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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
GRAIN AND MILLING NOTES.

There is movement on foot at
Poplar, Mont, to. organize a flour
mill.
1t is reported that "a flour mill will
be built at Dillon, Mont, some time
during 1917.
The flour mill of G.. S. Wedge &
Son, Culbertson, Mont, is now. COM
pleted and open for business.
The plant of the Gardner Mill Co.
at Roseburg, Ore, which was de-
stroyed by re~recently, will not be
rebuilt until the lum b er market
reaches more favorable condition.
Prices are too high.
The Weiser Milling & Elevator Co.,
Weiser, Idaho, which recently COM
pleted 90,0OO-bushel concrete ele-
vator, has decided to increase it's ca
pacity by adding 10000 bushels more
storage and will erect 300-barrel
mill.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Rumanian King to Russia.

Berlin.-According to Russian press
reports received by the Overseas News
agency, King Ferdinand of Rumania
has selected the Potemkin palace at
Yekaterinoslay, in southern Russia, as
his residence, and the Rumanian gov
ernment and parliament, now at Jassy
Rumania, will be transferred to Rus
sia, part of the authorities going to
Yekaterinoslav and the others to
kherson.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01

The money is apportioned on the
basis of school attendance, six ap-
portionments being made each year.
Recent Deaths.
Joseph Murphy, age 35, is missing
from Pasco.
Gottfried Croft, age 80, died at Ell.
berton Sunday.
Mrs. M. Cooper, age 10, died at
Tekoa recently.
Col Eugene Syre Topping is dead
at Victoria, B. G.
John L. Bowers, aged 76, died at
Spokane Saturday.
John Fisher, aged 85, civil war vet
eran and early pioneer of Spokane,
is dead.
The business houses of La Crosse
closed Saturday morning, during the
funeral of Peter Lightle, an old pio-
neer.
Mrs. Frank Huber Sr., age II, a
pioneer, died at the. home of her
daughter, Mrs. Henry Schiebe, at Aso-
tin recently.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
SPORTING ITEMS

Les Darcy will soon fight Al Nc
Coy or Jack Dillon.
Charley Weinert and Fred Fulton
have signed to, fight February IL.
Bob McAllister of California out
fought the Zulu Kid of Brooklyn re-
Gently. -.
George q. Stovall, last season cap
tain of the Toledo team, will this
year go to Vernon of the Pacific
Coast league.
Fred Snodgrass, outfielder of the
Boston National baseball team, an
nounces he has refused to sign a
new contract with the Braves.
The Chicago American league base
ball team will put in two weeks of
hard work at the Mineral Wells
(Texas) training camp before March
IL.
President David L. Fultz of the
Baseball Players fraternity, is ar
ranging for a massmeeting of fans to
place before them the players side of
their differences with organized base
ball.
Considering the fact that he has
barred no fighter in his IA years of
ring experience, the record of Sam
Langford, the Boston "bone crusher"
is one of the greatest in the book of
pugilism.
Roy Brown of last seasons Van
couver club has been purchased by
Butte in an attempt to fill the big
hole at second caused by the loss of
Grover, who is a prospective certain
ty on the Philadelphia Athletics.
Following their eighth consecutive
victory Saturday when they defeated
Idaho for the second time, the state
college basket ball players are on a
trip to California to play eight games
in their absence af IL days. Four Of
these will be for the championship of
the Coast conference, as the w. s..
G.. quintet as state champion is the
official representative of Washington
against California and Stanford
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Brannon Resigns Idaho U.

Boise, Jan. 29.-Dr Melvin A. Bran
non, president of the state university
of Idaho at Moscow, wired his resig-
nation to the state board of education
Monday. The board is expected to ac-
cept when it takes action Tuesday.
The resignation is the result Of a
charge of political activity on the part
of the university president and alleg-
ed hostility to Governor Alexander.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Greece SaIutes Allies Flag.

London-The ceremony of saluting
the entente allies flag by Greece was
carried out Monday afternoon in the
Zappeion, in accordance with the ar
rangement recently entered into be-
tween the Greek government and the
entente powers
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FoRQUICkREApING
Brief Notes Covering Happenings in
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to all the People.

The Dresden arsenal has been
blown up and 1000 women and girls
killed, it is reported.
Five hundred and fifty persons
were killed in the earthquake on the
island Of Bali, recently.
Severe breaks in Chicago prices of
wheat resulted Saturday from heavy
selling, due largely to peace rumors.
Eighteen persons have been killed
and so injured through collision be-
tween freight trains at Chateaunuf,
France.
The senate has voted favorably on
the $4,000 appropriation to pay for
the Inauguration expenses at the
capitol.
Joubomir Mahailovitvh, the first
minister from Serbia to the United
States, has presented his credentials
to President Wilson.
Bar silver rose to ~ cents an o..
in New York Saturday, within one
quarter of cent Of its highest quo
tatiqn since the war.
The Arizona supreme court has re-
turned decision holding that Thos.
3. Campbell frepublicanl, is the de
facto governor of Arizona.
It is announced that the German
frontier will continue closed to Swiss
exports until January 30. Fresh veg
etables alone are allowed to pass.
Sixty thousand bombs have fallen
on Rheims, France, since the begin
ming of the war, and 545 civilians
have been killed and 652 wounded.
ALI London shopkeepers, great and
small, must shut their places of bust
ness at 8 o'clock, except on Saturday
nights, when they may keep open until
9 O'Clock.
German forces have been success
full in the operations in the first two
regions, while British troops have ta-
ken positions from the Turks along
the Tigris in the latter.
Sp1rlLeQ IlSnLlnS uaS taheH place
northwest of Verdun on the front in
France, near Riga, on the Russian
front and southwest of Kut-el-Amara
in the Mesopotamian theater.
Fred Hoist, paymaster for a meat
packing company in Chicago, was re-
Gently robbed of $500 he was carry
ing in a satchel, by two men who
held him up with pistols and then
escaped in an automobile.
Polish youths recently paraded in
front of the American consulate at
Warsaw to express their gratifica-
ton for the mention of the Polish
problem by President Wilson in his
recent speech in the senate.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Wreck at Cleveland.

W Cleveland, Ohio.-Four persons were
killed, three being burned to death,
and 18 were injured, several seriously,
Saturday when an interurban passen-
ger car and an electric package car
collided near here.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Pass Rivers and Harbors Bill.

Washington.-The annual rivers and
harbors appropriation bill, carrying
$3S, ,000,000 including more than $10,-
100000 for new projects, was passed
by the house by vote of 221 to 131.
1t now goes to the senate.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Wilson Sends Word to Kaiser.

Washington.-Pres Wilson Sat-
urday cabled Emperor William formal
congratulations on the fifty-eighth an
niversary of his birth, as is the Gus
tom on the birthdays of all foreign
sovereigns.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Wilson vetoes immigration Bill.

Washington.-Mon the president
vetoed the immigration bill passed re-
Gently by congress, because of it's lit
eracy test provision.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
Refugees Follow Our Army.

Ell Paso, Texas.-More than 1900 ref
ugees are following in the wake of the
American expeditionary forces on their
march out of Mexico.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
S. A. HEWETT, AT AUBURN, WN.,
ARRESTED AND HURRIED
AWAY TO SEATTLE.
ENDS LIFE OF FOUR CHILDREN
Skulls Of Victims Crushed in-Bloody
Hammer Found--Parents separ-
ated Recently Their Lives
Were Insured.

Tacoma, Wash.-Belieyed to have
been brutally murdered as they lay
in their beds, after the room and
beds had been saturated with kero-
sene, and the house then set ON fire,
four little children OF s. A.. Hewett
of Auburn, were slain about A o'clock
Sunday morning. Their badly charred
bodies we're taken from the ruins
Hewett, a Northern Pacific brake
man in the railroad yards at Auburn,
was placed under arrest by the King
county sheriff and taken to Seattle
following the gathering of crowd
of nearly 1000 persons, among whom
there was considerable talk of lynch
ing.
Hewett told the officers that the
four children retired as usual last
night, but during the night one was
taken ill. He went to attend the lit
tie one, taking a kerosene lamp, that
he left burning on chair between
their two BEDS Being restless, he
said, he took walk, returned later
and fell into sound sleep from which
he awakened to see flames cracking
all about him. Unable to reach the
children, he rushed to neighbor's
to give the alarm and then returned
and with garden hose tried to put
out the fire.
Examination of the children's
charred bodies by the coroner re-
Id fo 4 hot r1y1 hod
been crushed in, while the mattresses
on which they lay were saturated
with blood.
Behind little trundle bed on which
slept the only girl of the four, Myr-
tie, age 5, was found blood stained
hammer, and in the room an empty
bottle labeled poison" The other
three children, Ephraim, age 10; Ar
thur, age 8, and Clarence, age 5, were
found in one big bed.
Had Insurance Policies.
On Sunday the father handed to
| a neighbor, S. P. McGillivray, an en-
velope containing the insurance pol
icies, which it is said he had taken
out recently for his children and
which had ben saved from the fire.
Mrs. Hewett, the mother, left the
family home last Monday and is be-
lieved to be in Seattle.
Domestic trouble is believed to
have been the cause of the separa-
ton.
I Mrs. Hewett is 90 years old, and
Hewett is said to be about 4O
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
1877 IS DANGER
YEAR. FOR SOUTH
Twenty Million Bales More Likely
Than Twenty Cents Pound,
Says Hastings.

Atlanta, Ga.-(Specian-That 1917
Is q danger year. for the south, and
that there is dynamite in the pres
ent cotton situation for the cotton
growing farmer" are the warning
words used by H. G. Hastings, presi-
dent Of the Southeastern Fair Asso-
citation and the Georgia Chamber Of
Commerce, in an interview given to
the newspapers here urging farmers
not to increase their cotton acreage.
Eighteen to twenty cent cotton at
planting time in spring." he says, "is
the bait that will lure hundreds Of
thousands of farmers in the south to
each put in few extra acres, and
-ahoslds natnsos srnilo son tho crop - In
1914. we will come nearer q twenty
million bale crop than 20 cents per
pound. for evidence multiplies daily
that they are planting right up to
the graveyard as it is sometimes Ell
pressed.
son the Hastings farm we don't ex-
pect to put in an acre more OF cotton
than we did last year, because We
think it time above all others to
play safe. What we will increase to
the limit Of our ability will be food.
grain and forage. beef cattle and
hogs.
"The safe way Is to first supply all
needs of family and stock from ones
own acres, and then put surplus acre
age In cotton. With bread and meat
in hand, and q garden producing
steadily through spring, summer and
fall; with home canned vegetables and
fruits On closet shelves for winter ta-
Bile use; with corn in the crib and hay
| and fodder in the barn or stack, the
farmer can be largely Independent OF
cotton prices in the fall. The farmer
| so provided for is never distressed.
| He can sit on his cotton bales with
mind at ease, and sell In his own good
time when prices are right.
| with labor comparatively scarce
and fertilizer high. any material IN
crease in cotton acreage must nee
essarily be at the expense of food and
| grain acres that are in reality fa1
more responsible for the south's pres
ent prosperity than is Is to 20 CEN
4 cotton.
I Memories are short, but wise far
mers need only to look back to 1911
and see the disaster due to too mucl
cotton that can't be eaten. and thu
lack of food that cne must eat. re
| peat this year Of 1917, is q DANCE
4 year. Any farmer who increases cot
ton acreage and cuts food crop acre
is gambling with the cards stacke'
i against him."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11

Coattnsed y, Page Four.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11

workin' for a movin' picture outfit and
he won't borrow your watch. Mebby
he has little business deal to put up
to you and mebby not. Take my word
for 1t. he's straight. !"
I'm William Winthrop back east
Billy will do here. I'm tenderfoot,
but I'm not exactly fool. observed
the dclicacy with which you engineer
ed the recent exodus Of the policeman.
I'm interested" /"
Sounds like plush to me-. said
Overland. 4 got little time. not
much. You're correct about the cop.
I got n pretty good thing out In the
Moiave gold.
Winthrop laughed. yon aren't los.
ing any time. arc your
You wouldn't neither il You was In
my boots. safl Overland. grinnins
,cheerfuiIy
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
He Knew Shakespeare.

This country possesses many inter
estiny relics pointing back 10 the time
of the immortal bard Shakespeare. a
reminder which should not he over
looked is this epifaph found over q
grave in Fredericksburg. Va:
Here lies Edward ueldon. med
ical and surgical practitioner. the
friend and companion Of William
Shakespeare of Avon He died aftel
Il short illness, In the year OF our Lord
1918. in the seventeen year OF his
age" New York Sun
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
~yVhe lost you hers7" asked Overland.

~yNhe lost you hsrsT" asked Overland.
lieved me when said was comm. to
this particular town. It's worth some
thin to have felIa around that be-
ueves q fella once In awhile But what
what want to know Is why you done
up the constable 80 offhand like. not
knowin' whether Ia show up here Or
notT'
.'Why7" And Winthrop smiled wan
y. because I'm perfectly harmless
little old tenderfoot.' And his voice
caught az he tried to laugh.
All ut once that night the tramp real
lied that this easy going young east
erner. wealthy. unused to hardship.
delicate Of health, had his battle to
fight as well. ''I'vc knowed 'em TO get
over It." reflected Overland. shes
high and dry up here on the desert,
and reckon to 20 where its higher.
Hes game. but he's desp'rate He's
tryin' to dodge the verdict, which can't
be did. Well. II excitement will help
any. guess he's ridin' the right range.
II he's got to pass over he might AZ
well 90 quick Mebby he's the best
kind Of pal for this deal. after ali"
Overlanu IuoAeu ac.oss - lne .,. uu''
throp did not answer.
wen. = sases eAp'ain'n nu'se,su
eae tlnp, anu ne 1ose qule.ly e
ss.nereu .ne leM "p u'e',Slls 80
Setner. roiieu nls DlanAets' pfusnea
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
Nth Degree.

Talk about tortured!
Yes.
Nothing II worse than sitting IN 9
BARRIERS chair With your mouth full
Of iather watching The hos trying 20
give another customer your new hat
- ift.s#s ---------
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
CHAPTER X.
Desert Law.

|T(HE blue Of the eastern horizon
grew shallower. changing to q
cold thin gray which warmed
slowly 70 the straw color OF
tempering steel. The trnmp. watching
the sky, shook his clinched fist at tho
dawn. .sYou, up there!'' he growled.
You didn't give me a square deal
when was down and out that time
Ia Sonora. | had to crawl to 1t alone.
But I'll show you that I'm bigger than
you. I'm goin' back to the tenderfoot
and zee him through II swing pole
high for 1t. !"
It was light when the tramp had ar-
rived at the water hole. He crept be-
hind sharp dip In the hnmmocks.
The crest Of his hiding place was coz.
cred. with brush. It was q natural
rife pit. affording him seclusion and
shelter.
With the sun came the faint thud
OF hoofs as two riders came warily up
to the water hole. One dismounted and
stopped over Winthrop. The other sat
his horse. silent. vigiiant, saturnine
Say, where's your pal. that there
Overland Red guy7" asked the consta-
BILE, shaking Winthrop awake and gIar-
Ing 1t him with 4 bleared and balefuI
eye.
The man ON the horse frowned, con-
sidering. IN the light OF his experience
q successful and still living two gun
man. that such tactics were rather
crude
The easterner sat up, coughed and
blinked In the dawn Where IS what7
Why. good rnorningi You're up early"
And his eye swept the empty camp.
So Overland Red had deserted him
after an He might have expected ~
much II haven't any pal, as you can
zee. I'm out here studying insect life,
a. ] told ron ! would be yesterday.
Y0u needn't shake me any more I'm
awake. can't say that I'm exactly
pleased with my nrst specimen
"Oh, I'm specimen. am I? I'm q
Cbnfinued On Pure Four
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-11
a Valid Excuse.

Madam. why do you want to get
ont OF doing jury duty J?
Judge. | havenst thing ht 10 wear.
..Taleswoman excused : Louisville
Conrier-Iournai.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-07
SLEEPER RAPS
TAX ON AUTOS

LANSING. Mich Nav Cover
nor Sleeper has wired The following
protest 10 Michigan delegation In
congress against the proposed nvc
per cent war tax on automobiles
"Nichiean most emphaucallv pro
tost- against tho proposed tax on
autos which Z adopted In its pres
ent form VIII threaten The very life
OF The states most important indus
try We are willing to give Of our
men. our wealth and our vast re-
sources. buf We feel that tho pro
posed measure discrimlnates against
MICHIGAN In most unwarranled
manner
"a great majority of the automo
mile Institutions arc doing business
ON very small margin of profit
and 10 'ho factories are taxed he.
yond reason Tho workinemen who
arc dependent for their livelihood
upon Tho auto industry will be
forced ont ~ employment
Michigan a. willing 20 bear her
share of the great burden imposed
by tho war. and. We believe the peo
pic oi Tho country viii give us "a
square deal in this matter therc-
fare urge You TO- use an honorable
means against the proposed ate
per cent TAX on automobiles
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-07

woman who lrnafe him with
fh Ieb'esf courtesy has design.
co him snd acts accordingly. But
lna woman WHO vori for tbc GOV
,fumen. ean-.nn ae- h1l mind II
She wants to eot married he MUS
ee ou" of he cauUu rhrre She
is gotommcn employee nShng
more
"MarRc. hnh IN had stayed
In Washington ss q congressman
secretary longer than one session
would have married Jon a se'fde-
Tense 7 used to- go tuIdsing. homc
an o'clock and see pretty women
fitting back of lscedropped win
uows and before knew 81 was
hating them
Don't Northumberland me Mar
gle. , did MOI hate my JOB ] don't
think if bad 90 choose would
have oNch snged places with them
bur you know they d'd look $50 sleek
and Vellfed. and sometimes espe.
cIally % it were raining looked
and teI' like an alley cat
soon found could write rrost
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-07
One Woman S Story
az cARoLYN sEEcHEa.

menccd 10 read Al first with cyni
cal belief m her ability. but soon
with absorbed attention n was 4
simple story, hut so rcplete was II
With human interest that in spite
~ myself II held my attention and
read thru 10 me end before laying
the magazine down
Then commenced 10 walk rest
lessly back and forth was light
ing hard FOR The mastery OF my emo
lions Robert had gone beyond my
influence ! was beginning 10 real
ize a. never had before how little
meant 10 him was H. because Of
this woman And was IL in any
way due 10 her ability to DO some
thing
remembered things Lena Dorian
had said things ! had until now for
gotten had not seen hor in many
months. but now she came WILDLY
before mo
"A woman can be good wife anc
mother and yet do things that are
IN her % do things that demand
expression" she had said
Then came the thought 81 Rob
erts old time fastidiousness as re
gardine a womans place his objec
tion 10 my appearing In public. ever
for charity We'll. would wait
was not yet prepared 20 take 50
vital a step against his wishes
neither had "a yet had time e
thoroly m myself
In the evening when Robert re
turned the subject came up again
How long since Mrs Lawson
turned authoress7" I asked with q
poor attempt 10 vef sheer
only short time Robert re-
piled Did you read her story
consider lt very creditable effort
Yes, glanced thru IT," ] re-
turned 7 didn't care much for h
But thought you objected 10 wom
en- doing things especially when il
was not necessary believe that's
y hat Won said when wanted 20 do
some concert work
'Rut Margaret. writing is differ
ont a woman can write I'm hcr
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-07
The Confessions OF a Wife
There's No Pleasure In Loneliness

81 early found out. Margie. 4u
Paula, that the TWO chief daUe.
OF secretary 10 a congressman wer.
acting as sort OF Office housekeeI
el and once hostess for him
Congressman Smiths Office va
always made no look perfectly bust
nesslike. yet think managed 90
give b. q little Individual distinction
For instance. We always had tvo
vases filed with flowers soon
found hsi the congressman was
fond of sweets and used 90 slyh
ON a tny basket in his drawer with
humble peanut brittle or old fash
toned tany
Don ,nlr Margie, al The thought
~ flowers and candy for congress.
man J never knew a man 10 call
on Mr. smith for the first tune who
did not al least give the posies "a
glance and ! knew Of only one 90
refuse The candy
ut took me- a long time Marg
10 get used 10 being treated as a
piece oi once furniture While ] did
not expect or want the congress
man or his friends 10 make 500
clety belle OF me. did scmeumcs
feel that they showed me too little
Difference
You see. made IL possible for
Mr. Smith 10 be very comfortable
kept al the bores away from him
and all those who wasted his time.
placated those who were angry
But do YOU know, Margie he would
pass me right by and go home or
some other place without so much
as glance IN my direction, let
alone wishing me good night?
He did this not from eny de-
sire 10 put me in my place, I'm sure
he Just did no' think, that was ell
For Frank Smith there MAS only
one woman in the world--the cold
little reptile he was warming IN his
bosom !. like All the other females.
whether in his employ or not just
did not exist-that was all
"It WAS not this way with some
~ his colleagues. however They
seemed 10 think that because ] MAS
on my own wss common prey