Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Quincy.
Spokane merchants are shipping in
potatoes from Vancouver, B. G.
DR.. Emil Ohrt was recently ap-
pointed German consul general at Sc
attic.
Turkey enthusiasts of Richland
have imported considerable fine stock
recently.
Seattle will soon vote on $780,
900 bond issue for market and stor-
age plant.
The Washington State Federation
of Labor ended it's annual conven-
tion at Everett Saturday.
Richland will receive $4,000 from
the state road fund to be expended
on roads in that section.
A bill providing that all text books
for schools be printed in the state is
to be presented to the legislature.
Two thousand quarts of whisky,
uM O1duuy dAO dOOuL lVO NooOo
Of beer, were grabbed in Seattle re-
Gently.
Andrew Bechtel and Lee R. En-
land, each about % years old, were
killed at Seattle in an auto accident
recently.
A. l.. Paine of Hoquiam was elected
president of the West Coast Lumber
mems association at it's annual meet
ing last week.
The first snow of the winter fell
at Seattle Sunday. It reached depth
of three inches near the salt water
and of six inches two miles inland.
Expenditure of 100000 in the Yak
ina valley during the coming year
has been authorized by the executive
committee of the Northern Pacific.
e. A. Benson of Tacoma has been
offered and has accepted the position
of commissioner of agricultuJe. The
appointment will take effectl April !.
Mrs. Florence c. Axtell of Belling-
ham, appointed by the president to
membership on the employees COM
pensation commission at $4,000 year,
is at the national capital.
w. T. Tyler, for two years super
intendent of the Pasco division of the
Northern Pacific, has assumed his
new duties as general manager of the
Cotton Belt Line, in Texas.
Plans for reduction in the num-
Der of state Officers and possible con-
solidation of state departments and
commissions will be taken up this
week with Governor Lister
Sheep wintering on the 13,000-acre
property IL miles north of Benton
City in the Yakima valley, are warm
ed by burning gas from the natural
gas we'll there, according to report.
The Tacoma Gas company went
into the hands of a receiver recently.
The company supplies artificial gas
to Tacoma, Ruston, Dupont and Puy-
allup. 1t is capitalized for $7,500,000.
The transformation of dormant peat
bogs into productive cranberry fields
offers a great opportunity in this
state in the opinion of j. H. Dalton,
deputy in the department of agricul
ture.
NJ w. Ahern bought the Lottie E.
Gates farm of 240 acres east of Rear
dan, for $4,000. He also bought the
north one-half of section 3, township
21, range 35, south of Downs, for
$4,000.
F. e. DeSellem, county horticul-
turist of North Yakima, in his annual
report to the state department, CIV
en- out at Olympia, shows he inspect
ed during the shipping season, 81
O34,393 packages. E
G.. P. Stewart, speaking before the
commended the use of the fiber of the
banana palm, thousands of tons of
which are wasted annually, as sub
stitute4 for jute in making grain bags.
Bags sfrom banana fibre would be
three times as lasting as jute bags,
he said
: Eastern Washington counties will
receive the following for current
school money from state funds
Yakima, $24,470; Adams, $5,572;
Asotin, $3,S27; Benton, $4,479; Che
Ian, $8,741; Columbia, $4,000; Doug
las, $5,214; Ferry, $1,000; Franklin,
$2,7O1; Garfield, $2,467; Grant, $4,000;
Kittitas, $9,O6S; Klickitat, $4,9S4;
Lincoln, $9,695; Pend Oreille, $2,524;
Spokane, $63,647; Stevens, $10,S13;
Walla Walla, $14,3S9; Whitman, $19,-
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