Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-20


Gault, chief engineer.
Industrial accidents in the state in
creased % IL per cent during the first
six months of 1928 as compared with
the same period last year, says the
June report of the department of labor
and industries, just made public. There
were 35 fatal and 297S nonfatal acci-
dents.
Washington's commercial apple crop
gives promise of being one of the larg-
est, if not the largest, ever produced.
The indicated commercial crop is 26,-
OBJ 900 bushels as compared with 21,-
$4,000 bushels in 1922 and 24,900,00O
bushels in 1921 The total apple crop
of the state is placed at 39,58O,O0O
bushels against 25,678,00O in 1922 and
29,O62,00O in 1921.
A petition bearing about 1000 sigma
lures has been forwarded to the inter-
state commerce commission and state
department of public works asking
that the freight differential to the
Coast from Walla Walla be set aside.
The rates are 10 per cent higher to
Puget sound than to Portland and this,
is said by wheat growers, eliminates
competition for grain.
The establishment of rodeo as a
permanent celebration in Okanogan, to
keep alive the traditions of the west,
became certainty when the largest
gathering that ever attended a cele-
bration in Okonagon county was pres
ent in that city on the Fourth of July.
There were numerous attractiens~ to,
keep visitors busy. including races,
wild west events, and a parade, fea-
turing $50 Indians
The state won round in the tele-
phone rate hearing when Federal
Judge e. e. Cushman at Tacoma re-
fused to force the state to file answer
to the telephone companies bill of
complaint, filed last April The court
held that the state could not be com
PEELED to file an answer to the COM
plant in federal court so long as liti-
cation covering the rate dispute is
pending in the state courts.
9 Issdance of city bonds of $4,000
was authorized at special election at
Sunnyside recently, 81 to 5. Money
from sale Of the bonds will be used to
pay taxes levied by Yakima county for
an extensive drainage system in i'm.
provement district No. at Sunnyside.
The past due assessments are drawing
IL per cent interest and the bonds will
effect reduction of six per cent on
the Indebtedness. A sewer system to
be installed will empty into the county
drain.
A wheat crop of nearly sixty million
bushels for the state of Washington is
predicted by G. s. Ray, federal agricul-
tural statistician, in report submit
ted recently. The apple crop, too, bids
fair to be bumper one. The July esti-,
mate of the wheat crop for Washing
ton state is 59,3S2,OOO bushels, as
against an estimate of some $500, 900
bushels less on June 1. Weather con-
ditions peculiarly favorable to wheat
during the last month are responsible
for the increase
Smutproof" wheat is the newest
product of the experiment station at
Washington State college, The new
variety has been produced after 10
years experiment by Professor e. F.
Gaines, station cerealist. 1t is a cross
between Russian Turkey and the Aus
tralian drought resistant Florence, and
has proved a good yielder for four
years. A limited quantity of seed
wheat will probably be available for
distribution among Palouse farmers
next fall. Qualities of the new wheat,
and other products of experiments at
the station, will be demonstrated to
farmers at the annual excursion over
the experiment station Wednesday.
An intensive campaign to eradicate
potato bugs from the fields of south
eastern Washington was launched last
week by district horticultural offices
at Walla Walla and at Prosser it was
announced by Wendell P Brown, dis
trict horticulturist E. Hill, horticul-
turist, with headquarters at Prosser,
has gone over the situation with