Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-22
WASHINGTON ITEMS

car will be in Prosser March "a.
John @. Fitzsimmons and Patrick
Fitzgerald, pioneers of Garfield coun-
ty, died recently.
The funeral of A. F. Hills, pioneer
newspaper man of Prosser, was held
Saturday from the Episcopal church.
Fred Williams. age "a, baggage man,
in the employ of the union station at
Spokane, swallowed two ounces of
carbolic acid and died Sunday.
John r. Wilson, age 4S, a member
of the lower house of the Washington
state legislature in the 1915 and 1917
sessions, died at Seattle Sunday.
Dr. Ernest H. Lindley, professor of
philosophy and psychology at Indiana
university, will speak at the Whitman
county teachers institute in Pullman
April 2, and 4.
The resignation of DR.. H. T. Graves
as acting state commissioner of agri-
culture, is announced The governor
commissioner of agriculture to take
office April 1.
Eugene P. Erckenbrack, railroad
man, and widely known in shipping
circles, was arrested at Seattle Sun
day pending investigation of the
shooting to death of Miss Mabel Howe,
aged 19, maid at the Erckenbrack
home.
Reports received from the camp near
Pasco of C. A. Hale, well known Walla
Walla sheepman, said that rs ewes
have died the last week of rabies.
Many lambs also have been killed.
Ewes and lambs are worth from $40
to $25 pair.
John Van Dell, convicted of first de-
gree murder for killing e. w. Olson,
state Industrial commissioner, in his
office in the capitol building February
1, was sentenced to life Imprisonment
j in the state penltaiitiary. The court
denied a motion for new trial.
Thomas Shiflett, who lives back of
Wenatchee, butchered hog recently
that weighed 700 pounds dressed, the
hams alone tipping the scales at 85
lbs. EACH At the prevailing prices of
ham and lard the hog will bring about
$140. There was about $50 lbs. of lard.
Governor Lister Monday signed the
fish code, the condensed milk bill,
and the bill permitting consolidation
of rival street car systems passed by
the session of the legislature. The
governor permitted the capitol build
ing bill to become a law without his
signature.
Charles L. Wagner, also known as
/ Charles LorentZ, who recently, armed
with revolver, forced his way into
the office of Governor Ernest Lister
and compelled the executive to flee
for safety to an adjoining room, was
adjudged insane and committed to the
asylum at Steilacoom.
At a recnt meeting of citizens at
on account of the menace to live stock
in Ferry county, the federal and state
governments should be petitioned to
assist in exterminating coyotes in east
ern Washington and that the predatory
animal inspector of Pendleton, Ore,
the state of Washington, and the com
missioner of Ferry county each be re-
quested to aid in the determination of
coyotes on the stock ranges, and par
ticularly in Ferry county.
The testimony of the Rev. DR.. Mark
A. Matthews, civic reformer, as wit
ness for the prosecution was an impor-
tant feature of the so-called whisky
graft trial in the United States dis
trict court at Seattle Sunday. A di-
rected acquittal of former Sheriff R.
T. Hodge, just before court adjourned,
was made. Billingsley said the $1,000
he had given to Hodges campaign
fund in 1916, and $500 loaned to Hodge
subsequently had no connection with
any favors to him by Hodge, and that
Hodge and Billingsley had never even
discussed the liquor business.
There was filed in the office of the
county auditor at Wenatchee recent
ly deed recording the sale by the
Northern Pacific Railway company
to the Great Northern of a stretch
of right of way beginning short dis
tance this side of Cascade tunnel
and extending through the tunnel to
the other side Of the mountain and
including the switchback down the
! mountain side to Scenic. The tract
comprises 214 acres, the purchase
price for which is stated at $5221.