Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-08
Worlds News

benjamin SlS1u was LOU up Wy tWo
men who ran up the steps and pointed
a revolver at him.
ANNAPOLIS, N. S.-The green ap-
ple pack OF the Annapolis Valley for
1898 has been estimated at 100000
barrels, OF which las, ,40S barrels have
been shipped to different Canadian
markets.
RABAT, MOROCCO.-A tidal wave
recently did extensive. damage to
shipping and docks at Rabat The
waterfront for miles was inundated.
SAN ANCISCO-Births exceeded
deaths In San Francisco in 1928.
hight thousand seven hundred and
forty-eaght births and 1902 deaths
were recorded. OF the births, 1889
were males and 4,159 females, and
among them were 80 sets of twins.
HONOLULU, T. H. - Charles ].
Kraebel, assistant territorial forester
Of Hawaii. will leave here en- route to
Glacier National Park, Montana, of
which he is to become superintendent.
He formerly was of Portland, Ore.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.-Twenty-
nine million pounds of halibut were
landed at this port during the past
year, figures for December being still
incomplete This is considerably
in excess of the previous year.. Sew
eral large shipments went to Chicago
and other Middle Western states.
TORONTO.-Directo of the Rock
efelief Foundation at their December
meeting appropriated $1,100,000 for
the University of Toronto Medical
School and s500,0O0 for the Medical
School of the University of Alberta.
The donations were made in line with
previous pledges.
MOSCOw.-Thef funeral service for
the late Premier Lenine OF Russia
was solemn spectacle. Thousands
Of villagers from nearby and distant
places trudged to the square where
the House of Unions is situated and
where the body lay in state. The
IcAA pei dLul Z was IdI DOloW ACiOJ cshSe
many scantily clad among the pill
grims must have suffered terribly
from the cold.
SONORA, CALIFORNIA.-Mrs Ma
rian Longfellow Morris, poet, lectur-
er, translator, charter member of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion and niece of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow. died recently at Shawmut,
Tuolumne County. She passed away
at the home OF her son, Henry Wads-
worth Morris, with whom she had re-
sided for several years. Mrs. Morris
was born in Portland, Me-, rs years
ago.
LONDON.-The efforts of Scotland
Yard authorities to stamp out illicit
traffic in narcotics are proving sue
oessful. 1t was announced during the
course of a case at Marlborough po-
lice court that, thanks to the strenu-
GUS police campaign, the traffic is be-
ing suppressed. Many captures of
"traffickers" have recently been made
and scores of prosecutions in police
nave U6GI Iu6 Iu6dlS Ol CuSCh-
ing the sale of the drugs.
AUGSBURG, BAVARIA. = st. Ul-
rich's church clock marks time no
longer, and it's historic chimes no more
sound the hours for the old city. Mes
ner, the sacristan has struck. He was
paid only 100000 paper marks from
April to September for his services.
AS he had to climb 1853 steps daily to
keep the clock wound up, he said that
his wages fell short of buying the
shoe soles he wore out on the rough
old stone steps to the belfry. So he
quit after SO years service to search
for more profitable employment.
ST. PAUL. - The Great Northern
Railway earned by Az % net opera
ting income on the value of their
property in 1923, according to a re-
port issued by Ralph Budd, president.
The report also showed that 1928
taxes were $92O0,OO0, as compared
with $4,276,S9S in 1913.
WASHINGTON, D. G. = Professor
Arthur H. Blanchard nationally
known authority on highway trans
portation and highways, has accepted
appointment as a member of the Re-
search Council of the National Trans
portation Institute.
Professor Blanchard has won wide
recognition as an educator and as
highway engineer. He is connected
with the department of civil engineer
ing of the University of of Michigan
as professor of highway engineering
and highway transport. He is presi-
dent of the National Highway Traffic
Association and president of the Am
erican Road Builders Association.
HALIBUT COVE, ALASKA-Hali-
but Cove is the greatest herring
ground in the world. Out of a la
goon mile long and a half a mile
deep, $4,000 barrels of herring we're
taken during the season. The fish
rush into the lagoon in billions early
in the winter to escape from whales,