Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-01

sky, was killed in the fighting. but
the bandits were forced to flee with
out taking any spoils.
! WASHINGTON.-A mould-encrust-
ed leaden casket containing some
crudely fashioned leaden beads and
an undecipherable document was un-
earthed here near the spot where a
week ago was found leaden plate
bearing the name Virginia Dare
the supposed first white child born
in America. The handwritten print
on the paper or parchment could not
be deciphered.
LOS ANGELES. - Mrs. Caroline
Barnes, 81 years old, great-grand-
daughter of BENJAMIN Franklin, will
be removed from the Los Angeles
County Farm, where she is now
county charge, and will be given
comfortable home in which to spend
her remaining days, according to
plans announced recently by the Los
Angeles Advertising Club, which will
cooperate with other organizations in
assisting the aged woman.
SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA. - Tenders
for the Sydney Harbor bridge, which
it is estimated will cost about $685.
100000. closed January IT, The bids
included those by the McClintock-
Marshall Products, of New York, and
the Canadian Bridge Company. The
bridge will be one of the largest in
the world
WASHINGTON, D. C.-High COM
mendation of the motives of the Am
erican Bottlers of Carbonated Bev-
erages in establishing research fell
lowship at Iowa State College is ex-
United States Senator from New
York and former commissioner of
health of New York City. DR.. Cope
land comments at length on this ac-
ton by the manufacturers of soda
water which gives them the services
of scientific experts to improve the
quality and palatableness Of their
products.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y-"Whistling
Lyd" Hutchinson of Ashton, Idaho,
woman dog team driver, has not been
reported since she left Elizabethtown
en- route to this city from Port Henry
with dog team.
Miss Hutchinson, who was bound
for the winter sports carnival at
Montreal, said she planned to con-
tinue on to Plattsburg by the Pok-O-
Moonsine road, which is considerably
shorter than the state highway. The
temperature had fallen to rs degrees
below zero and the wind was blowing
heavily at the time.
Radio stations in this city and
Rouses Point were broadcasting her
description in hopes she would be To-
Gated by some of the scattered woods
population.
Every Indian man, woman and child
on the Colville Indian Reservation in
Washington is about to receive a be-
lated Christmas gift Of $50 cash from
Uncle Sam Secretary Hubert Work
of the Interior Department has or
dered distributed $75,45O, proceeds
from the sale of lands, among the
2,515 Indians.
EDINBURGH.-A gift of $25O,OO0
has been made by the Rockefeller
Foundation to Edinburgh University
for the erection of laboratory and
the completion of the endowment of
the professorship of surgery. In their
letter announcing the gift, the trus-
tees evinced their personal interest
in the medical enterprise of the Uni
versity of Edinburgh.
NOME.-Al Orland, one of the first
three white men to go to Nome in
1898, founding the present mining
town, died at Nome recently at the
age Of 60. He was a native of Free
port, ILL., His body will be held at
Nome until the ice breaks and the
port is open for navigation next
June, when it will probably be sent
back to Freeport for burial.
SAHARA DESERT.-For the first
time in history the great sand dunes
of the Sahara have been crossed by
automobile, and road has been op-
ened up between Southern Algeria
and Southern Tunisia, which are
| separated by an expanse Of deser