Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-06-23
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The Northern Pacific railway COM
pany has completed the building of
a stock yard at Hatton.
Rufus Merriam, age ga, pioneer real
estate dealer, who resided in the city
since 1888, died in Spokane Sunday.
Sixty-six carloads of horses for
Great Britain have been assembled in
Washington and Oregon within the
last month.
The Leroy and M. F. Backus in
terests in the Lake Chelan Land COM
pany have been taken over by Fred
Furey and associates.
Newspaper men will meet in FL
lensburg July 13, IA and Is. The
first and parent organization is the
Washington State Press association.
After surviving two days with a
broken neck, Herman G. Froemke, a
Summitview rancher, died recently at
Tieton He was thrown from a wagon
and struck on his head.
John HI. Sinks, age 25, an attendant
at the eastern hospital for the insane
at Medical Lake, was drowned Fri
day in Medical lake while swimming.
The body was recovered.
Spokane was chosen as the 1917
meeting place of the Washington Bank
ers' association by the executive COM
mittee. 1t will probably be some time
during the month of June.
A forest fire which threatened con-
siderable damage recently burned in
the green timber near the camps of
the Greenwood Timber company, IL
miles north of Aberdeen.
AS is the case of cherries and pears,
the Wenatchee apricot crop will fall
far short Of last year s shipments.
but will be of high quality and good
size Moses Coulee will ship the first
carlots.
Frank Lane, l.. R. Raymond and
Dwight Byers, who slugged Jailer
Joseph Thomas at the Kittitas coun-
ty Jail in Ellensburg recently and
escaped, are in the Yakima county
jail for safekeeping.
Her throat cut by a murderer who
whistled popular tune while COM
mitting the crime, Mrs. Blanche Cole
man was found murdered in her apart
ment in a hotel at Seattle Saturday.
John Souder, cigarman, was ar
rested.
Robert Gaines, pioneer of Wenat-
chez valley and the Entiat, received
a letter from a nephew, stating that
his brother, Samuel Morton Gaines,
and wife, were killed in the tornado
which struck southeastern Missouri
recently.
The robber who held up the Citi-
zens bank of Sultan June 16, got
$2228. Fifty men pursued him in the
hills above Sultan, using hounds. The
fugitive eluded the dogs by crossing
streams and marshes. He seems thor
oughly acquainted with the country.
Upon receipt of notice from Secre-
tary of War Baker last Sunday, the
Washington national guard forces,
consisting of one regiment of infan-
try, one troop of cavalry and one
company of signal corps, were direct
ed to mobilize at American lake at
once.
Search parties patrolled Tanum
creek, near Ellensburg, Saturday and
Peck of Lind, Wash, a normal school
student who was drowned. Miss
Peck, who was with picnic party,
was crossing the creek on a log
when she lost her balance and fell
into the water.
A judge at Ellensburg has granted
a divorce to Bessie Thomas from w.
r. Thomas The court also held val
id an agreement entered into by the
parties in March, 1914, by which Mr..
Thomas was to pay Mrs. Thomas
$120,000 as consideration of her share
of the community property held by
the two, the money to be paid in
six annual installments of 100000
each. The couple were married at FL
lensburg in 1895 and have eight chill
dren.
In a Commercial Way.
Tenny & Haskert are opening a
general store at Loon Lake.
S. Masiti has moved his general
store from Bossburg to Evans.
Harry Worley has acquired the Cen.
trail drug store at Rockford from W.
M. Parkison.
Citizens of Springdale and Hunters,
UIoc1, hoxo rorfaofad y,1orc For tho