Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Walla Walla wheat sold at $1.60 on
Saturday.
Despondent because he lost his job
Lyman B. Tibbetts, age Al, killed him
self at Spokane Sunday.
All of the Mckee valley is included
in the Mckee National Farm Loan as.
ISOLATION organization, which has just
been completed.
Nelson McGinnis of Winona re.
Gently sold a carload of 95 head of
hogs weighing 1850 pounds to a
Spokane company at 1910.
The highest price ever paid in
Odessa for wheat was offered Satur-
day when dealers quoted $1.6O a blu.
| for bluestem and early Bart wheat.
The naval appropriation bill, as it
passed the senate, contained ever
larger appropriations for the Bremen
ton yard than when it passed the
/ house.
The Ames Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company of Seattle has signed
contracts to build nine large steel
steamships at cost of more than
$11,O00,O0O.
Whitman Pomona grange No. 2
has unanimously adopted resolutions
of approval of the plan to secure
the services of a farm adviser for
Whitman county.
The house judiciary committee has
unanimously adopted an amendment
to senate bill 50, allowing trust COM
panies to continue in the administra-
ton of estates, the right abolished
in the senate.
Wrestlers from the Washington
State college at Pullman demonstrate
ed their superiority Saturday over
the University of Washington ath-
letes. They won three bouts, tied
one and lost one.
Seattle's police department is in a
sorry, disgraceful predicament. It's
chief, it's inspector and five members
of it's detective bureau are under in
dictment-all charged with grating
or offenses akin to grating.
Members of the Seattle G. A. r.
are planning Ito entertain 5000 vet
Grams and members of affiliated or
CARNATIONS at the 35th annual en-
campment of Washington and Alaska
June 10, 20 and FL.
Announcement is made of the for
nation of company composed of
several prominent Eureka flat farm
ers for the purpose of building a
100000 elevator at Pleasant View, a
station IL miles west of Starbuck.
Wool growers of the Yakima val
ley are already contracting for the
shearing of the 1917 clip. Sheepmen
are expecting a good clip, exceeding
the total of last year by 100000 lbs,
bringing the amount to $2,225,O00.
BY a vote of "a to Al the. house
passed house bill "a, establishing a
fourth normal school at Centralia,
and authorizing one-tenth mill levy,
raising 100000 annually, as the in
itial provision for financing the new
institution.
This state has won another lap
in the northwestern fight to elimin-
ate from tourist tickets over the
southern railroad lines the $175O ar
bitrary which they charge passengers
who desire to come or go, via the
northern route.
|, Harmony that has prevailed be-
tween Governor Lister and the legis-
lature was perceptibly Jared Friday
when the executive vetoed three bills
and sent them back to the senate
with an intimation that more vetoes
are to follow. The first measure
vetoed was senate bill, 240, appro-
priating an additional $4,000 for leg
islative expenses. The governor fol-
lowed this with veto of senate bill
AZ, the "drugless healer bill, and
senate bill 201, another of the legisla-
tive group of medical bills, remov-
ing two present osteopathic members
from the state board Of medical ex-
aminers. These are two bills of a
group of five passed by the legisla-
ture providing a separate examining
board for each separate class of heal
ers.
Deaths and Funerals.