Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS
Calexico. Cal.-The Second Wash
lngton regiment was paid Saturday.

The new Deer Park creamery open
ed up for business recently.
w. I. Clark, age 60, Pullman pio-
neer and retired farmer, died of
dropsy recently.
Contracts for three SSOO-ton steel
freight steamers, to cost a total of
S2,500,O0O, were awarded recently by
Norwegian interests to j. F. Duthie
& Co., ship-builders, of Seattle, it is
announced
John F.. Gillies, former claim agent
of the state industrial insurance COM
mission, convicted of looting the in
dustrial fund, arrived from Key West,
Florida, at the State Penitentiary
Friday night.
In what is supposed to have been
a fit of sudden anger, j. Henry
Scheuch, age about 60, wealthy
farmer residing eight miles north Of
Sprague, committed suicide recently
by cutting his throat.
Contractors Woldson and Foster Of
Spokane began work on the extern
sion of the Northern Pacific from
Grandview to Gibbon, where it will
connect with the main line. Seventy
five men and Is teams are laying
track. The work will take about
two weeks.
Railroads of Washington have filed
TO- ,sff r,r1h1in
mission putting into effect excursion
rates Of fare and one-third for round
trip to the interstate fair at Spokane
hay fair, Wilbur; miners first aid
convention, Tacoma; and business
mems camp at Cosgrove.
Robbers took $4,000 in cash from
the ranch home of G.. Zollmann, a
bachelor, residing southeast of Odes-
ga, recently. Mr.. Zollmann had the
$4,000 hidden in a small satchel up
stairs, and harvest hands working for
him learned this. Two suspects left
this region in an auto about the time
of the robbery.
Saturday marked the close of the
filings of declarations of candidacy
by those seeking nominations at the
primary election on September II for
federal, state, judiciary and joint
county offices. When the secretary
of state locked his office doors 124
persons had filed. They had con-
tributed $52S5 in fees.
At least 100000 bushels of wheat
were sold out Of the Palouse ware
houses the last three days Of last
week at 81 and over bushel. Many
farmers were holding for the dollar
and as soon as the market reached
that point sold. Many others, how
ever, believe that the price will go
higher, and are still holding.
A massmeeting of Seattle citizens
which filled the Arena Sunday ex-
pressed with unanimous standing
vote approval of the Washington pro-
hibition law and of the work of May
or Hiram G.. Gill and Chief of Po-
lice Chas. Rockingham in enforcing
the law. Governor Ernest Lister sta
COu lupaCLlCdl1y LAdL Lu0 SJCtS was
better off under prohibition.
Estimates among Spokane grain
buyers were that about 14,0O0,0O0
bushels Of wheat, bringing approx
mately s15,OOO,000, had been purchas-
ed in eastern Washington since Aug.
1, and that large part was of the
old crop Of 100000 bushels. This
would leave from 46,OOO,OOO to ST.
100000 bushels to be sold in order
to dispose of all available wheat.
Five hundred and sixty acres, cost
ing $50,S60, have changed hands in
Pennington in the last 10 days, the
price ranging from SIS to $107.50 an
acre. The largest transfer was that
of the F. A. Pierson farm Of $50 acres
which was purchased by w. Wright
Of Olympia, Wash, for $96 an acre.
1t is a highly improved farm. The
new owner will take possession O.
tober and Mr.. Pierson will move to
California
Real estate consisting of farm and
grazing lands and valued at consider
ably more than $1,000,000 has just
been distributed among the nine chill
dren of the late Lewis Neace, at
Waitsburg. This is partial distri-
button only and comprises approx
mately one-haf of this estate. Mrs.
Neace, the widow of Lewis Neace,
retaining her interest in the Mon
tana ranch of 1900 acres, in the
First National bank of Waitsburg, as
well as all the personal property.
The report of Port Warden Pay