Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

most the final one to be made for the
| 1923 pools.
Announcement was made by Senator
Norman, following trip to Olympia
to confer with State Highway Engi-
| neer Hoover, that the entire appro-
priation of 100000 for the Raymond
Aberdeen road would be expended On
work from the Raymond end.
The city of Auburn, proposing de-
| velopment of municipal water sup
ply project to cost approximately
| 100000, has filed an application with
the state supervisor of hydraulics for
water rights to Is second-feet from
| the Stuck river in King county.
A 365-acre tract has been added to
| the 80 acres occupied by the federal
| penitentiary on McNeils island in Pu-
| get sound, it was announced by feder.
al authorities. Government timber in
the Olympics was exchanged for the
tract, school section owned by the
state.
Virtually every available able
bodied business man in Colfax was
out on squirrel poisoning cam
paign last week. Thousands of pounds
| of cyanide was distributed and the
hills in the vicinity of Colfax were
covered with men, carrying cans OF
the poison.
For the first time in history, tomato
growers of the Walla Walla valley
will fight frost with fire. F. E. Mo-
| jonnier, president of the Freewater
| Tomato Growers association, states
| that orchard heaters will be used as
an experiment by dozen to Is Of the
larger growers.
This st1te is not getting full value
for the money it is spending, c. E.
Arney of Seattle, secretary of the
State Association of Taxpayers
leagues, told the Walla Walla chamber
of commerce. There is too much du-
| plication of courses in the institutions
| of higher education, he said.
A citizens committee in Seattle,
created February 10 by Mrs. Henry
| Landes, then acting mayor, reports
that traffic fatalities in the first quar-
ter of 1925 were 1913 per cent more
than in the same period last year.
Traffic fatalities in Seattle in the first
three months of 1924 were six, and
this year rs.
While some timber operators in the
state are complaining of the dreary
are clamoring for an opportunity to
| buy state timber in such quantities
that the state has three crews of tim.
Der cruisers at work instead of the
customary one, Clark " Savidge, com
missioner of public lands, declares.
Due to certain rules and practices
of the United States supreme court,
the state has had to wait IL years
for refund of an overpayment of fees
for printing of documents in connec-
ton with case heard by the court
in October, 1908, John H. Dunbar,
attorney-general, has discovered. A
check for $554.13 has just been re-
ceived by the state from William R.
stansbury, clerk of the court.
A stone marking the place near
where the great Indian council of 1855
was held was dedicated at Walla
Walla by Narcissa Prentiss chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton The stone was erected on a
part of the public library lot. 1t was
near where Governor Stevens met
| with chiefs of the Nez Perez, Yakima,
Cayuse and Walla Walla Indian tribes
May 20 to June II, 1855, and reserva-
lions were allotted to the Indians.
A permanent site for headquarters
for the summer exercises of the mill
tia of the state has been chosen, Brig
adler General Clarence B. Blethen,
commanding the National Guard of
Washington, announced. Major A. w.
McMorris, U. S. A., assisted in the
choice. The site is Stony ridge, at
American lake, heavily wooded and
commanding view of the parade
ground. For the summers camp, at
which $500 men are expected, the site
is to carry two mammoth tents and IA
smaller ones.
Two eastern Washington paving
contracts taken under advisement
April IA when the bids were opened,
have been awarded by the state high.
way committee, The contract for paw
ing 55 miles Of the Inland Empire
highway between Dixie and Coppei in
Walla Walla county was awarded to
Homer G. Johnson of Walla Walla on
his bid of $3.50, 429.46, and the con-
tract for paving one mile of the same
highway from Yakima north was
awarded to Hardy & Richings of Yak