Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-29
FEBRUARY

which the commission issued a com.
plaint in May, 1921. Senator La Fol
lette's opposition was announced after
Commissioner Huston Thompson had \
testified at hearing before the Sen
ate Interstate Commerce Committee
that he was called to the White House
by Mr.. Christian and criticized for
having voted without giving the com.
pany hearing.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Pepeliayiv, for
mer commander of the Siberian White
Army, with 20 of his followers, has
been sentenced to death by the mill
tary tribunal at Chita for their coun-
ter-revolutionary activities in Siberia
after Kolchak's defeat. Fifty-seven
others were given various prison SEN
tences. A stay Of execution, however,
has been ordered by the Siberian rev.
olutionary committee, who have asked
the Federal Central executive to par
don the prisoners.
SOUTH MANCHESTER, Conn. -
scholarships by the British Society of
Architects in connection with which
one of the British holders is required
to spend six months of architectural
study in the United States" said Hor-
ace B. Cheney, silk authority, sis a
modern example of the way govern
ments have always sent emissaries to
study the art of another nation"
WASHINGTON - Rear Admiral
Selfridge, retired, died at his home
here recently of heart disease. He
would have reached his SSth birthday
had he lived another day. Admiral
Selfridge and his father, who bore the
same name and attained the same
rank, served the Navy for 1O6 years;
the elder enlisting in 1878. The young
er man achieved fame in the Civil
War
OSTON.-Inoculate with toxin,
anti-toxin,' against diphtheria, 25 stu
dents at the McElwain School, at
Bridgewater, and 10 at Concord Acad-
emy, have become infected and are
dangerously ill. The serum had been
, frozen during the late cold spell, and
then thawed out, which was RESPONSE
BILE for the serious results that fol
lowed it's administration. The physi-
clans think that there will be no last
ing bad results to the victims.
MIDDLESBOROUGH, KY. - Gus
tave Salomez refused to leave the
poorhouse recently to claim $1,000
| 600 estate he has inherited. Il don't
want the money! have been lodging
it for 80 years." Salomez told John
| Salomez, a nephew, who came here
from Louisville and identified the
heir. He told his nephew to go back
| to Louisville alone. You can have
the million-I don't want it," he said
| NEW ORLEANS. - For the first
time since 1895 the dripping feun-
tain at the Old Absinthe house has
stopped The marble slab under the
faucet, worn almost through by the
constant drip from the siphon, is dry.
| NO gentleman ever drank abSlnthS
mixed with a spoon. The absinthe had
to be placed in a glass and then slow
| ly dissolved by the drip from the
fountain.
PHILADELPHIA Herbert
Levermore of New York, student OF
international relations and former
college professor, was announced re-
Gently as the winner of the 100000
prize offered by Edward w. Box
Philadelphia publisher, for the bes
plan to preserve peace among the ma
tions of the world. Half of the prize
was awarded to Mr.. Levermore al
once; the other half will be given il
the plan is accepted by the Congress
st of the United States.