Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-19
Northwest News

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tendent of the federal employment
office in Yakima, believes that 1000
men will be needed until the apple
crop is all boxed There is a great
demand now for apple pickers, pack
ers and warehouse workers.
One of the Original Americans" on
the Tulalip reservation, named Will.
liam Shelton, exhibited statue
at the Sammamish Valley County
Fair. 1t is carved in wood. He has
also carved several totem poles, one
of which has been set up in Everett.
More than 1000 farms are under
cultivation on Vashon and Maury
islands, where bulbs, vegetables,
fruit and chickens are produced in
great quantities and sent east and to
England The climate is particularly
adapted to the raising of these prod
ucts. Dairy farming stabilizes the
commercial conditions.
John Edwards, 27, while washing
windows at the Frye Hotel fell down
four stories, and still lives to tell
the tale, although he has a dislocated
elbow, fracture of small bone in
his foot, and finger bruises. The ac-
cident was due to the breaking of a
safety-belt.
The two tourist camps of Belling
ham have not only paid their ex-
penses this summer, but balance of
between three and four hundred dol
lars remain A fee of SO cents was
charged for each car remaining over
night. About 5000 cars parked in
the camps for one or more nights.
E. j. Vickney, of the University Of
Washington, will deliver the chief ad-
dress in the program which will be
given in Norway Hall, Seattle, to
commemorate the discovery of Am
erica in the year 1000, by Left Eric
son. This discovery was not followed
by colonization, so Christopher Co.
lumbus must still continue to receive
the glory of the discovery.
The raw milk dealers of Seattle
won their fight against Commissioner
of Health DR.. H. M. Read and Chief
Of Police Severyns in Judge Smiths
court. Judge Smith held that the
dealers were entitled to the courts
protection in the distribution of their
milk, finding that the commissioner,
in enforcing the rules governing dair
les and milk distribution, had permit
ted discrimination against raw milk
dealers.
Alaska Week will be held in Seattle
from October % to Is. October 18 is
the 56th anniversary of the raising
of the American flag at Sitka, follow
ing the purchase of the territory from
Russia. During the week there will
be a display of exhibits on the ground
floor of the White -Henry-Stuart build
ing, showing the progress made by
Alaska since it's purchase by Amer
lea. Alaska Week is to be made an
annual affair.
Grant Smith, of Seattle, construct
ing contractor for the new Olympic,
Seattle's $4,O00,0O0 community ho-
TEL one of the outstanding builders of
the United States, succumbed in a
st. Paul hospital to stroke Of apo
plexy, with which he was seized on
passenger train, while on his way
to Seattle from New York. His wife,
bride of two months, left on the
first train out of Seattle for st. Paul
after receiving the telegram stating
that her husband had been stricken
| with apoplexy. Mr.. Smith was re-
turning to Seattle after making a
| tour Of the East, where he was in
terested in many projects, and was
hurrying home to direct the work
on the Olympic when the end came.
Ezra Meeker, the trail blazer of
"a, wants the commissioners of King
and Pierce counties to authorize
preliminary survey of the old Naches
Pass. He says that the old pioneer
route would make the distance from
Walla Walla to Seattle 287 miles,
which would swell the tourist tide to
Seattle by many thousands each sum-
mer by shortening distances.
When the war ended, 43 wooden
hulls were consigned to the safe har
Dor Of Lake Union, sold by the Ship
ping Board afterwards to private in
terest. This number has gradually
been reduced, until now there are
only 81 idle boats; the 38th has been
fitted up as a floating home for the
Seattle Camp Fire Girls, gift from
Captain F. w. Keen, retired mariner
Reports have it that several more
deals are in prospect for other of
these hulls, which are considered
among the strongest and best-built
wooden carriers ever built.