Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-16

Snow fell at Chewelah all Satur-
day.
, Matthew McCauley, age Sc, died of
old age at Dayton Saturday. He was
a pioneer of 1861.
Contract for another SSOO-ton steel
cargo steamer, costing $1,OOO,OO0, to
be built for Norwegian interests has
been awarded a Seattle firm.
Ray Simonds age rs, rancher, of
Parker, while on hunt in Chelan
county a week ago, is lost in the
mountains. A searching party is out.
Edward Byrnes, pioneer stock
raiser of Yakima valley, died Friday
in Touchet, age "a. He was born in
Ireland and came to Walla Walla in
1860.
Barney Koshstein, alias Barney
Conn.," blacksmith, 80 years old,
who went to Seattle recently from
Salem, Ore, committed suicide Sun
day.
Samuel H. Harrison, for several
years a business man in North Yak
ina and former editor of the North
west Forum, died at Balboa, in the
Panama canal zone, October "a.
Mrs Sarah McClintock, age So,
wife of prominent farmer at Latah,
is suffering from case of rabies or
hydrophobia contracted through the
bite of their bulldog October II.
The next Washington state 1egis-
lature will have one woman mem
ber-Mrs. Ina P. Williams, republi-
can, of North Yakima The present
legislature has one woman member.
The Puyallup Merchants associa-
ton, acting in conjunction with Com
mercial club, is developing plans for
the holding of Public Sale days at
stated intervals Committees are at
work perfecting details for the de-
parture.
w. H. Englehardt of Tacoma, who
was convicted of manslaughter last
tomobile, whereby Mrs. Minnie Hogue
was killed on the Pacific highway,
was sentenced to one years impris-
onment in the state penitentiary. At
the trial witnesses testified that En-
glehardt was intoxicated, which he
denied, saying he had taken only
three drinks
One hundred and five men, women
and children attended the funeral
Saturday of Henry Sharpnack at Sc
attic. After the services at the GEM
etery, where the body was placed in
a mausoleum built under Sharpnack's
supervision and painted by his own
hands, the 105 persons received 81
each for their services. Sharpnack
personally gave orders for the en-
ployment of the mourners on October
80 last, 18 months after he had per-
sonally selected his casket and made
other funeral arrangements.
James H. Davis of Tacoma, re-
publican leader in the house of rep
resentatives for 10 years, and who
has been reelected, says that 10 re-
publican members are pledged to
support bill to strengthen the pro-
hibition law by making Jail sentences
compulsory upon conviction of sell
ing liquor in violation of the law, or
issuing fraudulent doctors prescrip-
tons; making a second conviction a
felony, and for the state supervision
of all alcohol and liquors brought
into the state for mechanical or
medicinal purposes.
For the first time since the permit
system went into effect in Spokane
county January 1, a liquor permit was
issued Saturday to an Indian. When
asked her nationality she said she
was an Indian, but added that she
also was a citizen of the United
States, at the same time displaying
citizenship badge, which was issued
about a month ago. The clerks at
first were doubtful about issuing
the permit, but after consultation
agreed with the applicant that she
was entitled to it. Her husband, a
French Canadian, also took out
permit. Each called for whisky from
Montana. They live southeast of
Spokane.