Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-29
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

mayor Of Port Angeles. died in Spo-
kane.
Lee Blake, age As, ferryman at Jer'
ONE, ON the Columbia river, was
drowned.
The Chewelah chamber Of com.
merce Mothers day banquet was held
at the Yale hotel with 20 in attend
ance.
Eastern brook trout to the number
of 1,25O,OOO have been planted in the
waters of Lake Cavanaugh near Mount
Vernon.
Representative Albert Johnson ar
rived at his home in HoQuiam Friday
after a drive across the continent by
automobile.
Ray Brammell Of Concrete, who was
stabbed when he interfered in fam
lily quarrel between Joe Desantis and
his wife is dead.
The state roads policy of "pay as
you go" and the building of concrete
roads were indorsed by the Pomona
grange of Clarke county.
Sam B. Hill, representative of Wat
erville is i'll in Washington, D. G. He
has high fever and physicians fear
he is suffering from influenza.
Clarke county officials are COM
mended and the county declared to
be in an enviable financial position by
State Examiner M. F.. Edwards.
Thomas Kinniard of Port Angeles,
fireman, was killed when he fell from
the cab of his locomotive in the Lyon
G Hill railway yards at Ovington.
Dirt and gravel roads in Clarke
county, closed to trucks last October,
have been opened, as the ground has
dried sufficiently to prevent damage.
Rev. Simon Arthur Huston was con-
secrated bishop of the diocese of
Olympia, in the presence of seven
Episcopal bishops at San Antonio,
Texas.
Representatives of the Colville
chamber of commerce accompanied
County Agent Henry j. Plumb in a
tour of the northern part of Stevens
county.
F. A. Pier, for Ia years editor of the
Big Bend Outlook, died at his home in
Almira, following an apoplectic stroke.
from which he never regained con-
seriousness.
Matt Martella, farmer whose home
is three miles south Of Winlock, died
at Chehalis from bullet wound re-
ceived when he was shot by a neigh
bor Mike Koski.
The annual convention of the Wash
fngton State Press association will
be held in Spokane August 81 and %,
it was announced by o. H. Woody,
Okanogan, president.
A total of 6O3 cows were tested in
the Lewis County Cow Testing assoc
citation in April, the average produc-
ton of which was 1O47 pounds of milk
and 37.9 pounds of butterfat.
The annual state convention of
knights of Columbus was held in Van.
couver Sunday, Monday and Tues
day with 116 delegates from all parts
of the state in attendance.
Bids will be received by the Lewis
county commissioners June / for the
gravcling Of the five miles of the
Vader-Ryderwood highway from Vader
to the Cowlitz county line.
Carl Nelson, 40, connected with tho
Northwest Logging company at Aber-
deem, was stabbed and seriously
wounded by Mrs. Minnie Egnacio, who
claims that Nelson insulted her.
The Spokane hotel, for IS years
favorite with travellers, has passed in
to the hands of the Norman brothers
Of Seattle, who announce that they
will spend $150,O0O in improveme
Road improvement in Clarke county
this year will include new bridge
ever the east fork of Lewis river at
Heisson. The Orchard-Camas road
will be surfaced at an expense of $685..
600.
Approximately 1880 acres of public
land were added to the Wenatchee
national forest by an executive order
issued ON the recomm endation OF the
secretaries of the interior and agricui.
ture.
Hay shippers Of the Yakima valley,
at meeting at Toppenish organized
the Hay Shippers association, elect
ing w. E. Hawley of Yakima presi-
dent and Don M. Carr Of Toppenish
secretary.
The $4,000 necessary to send the
University of Washington varsity and
supervarsity crews to the Poughkeep-
sic regatta, June %, is now assured,
the Seattle chamber of commerce
pledging $15,SOO.
Rev. Frederick w. Carsten OF Olym-
pia was chosen PRESIDENT L. l.. Verick
Of Charleston, first vice-president;