Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-24

James A. Drain, national command
er of the American Legion, will visit
| the Washington State American legion
convention at Port Angeles, August 13,
IA and Is, he announced in letter
received at Seattle by Lloyd G. Hill,
| state legion commander.
| The Longview chamber of COM
merce has seeded four-acre tract Of
| fiber flax for experimental purposes.
The chamber has 100 pounds of regis
tered fiber flax seed which will be
| given to Cowlitz county farmers in
| 1O-pound lots for experiment.
Tacoma will entertain the superin-
tendents of schools of all counties Of
| the state on April 30, following the
conclusion of the annual meeting of
the superintendent to be held in
Olympia at the call Of Mrs. Josephine
Corliss Preston, director Of education,
April 81 to 49,
! Plans for the Identification of a
crescent-shaped lake, w miles long,
in the heart of Longview's residential
section, to begin Immediately, have
been announced by R. A. Long, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Long-Bell Lumber company, and
founder of the city. The work is to be
a personal gift from Mr.. Long.
Major Joseph Jacobs, Stirling B.
Hill and w. C. Morse, Seattle engi-
neer, are surveying a municipal n.y.
dro-electric project in the Skagit river
at Gorge creek in the Cascade noun
tains for development of additional
power at proposed expenditure Of
! $S,000,000. On their report the Sc
attic city council is expected to base
it's decision as to what will be under
taken.
Joe Pfenning and M. W. Gallagher,
Portland ex-policemen; Arthur Belit-
ski Albert Collins, John Brodala and
Henry Haberman, charged with con-
spiracy to violate the prohibition laws,
/
by possession, transportation and sale
Of intoxicating liquor, were held to
the federal grand jury at Tacoma by
United States Commissioner Kerwin,
at Vancouver, with bonds fixed at
| $1,000 each.
| Unfavorable conditions for winter
| ing range sheep and the absence of
grass on the spring ranges, which
materially decreased the lamb output
| this year, also will affect the wool
clip in Klickitat county, according to
results obtained from the shearing
of three bands at Sundale and Good
noe stations on the main line of the
| Spokane, Portland G Seattle railway
in eastern Klickitat county.
Analysis by the Smithsonian institu-
ton of the stomach of. cougar sent
to the organization for that purpose
| revealed that the animal was the one
which killed the Fahlhaber boy near
Brewster last winter. Hair was found
| which, when compared with that pick
ed up where the boy was killed, was
| declared identical. Two pieces of blue
| denim cloth also were examined, and
| they Tailed with overalls the lad was
wearing at the time of the attack.
! Reduction of taxes in Washington
by the generally recommended pro-
cess of curtailing public expenditures
| will have to come through force of
example and by moral suasion, ac-
| cording to the only possible inference
| to be drawn from the figures of the
| division of municipalities, in the Of
! flee of the state auditor. These
| figures, contained in, the annual state
ment, now in the hands of the state
printer, show the extent to which re-
auctions made by the state in the
last two years have been more than
offset by the increases of other tax
| ing units, with the net result that
taxes are higher this year than in
1924 or 1928, and expenditures Of tax
| money will be heavier. In the last
| two years the state has cut it's tax
bill by 1921, 672.47. During the same
period the county, city and district
tax-levying bodies have increased
their tax bill by 1882, 588.45.
Highway improvem ent contracts in
| four counties were awarded by the
state highway committee at Olympia
|. Three paving jobs, one bridge and
rs miles of new construction were
included in the awards. In Walla
T Walla county, on the Sunset highway,
the T. M. Morgan Paving company Of
Seattle got contract for paving four
miles between Walla Walla and Mill
creek and one mile between Walla
Walla and College Place, at total
contract price Of $170,7SS.59. The
| Colonial Building company of Spo-
kane obtained contract for construct
| ing a reinforced concrete T-beam
bridge 221 feet long on the Sunset
highway between Falls City and Sno-
qualmie in King county at $26,596.
Halleran Bros. Of Olalla received a