Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-29
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':af Farmers south Of Hartl 9 :.
beginning to feel alarmed ov,
appearance of crickets, the pc :.
last year, which are Matching out on
the scab rock.
The magnesite deposits near Val
ley and Chewelah are the largest
found in the United States, accord
ing to Samuel H. Dolbear, consult
ing mining engineer.
The farm loan bank officials sign
ed bonds at Spokane and officers
were sworn in Saturday. They ex-
pect to handle S100,0O0,OO0 in secur-
tiles eventually, says secretary Jew
ett.
Seattle jobbers fear the effects of
Japanese potatoes, 1000 sacks of
which will go on their market this
week. This is the first shipment of
potatoes ever received from Japan.
A. Taylor sold 1880 acres near
Waterville to- George Wilman for
$4,000, which included the stock
and machinery. Five hundred and
eighty acres of this is plow land,
the balance being pasture.
~ The appointment of A. D. Dunn,
OF Wapato, as a member of the
board of regents of Washington
State college is announced. He suc-
ceeds MIR. Cunningham, who has SER
evd more than five years.
Stirred with patriotic zeal, women
of Ellensburg to the unmber of $50
met recently and formed a branch
of the daughters of the American
Revolution to take up Red Gross
work and make articles that might
be needed by the Ellensburg cavalry
troop in the event of call for mo-
.bilization.
During an alteration in pool
hall at Milan, north of Spokane,
Monday, C. A. Palmer, job carpen-
ter, former justice of the peace, shot
and Instantly killed George Yer
beck, who attempted to prevent him
from shooting another young fell
low, and also shot Nels Verbeck,
father of George, through the throat.
The second regiment of the Nat
iofial Guard of the State of Wash
ington has been called upon by the
war departent to mobilize immedi-
ately, according to Governor Lister.
The companies that make up the
regiment will mobilize in their own
communities until the receipt of
further orders. Governor Lister
says that the purpose of the mobi-
lization was to protect industrial
property within the state.
Jute bags made by convicts,
which are taken by the counties of
the state on April 1, will be reappor-
Toned to farmers who have not re-
celved all The sacks they wish. The
warden states that many of the
farmers to whom were apportioned
sacks have not yet sent n their
checks for ten per cent of the amo-
unit, and that sacks for which no
checks have been received April t.
will be put in with the new allot-
lnents.
Railroad men working in west
ern part of Walla Walla county de-
clare the recent windstorm is the
worst in their recollection. The roof
was blown off a baggage car on
Northern Pacific train. Frequent
stops had to be made to shovel sand
Off the tracks on this road. Farm
ers who seeded or reseeded their
land just before the storm say they
will have to do much of the work
over again, as the grain has been
uncovered. Damage in this way
will reach thousands of dollars.
The Great Northern Railway COM
panies having hard time keeping
its line over the mountains clear.
No sooner does the big rotary clear
the track Of snow at one pont and
men with shovels remove the dirt
and rocks at another, than their SER
vices are transferred to some other
point where similar conditions have
suddenly developed. A snowslide
near Enbro killed two laborers
walking the track and buried a por-
fiQn of train No d u,hich xuoc