Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Jacob Schiewe, pioneer, died at
Odessa recently.
Samuel Williams, age rs, died re-
Gently at Cashmere.
The measles epidemic in the Wen
atchee schools still prevails.
The estate of the late Judge Brents
of Walla Walla is valued at 100000.
E. S. McCloud age "A, a veteran
of the civil war, died at Colville Sat
urday.
George DeHaven, pioneer resi-
dent of the Walla Walla district,
died Sunday.
B. L. Willis has leased the mill at
Cusick, and will operate it during the
coming season.
Mrs. Catherine Rupert. age SO, per
haps the Oldest person in Adams
county, died Sunday.
/. Andrew Gordon, aged 80, died at
Colfax Sunday. He had been an oc-
cupant of the hospital for II years.
l.. H. Pruitt has sold for $4,000
his ranch adjoining Ephrata to D. T..
Stritehoff of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Ten banks in the Palouse country
have deposits of $6,OO9,386, as against
$3,721 ,405 in September, an increase
of 60 per cent.
Eleven Big Bend banks have depos-
it's of $5,439,256, as against $3,404,211
in September, a gain of about $685.
900, or SO per cent.
Eleven central Washington banks
have deposits Of $3,665,383, as against
$2,385,755 in September, a gain of
$1,279,628, or 54 per cent.
Alvaro N. Griffin, age 80, native
of Ohio, veteran of the civil war and
pioneer of the Nez Perce prairie,
died recently at Charleston.
The Palouse city council has au-
thorized the issuance of bonds in the
sum of $22,441, in payment of the
balance due on street paving.
Nathan julius Marx, convicted of
murder in the second degree for the
killing of John F. Daley, at North
Yakima, August %, was sentenced to
from 10 to 20 years.
Adolph Golderer,. convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree for killing Ed
ward Korytkowski in North Yakima,
July 8, was sentenced to serve a life
term in the state prison.
Fred H. Pike of Seattle was re-
Gently reelected president of the
Washington State conference of the
Bricklayers, Stonemasons and Plas-
terers' International union
With only four horses on exhibit
ton at the Pacific International Live
Stock exposition at Portland, the
state college got two championships,
three first prizes and one second
prize.
The average milk production per
COW per month has been improved
nearly 100 pounds and the butterfat
production 3.2 pounds in a year as
result of the records kept by the
Walla Walla Cow Testing associa-
ton.
The practicability of the state be-
coming cooperative farmer by TAX
ing up diversified farming to larger
extent than is done at present at the
various state institutions is urged by
the State bureau of inspection in a
formal report.
Fixtures and furnishings valued at
$4,000 in the bar room and dining
room of the Hotel Cecil, Seattle, were
destroyed with axes by the dry squad
of the Seattle police department re-
Gently for alleged violation of the
prohibition law.
After December 13, the demurrage
on railroad cars engaged in both in
terstate and intrastate business in
Washington will be 81 car for the
first day, 50 for the second, SO for
the third and S. for the fourth and
every following day after the 4S
hours free time.
The McCown brothers of Waits
burg have purchased the Columbia
Center" ranch, 10 miles south of
Pomeroy, formerly owned by N. O.
Baldwin. The consideration was
about $4,000. The place contains
1900 acres. The new purchasers will
follow both farming and stock rails
ing.
At a recent meeting at Mansfield
about so farmers were present. In
Guiding representatives chosen from