Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-17

Hartley, mas maze necessary tuo GIL
ployment of an additional stenograph-
er and brought an increase In the
payroll of s240 a month.
Dates for the joint convention at
Longview Of Lions clubs of Washing.
ton, Oregon, Idaho and British Co
lumbia were changed from June ~
and 20 to May 20 and 80 at confer
ence of district governors.
The first forest fire of the season,
believed to have been started by
carelessly-flung match or cigarette,
was reported to Ranger L. F. Chart
rand at Cashmere. 1t was in Yaxon
canyon, near the rangers post.
After nearly a year of bankruptcy
litigation, the new 100000 Pacific
Cedar Manufacturing company mill in
South Aberdeen was sold at public
auction for $35,25O cash. A. L.
Scharff of Tacoma was the successful
bidder
Director Olaf L. Olsen of the de-
partment. of business control announc-
ed the appointment of Donald McRae,
former sheriff of Snohomish county,
as superintendent of the capitol build
ings and grounds, in place OF John
Berkshire, resigned.
In 3O-foot power trolling boats,
Oscar Laito, Martin Pelto and August
Toyra, Aberdeen fishermen, left West
port on a 10OO-mile trip to Alaska.
Each man was alone in his own boat.
They will troll for salmon along the
Alaskan coast this summer.
Damage to alfalfa from the cold
weather of the winter has been very
heavy, E. G. Burlingame said at Wal1a
Walla. Figures he obtained showed
a Is to SO per cent loss in the Top
,penish district, about 40 per cent in
|, the Prosser, section and 40 per cent
in Gardena section.
Allotments made by the board OF
army engineers for Washington water
ways include the following: Skamok-
ava creek, $21O0; Willapa river and
harbor 100000; Grays harbor bar and
entrance, $22S,OO0; Grays harbor inner
port, Aberdeen, entrance of harbor,
and Chehalis river, $4,000.
Expulsion Of six delegates to the
Seattle Central Labor council, who
lost their seats when the council
adopted trial committees report
charging them with being communists,
was upheld in telegram received
from William A. Green, president OF
the American Federation of Labor.
The Eatonville town council has
instructed City Attorney Murray to
proceed in the preparation of dam
age case against the Cascade Timber
company, which concerns employees
are alleged in the complaint of test
case to have set the fire which almost
RACED Eatonville September 81, 1924.
The state highway committee will
hold hearing at Olympia April IA,
relative to the application of the Puget
Sound Power & Light company for
franchise to construct and operate
transmission line alongside the Pacific
highway from the vicinity of Rocky
Point, north of Kelso to Castle Rock.
State lands and timber to the ap-
praised value of $114,157.75 will be
offered at the regular quarterly land
sale to be held at the various county
seats Tuesday. The offerings include
timber valued at $71,231.5O, uplands,
$1O,298.64, and tide lands, $32,62761,
and are distributed through IA coun-
ties.
Establishment of an air mail route
that would give Seattle, Spokane, Ia
coma and Yakima a 48-hour service
from New York and 24-hour delivery
from Los Angeles is being considered
by tmaster-General New, it is re-
ported. Plans call for opening the
air lines July /, with route from
Pasco, Wash, to Elko, New.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed by the Okanogan Light and Pow
er company A power site has been
obtained near the Great Northern rail
road crossing of the Similkameen
river at Oroville. 1t Is understood to
be the intention of the company to
apply for a franchise to construct
lines down the Okanogan valley.
Proposing a $1,0O0,0O0 hydro-electric
plant on the Klamath river in Cow
litz county, Charles T. Wright of
Portland, Or, has filed an application
with the state supervisor Of hydraulics
for permission to divert 1000 second
feet from the river. The electricity to
be generated by the proposed plant
would be used for municipal lighting,
power and railroading, the applica-
ton stated. q"
Orders booked by mills of the West
Coast Lumbermens association took
big upward jump in the week end
ing March 90 Sales reported by 1913