Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
Washington News

injuries in dynamite explosion while
removing cherry trees. After placing
charge in the roots of the tree, he
retired to a safe place to await the
blast. When the dynamite failed to
explode, Mr.. Phillippi went to inves-
tigate, when, just as he got to the
tree the charge exploded.
SMATTLE-Twenty thousand dol
lars worth Of high-grade liquors and
wines gushed into the slough of the
city dump recently. The booze was
the accumulation resulting from raids
on rum-runners and bootleggers the
past six months. During the past
two years more than 100000 worth
of liquors, estimated at the retail fig
ures, has been destroyed by the
sheriff.
OLYMPIA. - State Supervisor of
Forestry F. S. Pape is feeling sud-
denly officially poverty stricken, in
the loss of some $4,000 return ex-
pense money which he thought that
the last legislature had arranged to
have come back to his available ap-
preparation; but the idea is knocked
into cooked hat by the opinion of
the attorney-general to the contrary.
It has long been the law that one
third of the expense of forest fire
protection, incurred in each county
each season, shall be charged against
the county and to be reimbursed. An
amendment was procured at the last
legislature providing such repayment
should be credited to the fund ap-
propriated for the division Of fores-
try" Legislative appropriation of the
division was also reduced $4,000 from
the previous appropriation, as an Off
set. State Treasurer G. l.. Babcock
recently asked Acknowledgement John
H. Dunbar just what this amendment
meant. The conclusion is reached
that the legislature did not, by the
use of the words credited to the fund
appropriated" intend to appropriate
this special fund. So Supervisor Pape
feels the forestry division has been
shortchanged $4,000 somewhere in
the transaction.
TACOMA. - Alvin Heinrich presi-
dent of the North Coast Products
Company Of Aberdeen, was elected
president of the Washington State
Bottlers Association at the annual
meeting here. Other officers elected
were A. L. Van Staley Of Everett,
vice-president; j. G. Fox Of Seattle,
treasurer; F. L. Schuller of Ellens-
burg, reelected secretary; Fred Mar
tin of the Imperial Beverage Company
of Spokane, trustee.
KELSO.-Mrs. Simon Caspar died
last week at her home, two miles east
Of here, from tetanus, which developed
recently after she stepped on a nail.
LONGVIEW.-The first unit of one
Longview creamery and storage plant
is nearing completion and construc-
tion has started on another. Highland
dairy will soon be dispensing pas
teurized milk and making butter.
KENNEWICK. - Pneumonia, COM
plicated with injuries received in an
auto wreck two years ago, resulted in
the death of Mr.. o. Kitten, IS, here
recently. Mr.. Kitten, former banker
and extensive property owner, had
large holdings in Washington and
California.
HOQU1AM.-Two thousand logging
camp employees, who were laid off in
camps of Grays Harbor several weeks
ago, were put to work again recently,
and many of the closed camps have
reopened.
BELLINGHAM.-B. G. Young, of
the Bellingham Hatchery, reports that
the hatchery has received more or
ders for eggs and chicks than it can
supply, and that its hatchery, which
has capacity for 100000 eggs, will
be filled two or three times this year..
SEATTLE-Capt. w. B. Allison,
former assistant corporation counsel,
has donated 500 volumes to the Uni
versity of Washington law school H.
brary, according to an announcement
made recently by Arthur s. Beardsley,
librarian. The presentation includes
Lawyers Reports" Washington Re-
ports Of Code and Session Laws" and
British Ruling Cases."
WENATCHEE. - Thursday, March
Is, will mark an epoch in the history
Of Elkdom in North Central Wash
ington. On that date, for the first
time, officers and many members Of
Wenatchee Lodge, No. 1885, B. P. o.
E., will go to Okanogan, where class
of 100 candidates, living in and around
Okanogan, will be initiated. A spe-
cial train will be run from Wenatchee.
RIDGEFIELD.-Mr and Mrs. John
H. Morton, living in the Pioneer dis
trict near Ridgefield, celebrated their
58th wedding anniversary recently
Mr. Morton is a veteran of the Civil
War, having served in the 154th In.
diana Regiment of the Army of the
Potomac. Thirteen children were