale. The third day the two
winning teams will play for the purse.
A jury in the superior court at North
Yakima gave the guardian of Horatio