Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS

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The measles epidemic is assuming
alarming proportions at Wenatchee.
John W. Carroll ,aged g., pioneer
of Whitman county, died Sunday at
Portland.
W. H. Bailey, republican, assistant
state fire warden since 1910, has
been dismissed.
The funeral of T. s. Phillips, well
known in the Yakima valley, was held
at Mabton Saturday.
Clyde Estes recently bought from
F. W. Brown his 642-acre farm near
Walla Walla, paying $22,S20.
A bill to gives landlords a lien on
property of tenants for unpaid office
rent is proposed in the legislature.
Frank Lepley, farmer of Hatton,
has purchased 1865 acres of Montana
land, with cattle and machinery, for
$65,
During the hunting season, which
began September Is and ended Jan.
ii, 10 hunters met violent deaths in
the state.
A contract has been let for $l2,-
600 bridge across the Yakima river
below Richland to replace the wood
en- structure.
Mrs. Dolly c.. Fisher, who was born
in Kentucky in 1880, and crossed the
plains in 1854 to- Oregon, died re-
Gently at Charleston.
Yakima valley growers and shippers
have about 1900 carloads of apples
in cold storage and common storages
according to estimates by dealers.
Troop A, Ellensburg, provisional
cavalry, has been accepted by the
war department as a unit Of the ma
tional guard of the United States.
William Ferry died at Spokane Sat
urday. He had for the last.six years
been general shop. foreman for the
O.-W. r. & N. there and at Starbuck.
George Hollway aged 81, resi-
dent of Spokane since 1881 and
member of the Spokane police depart
ment for more than 20 years, died
Sunday.
The IL county offices in Yakima
county were conducted at a saving
of more than $4,000 for 1915 over the
cost of conducting the same offices
in 1915.
A $4,000 brick chapter house will
be constructed soon by Delta Iota
chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity on
the lots owned by the fraternity on
Campus at Pullman.
Mrs. Deborah Frost of Everett, en-
ployed as cook at the Apex mine
near Skykomish, in the Cascades,
is thought to have perished in
snowslide in Money canyon recently.
After being i'll only a short time
with heart trouble, /. B. Miller, age
63, died recently at his home near
Pomeroy. He was born in western
Oregon.
Miss Minnie M Worthen, who will
graduate this year from the state
college, has been appointed secretary
treasurer of the intercollegiate pro-
hibition association of the state Of
Washington.
Three carloads of onions were sold
recently by Wapato yrancher, a jap
anese. One car was purchased for
$40 ton and the other two at SIS
per ton. The grower received $4,000
for the three carloads
The supreme court, reversing the
Thurston county superior court in
each instance, upholds the constitu-
tionality Of the state oil inspection
act, and knocked out the validity of
reciprocal demurrage rules promul-
gated by the public service commits
sion.
Grandma" White celebrated her
95th birthday last week at the home
of her granddaughter, Mrs. G. M.
Van Dyke at Toppenish. The latter's
mother Mrs. Anna Gribble, who is
II, was present. Mrs. White has 26
great-grandchildren and five great
great-grandchildren living.
Only clergymen, priests and rabbis,
actually in charge of congregations,
would be permitted to have liquor in
their possession under the terms of
the proposed bone dry" measure
now before the legislature. The bill
would. permit wholesale and retail
druggists and manufacturing chem