Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

The Washington State Retailers as.
ISOLATION held it's sixth annual conven.
ton in Seattle.
Joe Mavros. 40, is in Jail at Spokane,
charged with the murder of Joe Sail
and, Al, at Mantle. -
Reports from the wheat raising dis
tricts of Franklin county indicate the
best prospects for crop for several
years.
Between $3.50, 1000 and 100000 worth
of furs were sold in Seattle at an an.
nual auction of the Seattle Fur ex-
change.
Samuel H. Chase, Seattle, was
named chairman of newly-appointed
state tax commission by Governor
Hartley.
Construction is under way on two
huge sheds for the West Fir unit of
the Long-Bell Lumber company plant
at Longview.
Twenty-Five carloads of produce a
week are now being shipped from the
Walla Walla valley, heads of produce
concerns estimate.
T. |. Dodge of Elma was elected
president of the Southwest Washing
ton Pioneers association at meet
hNI of
An executive order has been issued
setting aside 100 acres adjoining the
Wenatchee national forest to be used
as a station for forest rangers.
The legality of the $4,OO0,OO0 capitol
land and timber grant bond issue, au-
thorized by the 1925 legislature, was
upheld by the state supreme court.
A thorough probe of the White
Bluffs-Hanford soldier settlement
project by the state commander of
the American Legion will be made.
Announcement was made at Werat-
chez by the Lake Chelan Fruit Grow
ers, Inc, that $4,000 addition would
be made to the cold storage plant at
Chelan.
A statewide safety conference to be
held in Seattle May 16 was announced
by Martin ]. Flyzik supervisor of safe
ty of the department of labor and in
dustries.
An election will be called by the
Vancouver port commission to vote on
proposition to bond the port for
{ 100000 to extend the city dock 400
feet to the east.
A note to his family and discharg
ed pistol were found beside the dead
body of G. G. Ketchum, barber and
pool shop man at National. The man
had shot himself.
Mrs. G. r. Green Seattle, was ap-
pointed inspector of bakeries by Ira
H. Case, supervisor of foods in the
department of agriculture, to succeed
Mrs. Coffin, Tacoma
A quarantine against smallpox
quiring all persons entering the Uni
ted States from Vancouver, B. c., to
be vaccinated, has been lifted.
John w. Miller, 48, was instantly
killed when he was caught under the
logs of runaway train at the camp
of the Washington Fir & Lumber conn
lock.
Raymond ]. Groat, SO, employed by
at Stevenson, was killed instantly
when car on which he was riding
left the track and overturned, pinning
him underneath.
Warren Delaine, IA, while playing
with two small companions near his
home on Lopez island, was killed
when he was struck by a stone hurled
by an explosion of dynamite with
which the boys were playing.
Tacoma mills $500 barrels of flour
a day, an output only 500 barrels un-
der that of New York city, according
to figures in the latest bulletin on
wheat circulated by the government
bureau of railway economics.
Leonard L. Kidd 40, who has been
mail carrier in Seattle for 20 years,
admitted to postoffice inspectors TAX
ing an insured package containing jew
elry valued at $4,000 Five diamond
rings and a watch were recovered.
John G. Denney, director of public
works, attended a milk and cream
rate hearing before the interstate
commerce commission in Salt Lake
City, April 81. The hearing was the
first of series in western states.
The largest apportionment ever dis
tributed to the schools of Clarke coun-
ty was received by the county school
superintendent. The total was $119,-
1O7.72. OF this sum $SO,O27.S4 was
from the state and $3O,O79.SS from the
county
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