Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-04-04

YAKIMA.-Company F Of the Yaki-
ma National Guard, an infantry unit,
Ia to be made into machine gun
company to be known as Company H.
according to instructions received
here by Captain D. G. Hilton, National
Guard instructor stationed at Yakima.
WALLA WALLA. - May % and 20
have been chosen as the dates for the
pioneer pageant, "How the West Was
Won." The success of the first pag-
cant last year caused the committee
to decide to make an annual affair OF
it.
:, WENATCHEE. - Wenatcnee will
hold her annual blossom festival on
May and 8. It is the one big COM
munity festival celebration during the
year, and this one promises to be bet
ter and bigger than ever. A chorus of
voices directed by Scott Powell, as
sisted by a 20-piece orchestra, will
furnish the music The 1924 pageant
will be another feature Of the fes-
uval
VANCOUVER, Wash The world
flight squadron, which left Glover
Field. Los Angeles, at $3.50 A. M,
March II, arrived at Mather Field,
near Sacramento, at P. NJ, travelling
at an average speed of 80 miles an
hour. They left Sacramento at Am.
March 18, arriving at Eugene, Ore,
where they halted for the night, ar
irving at Vancouver, Wash, at noon,
March 10, leaving for Seattle shortly
after.
MONTESANO. - The Pacific Con-
struction Company has been awarded
the contract for removing lOO-foot
steel span from Williams Creek, on
the Elma- -Blockhouse Road to Cloqual-
ium Creek on the Elma-Gate road, and
building a wooden trestle at Williams
Creek.
RITZVILLE. - The Adams County
game commission Is arranging for
game protection of planted trout fry
in Cow Creek. The large fish nave
been in the creek during the winter
and have devoured most of the small
fish. A dam is now being built across
the outlet of Sheep Run, with screened
spillways, which will permit the small
fish to pass, and retain the large ones.
A crowd of sportsmen went to the run
lately and seined out the big fish,
where the breeding ground has been
established.
KELSO. - Contracts for the new
Kelso Junior High School building,
which is to be erected east of the
high school, was recently awarded TO
Hoover & Mcneil. The same firm
built the Kelso High School building
two years ago.
The postoffice here
will advance from second to first
class by July 1, 1925, according to a
prediction of J. r. Fullinwider, in
spector for the United States postal
department, who was here recently.
The Longview office was established
only in January, 1923. 1t advanced
from fourth to second class within the
first year.
TACOMA-Under the auspices of
the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, a
giant log of Douglas fir will be ex-
hibited at fairs, conventions and other
gatherings along the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railway system,
this summer. The log is 80 feet long
and scales 1915 feet board measure.
1t measures 72 inches at the outt and
60 at the top.
SPOKANE.-A total of $612,654.49
was assessed in taxes against the
Washington Water Power Company
for the year 1923, representing a tax
of 1199 per cent of the gross revenue
of this public utility, according to fig
ures announced by the company. The
gross revenue of the company for last
year was $5,146,390.64, but this was
reduced approximately IL cents on the
dollar in the paying. of these city,
county, state and federal taxes.
RICHMOND BEACH.-Explosion of
to giant 55,000-barrel tanks in the
mammoth Puget Sound distributing
station of the Standard Oil Company
at Point Wells, near here, and re-
sultant fire famed by high wind,
threatened the entire $5,000O00 plant.
Damage to the extent Of $50,OO0 was
done in Is minutes. The tank where
steamed Static electricity caused by
the steam rushing through a pipe into