Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-10
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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A meeting of Clarke county Hol
stein breeders will be held in Van
couver, April 2.
The first meeting of the Whitman
County Methodist Laymen's associa
ton was held at Colfax.
All wheat seeding in Adams coun
ty is finished. Farmers say that the
soil is in better shape than for many
years.
Committees OF the Centralia cham
Der Of commerce are working Out
plans for a gala week April Z to IL
inclusive.
Joseph Senior age SO, for 40 years
resident of Cotton district, died
at the Colfax hospital from cancer
of the stomach.
John Lonnroth, sailor in the
world war, was operated upon al
Wa}la Walla hospital. This was mis-
SSth operation.
l.. S. Brockway, bookkeeper, was
arrested at Seattle on a charge of EN-
bezzling $4,000 from three real es
tate concerns.
More than $50 delegates attended
the fifth annual convention at Seattle
of the. Retail Credit Mems association
of the Pacific northwest.
One full carload of bees, about 2,
100000 arrived at Walla Walla last
week for Carl F. Buck, who is running
bee farm at College Place.
Mrs. Margaret Rider, %, died a
Vancouver from injuries received II
an automobile accident on the Battle
Ground highway near Orchards.
Elmer Manhart was convicted al
Seattle of first degree murder for kill
ing Mrs. Lillian Helen Morley of Vic
toria, B. c., in taxicab February l.
For the third time within three
years patrons of the Selah school dis
trict will vote April on issuing bonds
to erect a $4,000 high school build
ing. tt
Directors of the Yakima CONNER.
cial club have authorized member.
ship meeting April Is to vote on re-
organizing the club into a chamber OF
commerce.
Heavy oil and gas showings have
been encountered in. the well of the
Columbia Basin Oil company near At.
Italia. The will has reached a depth
of 345O feet. p
A conference of representatives OF
each state hotel mems organization
on the Pacific coast has been arrang
ed to take place in Tacoma on May
II and 10.
Clas Swanson, 81, of Ritzville, inner
tied a fortune estimated at nearly ST.,
100000 when his brother, Charles L
Swanson Of Chicago, livestock man
died February 90.
Scab has broken out in sheep be-
longing to Dr. A. 2. Thompson, be.
tween Prosser and Grandview. Steps
are being taken to prevent it spread.
ing to other flocks.
Alex Geyso, Mrs. Freida Geyso and
Joe Trinko, all of Clear Lake, are dead
as the result of what the police be
lieve was double murder and suicide
in a residence at Aberdeen.
Two men, armed with sawed-oft
shotguns, held up an employe OF
Armour & Co., meat packers, in an
outlying district of Spokane and es
capped with a payroll of $4,000.
Heavy court dockets resulted in
Judge ]. T. Ronald of the King coun
ty superior court asking Governor
Roland H. Hartley to assign judges
from other districts to King county.
John P. Mark of Seattle, a world
war veteran, died from injuries re
ceived when an automobile in which
he was riding plunged from the Mon
tesano-Aberdeen highway near Aber
deem.
Lumber sales for rail delivery TO!
the week ending March FL set new
high mark, according to the week.!
trade review of the West Coast Lum
bermens association. The sales total
ed 2068 carloads.
A power development on the Toutl
river in Skamania and Cowlitz coun
ties is proposed in an application TO
a preliminary permit filed with tn
federal power commission by DR.. Her
ry Waldo Coe of Oregon.
Elmer l.. Smith, "entralia attorne,
disbarred by the state supreme cour
February "a on charges that he ad
vocated I. w. w. principles in viola
ton of his oath as an attorney, ha
filed petition for rehearing.
Fire at Yakima destroyed loading
platform and ice conveyor of the va
kima Artificial Ice & Cold Storag
company and heater house owne'
by the Pacific Fruit Express company
with total loss estimated at $4,000