Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-30
Washington News

n $1,000
be employed without delay.
The Longview School was present
ed with a beautiful silk flag, the
gift of the Longview Service Club
as a part of the Armistice Day OBJ
servance. Mrs. Ruth Karr McKeen
president of the club, made the pre-
sentation.
Adjoining the sawmill of the Wal
ton Lumber Company, at Everett
land is being cleared for veneer
plant to cost in the neighborhood o.
100000, and to employ two shifts
OF 1870 men EACH 1t will be operated
by the Walton Veneer Company.
The Northwestern Camp Fire Girls
recently christened their new "ship'
home, naming it "Camaraderie."
The supreme court of the United
States has just declared the state
allan land law constitutional. This
law prohibits OrientaIs from owning
or leasing land.
The contract price for an order Of
cars just placed by the Union Pa
cific system, for 3,O57 new refriger
ator. cars, to cost 100000, will
mean an expenditure of approximate
ly $1,000, 900 for Pacific Northwest
lumber, at least, so said w. H. Olin
recently, assistant general freight
and passenger agent.
H. Andrus, of Four Mound Prairie
recently shot huge golden eagle,
with a wing spread of seven feet,
while the bird was trying to capture
one of Andrus's chickens. 1t has
been put ON display at the shop of a
local taxidermist. This species of
eagle is very scarce.
The Rev. Edward N. Cross, of St.
Paul, Mimi, was elected bishop of
Spokane, by the House of Bishops,
Protestant Episcopal Church, in the
United States in q special session at
DaMas, Texas, recently. At this
meeting of the bishops "a re-affirma-
ton of faith in the birth of Christ
and the Apostles Creed" was made
by the House of Bishops.
According to Bethesda Beals Blu
chanan, the executive secretary Of
the Washington tuberculosis Assoc
citation, the fight against tuberculosis
is winning out. In 1911 there were
1910 deaths from the disease, at the
rate of 10S per 100000 population.
Last year the rate was only ~ per
100000 population. tuberculosis is
still the leader as cause of death
among communicable diseases.
The last survivor of General Gus
ter's men-Captain Charles Norman
Hogan-died recently at the family
residence, in Seattle. In 1918, there
were four of Clusters men still alive,
two In Los Angeles and two in Sc
attic. In 1919 the two Los Angeles
men died. and the next year one of
the two in Seattle died, leaving
Captain Hogan the last of the historic
group Of men who fought with Gen
eral Custer.
During the next few months, Is
of the wooden hulls, which have been
lying idle in Lake Union since the
termination of the World War, are
to be consigned to the flames. The
vessels will be lowed to a sandspit
at Richmond Beach, five at time,
and they will be burned for the pipe
and metal in the hulls. The newly
organized Sea Salvage and Wrecking
Company, of Seattle, capitalized for
$4,000 has purchased the vessels
from the Equitable Transportation
Company of San Francisco, repre-
scented in Seattle by R. G. Blake. The
large quantities of pipe and metals
salvaged will be sold. By the liber-
al use of chemicals, the wood of the
bulls will be destroyed, even the
water-soaked timbers in the bottoms
of the vessels. Before the vessels
are set on fire the Lighthouses will
be removed and will be available for
use as dwellings, Households and
clubhouses. They are very roomy
and can be easily converted into
dwellings,.
Otto H. Kahn, New York banker,
declared that conditions in Europe
are slowly on the ascendency, in a
speech at Wesleyan University. He
recently returned from an investiga-
ton tour in Europe.
Members of the faculty at the
University of Washington have in
augurated campaign to collect
books for the library of the Imperial
University of Tokyo, which was de-
stroyed in the recent fire and earth
quake. The library there formerly
contained 100000 volumes, all of
which were burned.
Will you need some tonic next win
ter? Can it now in jars in the form
Of vegetables.