Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
WASHINGTON ITEMS
Wenatchee will have a communit.
Christmas tree.


Christmas tree.
Fred Arrowsmith was reelected
drainage supervisor of Sunnyside dis
trict.
Miss Scott Montgomery, age Sc,
died at Colfax Saturday She had
long been in the P. o. department
Mrs. Julia E. Jarnigan, age 78,
descendant of the great jurist, John
Marshall, died in Sunnyside recently.
Jake Blake, son of the late Judge
r. B. Blake, Spokane, was accident
ally asphyxiated Sunday at San Fran
cisco.
George w. Blackmer, age rs, civil
war veteran and early pioneer of the
west, died of cancer at Walla Walla
Sunday.
Corn grown by e. E. Starkey of
Prosser won the sweepstakes prize at
the corn show of the First National
bank of st. Paul.
The dead body of Joseph Smith, a
civil war veteran, with the skull
fractured in several places, was found
recently six miles from Seattle.
William T. Shearer, age % brake
man on the Great Northern running
out of Hillyard, was killed Saturday
near Libby, Mont, by a passenger
train.
Advances in the price of wheat
have given the holders at Walla
Walla of 100000 bushels of wheat
the hope of high prices for their
grain.
Engineer Eeasley, Tacoma; Fire
man Rapp, Tacoma, were killed Sun
day when a Northern Pacific pas
senger train, running from Hoquiam
to Moclips, hurled log across the
track.
The Puget Sound Traction, Light
and Power company, operating street
car lines in Seattle, announces an in
crease in the wages of 1000 conduc-
tors and motormen. On January l.,
1917, another increase of 1 cent an
hour
The Whitman County Farmers
union, in session recently, passed res
olutions asking the county commits
sioners and the prosecuting attorney
to push with vigor the cases charging
that the county road payrolls were
padded.
The ak squad of the Seattle police
department was set to work in the
Breakers cafe on First avenue recent
ly and everything in the place was
destroyed. The place was padlocked
by the police after they had purchased
liquor with marked money, they say.
The demolished bar and fixtures were
valued at several thousand dollars.
Mrs. Martha A. Drumheller, a pio-
neer of 1859, died Saturday at Walla
Walla. She was the widow of Jesse
Drumheller, a big wheat rancher of the
valley. Mrs. Drumheller was a mem
ber of the we'll known Maxon family,
and was married in 1863 to Mr. Drum
heller, a pioneer of 1852. Mrs. Drum
heller leaves five children.
Stuart Morris, art manager of a
Seattle paper is the winner of the
$1,000 prize in the trademark compe-
tition conducted by Western Union
Life of Spokane. His design was Sc
lected from among 1853 entries, repre-
senting every state and territory in
the Union, all the provinces in Canada
and 10 foreign countries
The Official count of the ballots cast
in the November election, made by the
state canvassing board, shows the fol-
lowing vote: For president Hughes,
166,399; Wilson, 182,993; Benson, So
cialist, 22,544; Hanley, prohibitionist,
6S23; Reimer, socialist, labor, 700.
For United States senator, Poindex-
ter, republican, 192,2S7; Turner, demo-
crat, 35,339; Rogers, socialist, 21,7O9;
Campbell, prohibition, 4441; Thomp-
son, socialist, labor, 1141.
For governor, Mcbride, republican,
167,802; Lister, democrat, 181, ,642; Kat
terfield, socialist, 21,117; Gellerman,
prohibition, 3514; Bradford, progress
i've, 1884; Riordan, socialist labor, 623.
Sixty residents of the Naches, We
mas, Selah and Mckee valleys, repre-
senting an extensive acreage not under
irrigation, met recently to discuss pre-
liminaries in connection with the for
nation of an irrigation district to in
clude $4,000 acres with the idea of
getting water from the government
Pomona Heights Irrigation district re-
Gently formed is to irrigate 5000 acres
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