Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-21
Washington News

w 0O4luSlVu INCWO
Sixteen prisoners, seven of them
from King County. arrived In Walla
Walla recently, to commence prison
terms.
District Governor Harlan I. Peyton
Of Spokane. accompanied by score
or more of Seattle Lions, went to
Longview recently to aid in the fes-
tlvities making the granting Of the
charter.
The new community house at Fos-
ter was dedicated recently with cere-
monies which lasted throughout the
day. Dedicatory speeches were given
by the pastors representing sur
rounding communities. Supper and
an evening concert concluded the
program.
The Inland Dairy Products Assoc
citation of Spokane has decided to
acquire or construct and equip a
creamery and plant for powdering
! milk, at cost not to exceed $95,000
1t is planned to have the new plant
in full operation by next spring.
Taking possession of the farm
house of Roy Kirkendau, near Pull
man, while the family was away in
California, George Freitag lived high
on canned fruit and other food stored
in the cellar. He was arrested and
pleaded guilty before Judge R. L..
McCrosky. to burglary in the second
degree. He was given from one to
five years in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla.
Damage caused by monster tide
lately flooded the business district
Of Hoquiam: some of the residential
districts were hard sit also. The
greatest damage occurred from the
| water flooding the homes in the East
Side; in some houses the water rose
to q depth of two feet. The natural
tide Of 1914 feet was swelled to al
most IA feet, higher than at any
time since the record tide of the
winter Of 1928. Business was at a
general standstill.
George Stuart Of Monroe was late
ly named president of the Western
Washington Horticultural Association
and Everett is selected as the 1924
convention city; G. B. Fitzgerald
was named first vice-president, and
Mrs. John Roberts second vice-presi-
dent; R. T. Reid, secretary, and Ar
thur Killiam Of Warm Beach, assist
ant secretary.
Nine bodies, drowned, when the
steamer T. w. Lake was lost in the
terrific gale last week, have been
recovered; each body was girdled
with life belt. There was a crew of
Is men aboard, and searchers for the
bodies of the six still unaccounted
for are keeping sharp lookout along
the shores of the islands near where
the vessel foundered.
| A very interesting experience in
wild animal hunting was related by
Charles McMillion Of Randle, who ar
rived at Morton last week. Mr.. Nc
Million Is federal predatory animal
hunter and has been chasing cougar
In the mountains along the upper
Cowlitz River during the past few
weeks. While on the upper stretch
Of Silver Creek his dogs took up a
chase. supposedly a cougar. Their
baying soon told him they had cor
nered their quarry, and he fastened
to the scene. A large black bear was
standing over the carcass of deer,
which McMillion killed with one shot
Never before In his hunting had he
seen bear standing guard over an
animal carcass.
In an opinion, rendered in a letter
to Director e. L. French of the De-
partment of Agriculture, by the At
torney- General's Office, the farmer
who blasts stumps OF otherwise uses
high explosives during the compare
lively short season of chicken hatch
ing, to the actual damage of neigh
Dor poultryman operatin incubators
probably would be liable for dam
ages. 1t was pointed out that raising
of poultry was the usual and ordi-
nary use of the farm, while the use
of explosives thereon was an extraor-
binary and more or less unnatural
use thereof. Belief was expressed
that under the principle of law that
requires adjacent landowners to use
their property with due regard to the
rights of others, the right of action
would arise for damages in case of
| this kind.
In case brought by King County,
Washington against Seattle School
District No. recently the Supreme
Court held that federal forest re-
serve funds appropriated by Con-