Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS

lOaQS OF Hour.
The Yakima market is now an as
sured fact and plans are under way
for the opening.
Real estate transfers amounting to
about $4,000 have been closed in the
last week at Davenport.
Taxes paid in October at Walla
Walla were approximately $4,000
more than paid year ago.
Robbers entered the store of Mich
aelson & Koth, Odessa, recently and
blew the safe, taking $500 in cash.
Almost two feet of snow is re-
ported at Tye, in the Cascades, where
it has been showing every day for a
week.
Hopelessly insane as the result of
baseball injury suffered last year,
Henry Hoefer, age IA, was taken in
to custody at Spokane recently
Confined in the Wenatchee Jail is
Henry Zibley, age 16, who in COM
pany with two other boys attempted
to hold up a bank in Fargo, N. D.
Bridgeport held an apple show last
week. Prizes were given by bust
ness houses. Over eighty cars of ap-
pies have been shipped and thirty
more will follow.
ffvy on
grown field peas, the product of F.
M. Slagle, were recently shipped to
Europe to be used as food for the
men in the trenches.
Druggists of the state, according to
a referendum vote, favor law for
bidding pharmacists to sell liquor in
any quantity, for any purpose what
ever. The vote stood 324 against
liquor to ia for it.
The work of the State college in
the interest of farmers and land own
ers will be widened to include ex-
haustive study of the logged land
problem as the result of action taken
by the board of regents.
The Wenatchee valley is facing the
most acute crisis in its apple mar
keting history and unless something
is done Immediately to gain relief
the district stands to lose close to
$1,5OO,00O, fruit shippers say.
The new $4,000 elevator of the
Quincy Farmers Elevator company,
built to replace the one destroyed by
fire March IL, is complete and has a
capacity of $4,000 bushels. Fifteen
thousand bushels of grain can be han
died in an hour.
Yakima shipment of apples last
week amounted to about $50 cars.
Total fruit shipments from the valley
since June, including melons, amount
to 67OO carloads. Apple shippers es-
innate that warehouses and orchards
still contain 1000 cars.
While eating an apple Matthew
Leary, 8-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Nick Leary, of Leavenworth, got a
piece of peeling in his windpipe and
died within five minutes Saturday.
The doctors, who were called imme-
diately, were unable to give relief.
Organization of another big ship
building company in Seattle, the
Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock COM
pany, is announced, together with
the information that contracts al
ready have been signed for the con-
struction of three 8000-ton steel
steamers at the new plant for Norwe-
gian interests at cost of more than
$3,OOO,OOO.
L. A. Cone has sold his ranch, z
miles north of Reardan, to Alva Brook
for $4,000. L. E. Ensor purchased
the five quarter sections belonging
to G. M. Sparks, the consideration
being $45,000 1t was formerly own
ed by j. B. Davidson. ]. G. Sexson
has disposed of his well-improved
farm for $4,000, the purchaser be-
ing j. A. Miller of Sprague.
The remarkable building activity at
Northport during the summer and fall
has resulted in 1876 structures costing
from $3.50 to $4,000 being erected.
Four brick business blocks represent
ing $4,000 and 10 representing $780,
600 are among the new buildings.
Twenty-Five residences ranging in
price from $500 to $4,000 have been
erected, besides AZ which will be
built in the coming eight weeks. Two
warehouses costing $500 each have
been built