Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-07
Washington News

1t is rumored that the Douglas Fir
Exploitation and Export Company
the largest lumber marketing organ
ization on the Pacific Coast-will be
transferred from San Francisco to
Puget Sound.
| w. j. Dudley of Yakima led with
nearly SO per cent OF. the votes cast
for the municipal primary election
for mayor. In the final election, De-
cember 8, Dudley will be opposed by
Rovig.
Elmer Heindobler, 20 years old, a
resident of Washougal, died there re-
Gently as result of being struck on
the head by falling timber as he
worked at the bottom of 4O-foot
we'll.
West Kelso, which lies to the west
side of the Cowlitz River between
Kelso's principal business district
and Longview, is rapidly developing
as business center, and building
Iconstruction on all the streets is
active.
Recently, the shipping board voted
by resolution to accept the Seattle
Port Commissions offer of 100000
for the Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding
and dock site, after a three-year fight
of municipality with private in
terests.
Under the ordinance as now
amended, all public dance halls in
Seattle must close at 1890 A. M.
Sunday and on all week days at the
same hour, prohibiting Sunday dane
ing. This ordinance goes into effect
30 days after it is signed by the
mayor.
| Seattle's waterborne commerce has
increased more than $124,OOO,OOO dur
| ing the first ten months of this
year, as compared with the figures
for 1922. Shipping men, importers
and exporters say that new pros
perity is sweeping ahead that will
smash all previous records on the
| Pacific.
| The Association of Pacific Fisheries
held their annual meeting in Seattle
last week. A stand was taken favor
ing the conservation of Alaska's fish
cries resources. Frank e. Gorrell,
secretary of the National Gamers
Association, made the principal adj
dress at the meeting.
AS result of conference between
A NIL
and members of the Commercial
Club, Lions, Kiwanis and other or
CARNATIONS, the three Yakima Ma
tional Guard companies will be re-
cruited to full strength through the
aid of the various clubs.
The Washington Irrigation & De-
velopment Company has applied to
the Federal Power Commission for a
permit to build a power dam on
Priest River that if granted will ul-
timately mean an expenditure of ap-
proximately $1O0,OOO,OOO in the state
The petitioners are believed to be a
subsidiary of the General Electric
Company
"a University of Thousand
| Years." is the title of an illustrated
article on the University of Wash
ington, in the current number of The
Outlook, by William Chaplin Collins
Seattle writer The article tells how
the University is being built, both
intellectually and physically, on plans
capable of expansion to meet all the
needs of the future. 1t appears with
an article on Seattle, by Sherman
| Rogers, industrial correspondent for
The Outlook The issue is entitled
Northwest Number of the maya
zine.
| The Washington Super-Power
League has been formed to initiate
a municipal ownership power bill to
be voted on next year. Officers elect
ed were president, Fred j. Chamber
lain, representing the state grange;
secretary, Ralph D. Nichols, former
legislator; treasurer Carl Ewald,
and vice-president, ]. NJ Belanger,
representing labor interests; Homer
7. Bone, Tacoma legislator, and Oil
yer T. Erickson. Charles H. Heigh-
ton, James w. Bryan, George B.
Lamping, and others were named on
the advisory committee.
George G. Carson, who brought
suit two years ago against the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining Company,
claiming infringement of patents, is
loser in the case, according to de-
cision in federal court. The court
held that the furnace used by the
smelter is not an infringement of
Carson's patents, but embodies the
principle of the Siemens patents.
A new production record for this
season has been reached by the can
ming plants in the Northwest, &C
cording to a report of estimates of
the 1923 pack issued by the National
Gamers Association.
| cat selling prices ranging from