Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS

ID. d. Kelly has sold for $9l20 his
240-acre farm near Odessa, to Simon
Roloff of Canada.
The German-American bank, Seat
tie, with capital of 100000, and de-
posts of $1,5000O0, has failed
A big attendance is expected at
the northwest mining convention to
A deal has been consummated by
which the sugar factory at Waverly
has been sold to Mr.. Heinz of San
Francisco. The machinery goes to
Los ngeles.
The commandant of the Puget
sound navy yard ordered the en-
frances closed to all persons except |
employees, and these are required to
be identified.
A walkout of furnace men at the
Northport smelter occurred Saturday.
They quit when their force was re-
duced A union organizer is working |
among the employees, about 200 of
whom are idle.
A bill prohibiting the indiscriminate|
sale of revolvers and pistols; also a
bill reestablishing capital punishment
in Washington as a penalty for MUIR
der have been introduced in the leg
islature.
Charles A. Brand, chief of the bu
reau Of markets, Washington, D. c.,
has wired the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce that the wheat grades con-
ference would be held in Spokane
February II. The hearing is in con-
nection with Spokane's application for
the establishment of a laboratory
and Standardization bureau in Spo
kane.
Senator Miles Poindexter introduce
ed an amendment in congress to the
agricultural bill proposing the appro-
priation of $4,000 for the destruction
of the insects in this state. With the
amendment was another to allow
$4,000 to the secretary of agriculture
to be spent in cooperative work in
forage crop investigation in this
state east of the Cascades.
John Vandell of Bordeaux, Wash,
who shot and killed E. w. Olson,
chairman of the state Industrial in
;surance commission, in the commits
ssioner's office at Olympia last Thurs
day, declares he.ghad no relatives or
friends, except an aged mother
refused to tellSwhere she lived, say.
ing he did not want her to know
of the shooting. He said he had no
money.
Without dissenting vote in either
house substitute house bill Is, carry
ing out the compromise recommends
tons dividing the courses of study
between the University of Washing
ton and Washington State college,
and house bill 143, concurring land
grants and other federal aid to the
college, were passed under suspen-
sion of rules and taken to Governor
Lister for his signature.
Estimating the 1917 output of grain
bags at the state penitentiary jute
mill at 1,125,000 sacks, compared with
100000 sacks in 1916, the state
UOdiu VI COALIOl ClIuOullSCo CAS dp-
portionment of bags to the counties
of the state.
Farmers must put their acquisitions
for bags in the hands of the board
before March 81. The bags will be
held at 1917 cents each, an advance
of half cent over the 1916 price.
The apportionment to eastern Wash
inptOn c0IIntias follows.
Whitman, 26S,300; Lincoln, $4,000;
Walla Walla, 119,SOO; Adams, 113,4OO;
Spokane, $4,000; Asotin, 1860; Ben
ton, 5000; Chelan, 1900; Douglas, co..
800; Ferry, ZOO; Franklin, 21,7OO;
Garfield, 43,5OO; Grant, 10000; Kit
titas, 400; Okanogan, 5000; Pend
Oreille, 1900; Stevens, ZOO; Yakima,
34O0
Deaths and Funerals.
Samuel Merriman, age 81, resi-
dent of Spokane.
j. G.. Pierce, a well-known farmer
of Colfax section of the country, is
dead.
The funeral of Mrs. Maria Dorta
Schaffer, a pioneer, was held at Odes-
-sa Friday.
Mrs. Henry Berke, pioneer of Doug
las county, was buried at Waterville
February 2.
Thee funeral of Fred Hellbaum, a
well-known resident of Whitman coun-
ty, was held recently at Endicott.
Funeral services for H. T. Cowley,