Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-12
Worlds News

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Secretary of War Weeks announced
on Sept Oath, the sale of the Gorgas
plant and other government i'm
provements on the land of the
Alabama Power Company, at Muscle
Shoals, to the Alabama Power Com
pany. The sale price agreed was
E$3,472,4S5.
Great interest and surprise were
evinced by James B. Inglis, the lord
mayor of York, England, and Mrs.
Inglis, when they stayed for few
hours in Seattle, on their way home,
via San Francisco and New York.
The surprise was occasioned when.
they learned how young city Sc
attic was; and to hear of the rapid
development of the state afforded
them great interest 1--WE have an
official message from the people of
Old York to the citizens of our young
American namesake," said the lord
mayor. In their luggage they carry
the 3OO-year-old mayoress's chain,
worn by all York's mayoresses, and
replica of the lord mayors chain,
two strands of which are 500 years
old.
The earthquake in Persia still con-
tinues nearly every day. according
to word from Taskhend. Numerous
shocks have been felt up to the
frontier of Turkestan.
j. H. Wickham, aged 70, celebrated
his birthday by playing 70 holes Of
golf over the Hyperion Club links at
Des Moines, Iowa.
There will be shortage of lilies
in the United States next spring, as
virtually the entire stock Of bulbs in
Japan has been destroyed by the
earthquake and fire.
United States navy seaplanes won
first and second places in the inter-
national seaplane race for the Schnei-
der cup at Cowes, England, the
worlds chief naval air trophy.
The official itinerary of David Lloyd
Georges American tour is as follows:
October 5, New York; 6 to 8, Mon.
treal; 9, Ottawa; 10 and II, Toronto
and Niagara Falls; 12 and 13, Winni
peg; 16, Minneapolis; 16 and II, Chi.
cago; is, Springfield, ILL.,; 10, st.
Louis; 20, Louisville; %, indianapolis:
20, Cleveland; "a, Pittsburgh; 25,
Washington, D. c.; 81, Richmond,
Va; 81, Philadelphia; Nov. 2, New
| York
| A delegation Of womens clubs was
informed by Hiram Johnson in Los
Angeles that "the proposed antichild
labor constitutional amendment will
receive the almost unanimous ap-
proval of the coming Congress and
then will be speedily ratified by the
states"
The Polish Countess Cecilia Potops-
kaka, whose maiden name was Kos
ciuska, and believed to be descend
ant of the American revolutionary
hero, has been sentenced to death
for espionage, on behalf of Poland,
in the alleged betrayal of 15 Polish
communists to the Polish govern
ment.
After long, long fight, the ladies
Of Canada have at last convinced the
Canadian railways that the ladies
should have equal rights with men,
and so the Canadian National con-
tinental trains leave Vancouver, B. c.,
with ladies only" smoking COM
partment attached to the sleeper
The German middle class" is fast
dying out; they are almost starving,
finding it impossible to follow their
professions, even to exc out daily
miserable existence. A wonderful
home for the aged in Charlottenburg,
opened in 1915, richly endowed, has
been obliged to close it's doors.
George Frame died recently in
| Sacramento, having passed the last
seven years Of his life penniless and
Ill at the county hospital. He was
writer and newspaper man, and
once a political leader in California.
He is said to have been the only
newspaper man surviving who accom-
panied Coxey's army on it's famous
march.
The pageant "Wayfarer" had only
nominal success during the two weeks
1t was showing in Los Angeles. The
weather was atrOcious, only five
nights of good weather, the rest
| roiuv and cold Tho pIav wac ofouod