Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS

ance among cattle at the head OF ASo-
tin creek.
Dedicatory services lasting through
out Sunday we're held at the new
Christian church at Pasco.
G. F. Cottan, switchman for the
Great Northern at Hillyard, fell off the
front footboard Of switch engine Sat
urday night and was killed.
Jacob Mowry, convicted of wrong
ing 15-year-old Charleston girl, was
sentenced to serve from three to 10
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary
Mrs. Nellie Day Drumheller, wife of
Thomas Drumheller, prominent ranch
er of the Walla Walla valley, died Sat
urday.
Steve S. Baily, Cashmere hotel man,
is accredited, from San Francisco re-
ports, with making $1,000 cleanup
on the recent election.
The attendance for the six days of
the Ninth National Apple show at
Spokane reached 51,629, lacking only
5000 of being twice that of the 1915
show.
Mrs. R. F. Montgomery of Ellens-
burg, died at McDurmit, New, Fri
day. Mrs. Montgomery was the moth
er of Thomas Montgomery. She was
in her S7th year.
The officers of the Palouse Poultry
and Pet Stock association have an
nounced that they will hold their 18th
annual poultry show at Palouse City
January II to 20, inclusive.
Nathan Juliux Marx, travelling
salesman, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree by a jury
in the Yakima county superior court
Nov. rs, for killing John F. Daley,
night clerk at a hotel August %.
While Rufus Wright, age 16, son of
P. L. Wright, was handling a rifle
at home, just west of Toppenish, Sat
urday, it was accidentally discharged
and the bullet struck his brother,
Leonard, age 9, in the abdomen, in
flicting wound from which he died.
A trolley car bound for Lake Wash
ington ran away on the hill on East
Madison street, Seattle, Saturday
night and after gaining momentum
by a race of four blocks, crashed in
to another trolley car moving in the
same direction. H. S. Brannan was
instantly killed.
That the task of cruising the 49,
900 acres of government lands to be
accepted by the state in lieu of school
lands locked in the national forests,
which will be the finishing touch in
the gigantic lieu land exchange which
was inaugurated more than two years
ago, will be completed by the end
of the 1917 season.
The Oriental Limited Great North
ern passenger train No. 1, west
bound, met head-on with a heavy
freight train Friday night near Leav-
enworth. The engine buckled and
No passenger cars left the track and
no passengers were severely injured.
Fireman Hans Dahms was killed.
Out of IA persons claiming to be
Indians and entitled to allotments
on the Colville reservation eight were
allowed claims and six were rejected
by decision handed down Saturday
by Judge Rudkin, at Spokane. The
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opening of the reservation to home
steaders, after the applicants had
been denied allotments by the secre-
tary of the interior.
An unusual number of accidents in
the lumber and single mills and
logging camps of the state has caus-
ed the accident fund to run short in
classes 9 and 10, the mill and log
ging camp classes. The Industrial in
surance commission Monday reported
that those classes had been over
drawn more than $1,000, and in or
der to meet the emergency an extra
call will be made on the employers.
The additional call will carry the de-
partment through December and Jan
uary at the end of which time the
1917 adjustments will be made.
The Whitman County National bank
of Rosalia was held up by lone
robber, who followed Cashier F. j..
Wilmer into the bank during the
noon hour, when, on Saturday, the
doors are locked for about an hour.
Mr.. Wilmer, under menace of gun,
was in the act of unlocking the vault
door, when F. B. Goldsworthy, book
keeper for hardware store next
door who had kew to the bank