Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-09-29
WASHINGTON ITEMS

: The Hunt plant at Walla Walla
will start up again soon.
Jacob Thiel Sr. and Mrs. Katie
Derr, pioneers, were married at Ritz
vile recently.
John e. Daverin, the first male
white child born in kittitas- county,
died recently at North Yakima.
The second annual harvest festival
and stock show. was held at Connell
Thursday and Friday of last week.
Fred Gilbreath, Columbia county
boy and West Pointer, has been
made a first lieutenant in the regu-
lar army.
Farmers in the vicinity of Wilbur
have had a successful season and
threshing will be completely finished
this week.
Through the benevolence of it's cit
liens Sprague is to have a park COW
ering the south half of an important
business block.
Because pupil who was sent home
i'll last week was found to have Sc
we're case of infantile paralysis the
Gatewood school, in West Seattle,
was ordered closed.
After Investigating the circumstan-
ces surrounding the death of Miss
Peggy Ickler, whose body was found
in the river at Pasco, it was proven
case of suicide. She was from
Minneapolis.
The annual convocation of the Roy
al Arch Masons, the grand council OF
the Royal and Select Masters and the
grand commandery Of the Knights
Templar will meet at North Yakima
this week.
Klickitat county is the latest re-
cruit to the ranks of counties employ
ing agricultural experts, and B. w.
Coonay, a graduate Of the University
of Nebraska, has been selected as
county agriculturist.
Tacoma expects to head the process
sion in the matter Of representation
at the 18th annual convention of the
Washington Retail Merchants asso-
citation, to be held at Wenatchee, Oc-
tober 10, II and 12.
For the first time since the lazy
husband" act was passed it has been
applied to woman. Prosecutor
| mt Yof
Mrs. Lydia Muncie, wife Of Alex
Muncie, mill worker of Tacoma.
The Lake Washington steamer Trl-
ton, engaged in ferry service, struck
snag while approaching landing
on the east shore of & the lake Sun
day and sank just as she was driven
onto the beach, No lives were lost.
The body of woman found in the
woods north of Seattle recently was
identified as that of Miss Jennie b..
Pendlington, aged 35, who has been
missing since July 4. Her relatives
said they had no doubt she commit
ted suicide.
Endowment of a chair of Russian
language and literature at the Uni
versity of Washington by Samuel
Hill, millionaire son-in-law of the late
James ]. Hill, was announced Mon
day by DR.. Henry Suzzallo, president
of the university.
Any controversy over charges pre-
ferred by Captain David Livingstone
against Colonel William Inglis, grow
ing out of differences between the
officers at Calexico, is closed mat
! ter, under orders from Major General
J. Franklin Bell, commanding the
western department of the U. s..
army.
George Rollo,. Spokane aeronaut,
whose second parachute failed to
open in balloon ascension exhibit
tion at the state fair at North Yak
ina Saturday, fell from height of
900 feet The bones Of his body were
frightfully crushed when he struck
inside the racetrack nearly opposite
the grandstand, crowded with gay
pleasure seekers.
Close to 100000 bushels of wheat
were sold at Walla Walla Saturday
The largest deal was that made by
Hugh Nicholson of Waitsburg, who
sold 10000 bushesl of club at $1.21
Most of the sales of club, however,
were for $120, while bluestem sold
at $1.26 and Turkey red $1.30. The
market has been dead for a week.
Lowering themselves by a rope
down the elevator shaft, four police