Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-01

| of the jobs are on the Inland Empire
highway, two on the Olympic high
way, and the remaining three on other
state roads.
| 1t will cost the Seattle municipal
| street railway system approximately
| 100000 to comply with the mandate
| of the circuit court of appeals, hold
| ing the city liable for three-fourths of
| the general taxes LEVIED against the
system in 1919.
w. H. Paulhamus, president of the
| Western Washington Fair association,
| who has been ill for several weeks at
| his home in Sumner, is dead Short
ly before his death he selected his
! burial site on high bluff that over
| looks the lower Puyallup valley.
Planting of thousands of cutthroat
trout fry in Lake Merrill, a mountain
lake in the southeastern part of Cow
| litz county, has been delayed until the
middle of May by County Game War
| den Leichhardt as the trail to the lake
| is now impossible because of fallen
trees.
OF five forest patrol airplanes auth
orized for the Pacific coast by the
| last session of congress, one will be
stationed at Camp Lewis or Van
couver, one at Eugene, one in North
Idaho, one at Sacramento and one
! in southern California, according to
| dispatch from Washington, D. G.
| Matt Starwich, sheriff of King coun-
| ty, and Thomas ]. Mcnamara, one of
his deputies, won victory in superior
court in Seattle in $4,000 damage
suit brought against them by Harrison
,, Coles. a Seattle laborer, for false ar
rest. Coles had received an award Of
$4,000 damages in a previous trial
Mrs. A. r. Mclean of Portland was
elected president of the Columbia
| branch of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
| sionary society, Methodist Episcopal
church, at the organizations mid-year
| conference in Seattle. More than 800
women delegates from Washington,
| Oregon, Idaho and Montana attended.
Announcement of the organization
of the Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper
company, capitalized at $1,500,000, and
| immediate construction of a large
paper mill on site on the Wynooche
| river, near Montesano, was made by
D. P. Boles of Seattle, representative
of the interests that will construct
the plant.
Sales by mills of the West Coast
Lum bermens association in the week
ending April II were materially high
er than output and shipments. Book
ings for the week were 109,S74,4 70
Fleet, which was 8 per cent above the
output of 1O1,97S,762 feet Shipments
were 1O4,147,792 feet, or per cent
below new business.
| Forgery of approximately 30 auto
mobile sales contracts to raise $780,
| 900 to finance rum-running ring
was admitted in superior court in Sc
| attic by Ray Zbinden, ex-vice-presi-
dent of the Zbinden-Dodge Motor COM
| pany. Zbinden received a suspended
sentence of from one to ten years in
reformatory at Monroe.
In spite of vigorous opposition by
the owners of the present ferry at
Maryhill, the county commissioners of
Klickitat county have granted Samuel
and owner of a 5O00-acre farm at
Maryhill, license to operate ferry
from Columbus to the mouth of Span
ish Hollow, near Biggs, Or.
A petition for an injunction to re-
strain continuation of leases between
the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany and 81 firms of warehouse prop
erty along it's right of way in Spokane
was filed by United States District
Attorney Kizer in federal district
court. 1t alleges that the rental
charged is so much below the real
value of the property that it con-
stitutes violation of the federal act
prohibiting rebates by a railroad to
shippers.
Contracts for improvement of five
state highways were awarded by the
highway committee at Olympia. Three
contracts were let on the Pacific high
way as follows: Clearing and grad
| ing AS miles between Salmon Creek
| and Vancouver in Clarke county to
Johnson Construction company of
Portland, at $156,6SO54; clearing,
grading and surfacing 2.76 miles from
! Redondo south in King county to
| Coyle Construction company of Sc
attic. at SAT $685. and paving miles
between Dupont and Ponders station
| in Pierce county to F. Mcclellan Of
Seattle, at $76,07751.
Warming against land speculation
| within the area OF the Columbia basin
irrigation project was issued by Har-
| vey Lindley of Seattle, president of