Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-11
VOL. XIV.
Washington News

From small railway station, Kelso
has developed into thriving little
city, as result Of the Long-Beu de-
velopment at Longview. Population
is growing rapidly in addition to
big building boom.
Owing to an extensive newspaper
advertising campaign being conduct
ed by oyster growers, Olympia's ia
nous oyster, once considered a loWly
sea food, is developing into ma
tional epicurean delight; market for
these oysters has shown great growth
in recent months.
Traffic accidents in Seattle during
the Christmas week were very nu-
merous. There were 271 accidents
one person killed and 81 persons in
iured. The police have promised a
more thorough investigation of every
traffic accident. Harsh penalties
should be put on the offenders wher-
ever possible.
The federal penitentiary on Nc
Neil Island is oyercrowded, yet there
are between 35 and 40 persons await
ing sentence in the United States
District Court. Federal Judge Ne
terer recently delayed judgment up
on two prisoners until word had been
received from Washington, D. c., as
to where new prisoners were to be
sent.
At the annual meeting Of the board
of directors of the Pacific Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition, held in
Portland recently, e. A. Stuart of Sc
attic was reelected president All
the other officers were reelected.
Reginald H. Parsons of Seattle was
elected director, succeeding the
late G. l.. Hawley.
The postoffice at Lopez, Wash, in
San Juan County, was burned re-
Gently. The postoffice was located
in the Lopez Trading Company build
ing, which went up in flames. The
loss was small, as the office safe, in
which practically all the money,
stamps and other valuables were
stored, fell into shallow water over
which one end of the building stood
when it collapsed, and later will be
salvaged
To hold floating school in Arctic
waters for the next two or three
months, the federal bureau of educa-
ton power schooner Boxer" left re-
f1, tI1 nt1y oc1Yo
Eskimos and Indian youths, eight of
whom were brought South for view
of Puget Sound, on the schooner's
last voyage, will comprise the class
Of students and a portion of the
crew. They will study navigation,
engineering wireless and allied sub
jects.
Mrs. John Dobson died at Colum-
-bia City recently. She was daughter
of line of Nova Scotia and Wash
ington pioneers. Her age was 49,.
She was a native of Nova Scotia,
and came to Puget Sound in 1888;
her husband died in Columbia City
three years ago. She is survived by
two sons, County Commissioner
Thomas Dobson Of Seattle, and Will
!, lam Dobson of Yakima, and daugh-
ter Mrs Fred Axey of Columbia
City.
+ The Great Northern Railway Com
pany is preparing a folder featuring
-tdude ranches and similar resorts in
< the territory traversed by it's system.
Many so-called dude ranches" have
sprung up in the Northwest They
really cannot be classed as resorts,
i but places where those in search Of an
outdoor vacation or to acquire robust
health may obtain accommodations
and engage in recreation at reason
able cost. F. w Graham, assistant
!. agent of the railways agricultural de-
yelopment bureau at Seattle is list
ing these dude ranches and similar
resorts and will be glad to have infor-
nation of this kind that will be use
full
Through the efforts of County
Agent A. E. Lovett and number of
: leading farmers of Yakima County,
program of work has been mapped
out for the year 1924. Included in