Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-10

| carried at a special election by nearly
a two-to-one vote.
Sales by 121 reporting mills of the
| West Coast Lumbermen's association
| for the week ending March 81 were
104,SO1,16 feet. This was per cent
above production Of 101,337,293 feet
Shipments of 89,928,551 feet were IA
per cent below new business.
A four-year nationwide search fol
the man believed by police to be the
murderer OF Harry E. Hallen, 27-year
old assistant superintendent of the
Griffin Wheel works Of Tacoma, was
| brought to its close when Gino Spade
nj, laborer, was arrested by San Fran
cisco police.
o. o. Calderhead, traffic and rate ex
pert in the department of public works
for 20 years, has been appointed SUI
pervisor of public utilities. H. O.
Berger, assistant traffic inspector, was
| promoted to fill the vacancy. The po
sition of assistant traffic expert will
be abolished.
The packing plant Of the Washing
ton Growers Packing corporation at
Vancouver is preparing 100000 pounds
OF prunes for shipment by April Is.
Only small percentage of the 1924
crop remains unsold, and everything
will be cleaned up before the new
crop is harvested.
Transportation of explosives over
highways in the state in motor ve-
hicles must be regulated to eliminate
hazard to other travel, John c. Den
ney, director Of public works, has
decided, and rules and restrictions
governing such transportation are
now being considered.
Two men, believed to be George
Wiley, 60, address unknown, and e.
Eastman, IS, of Springfield, Or, were
killed instantly when they stepped
from behind freight train into the
direct path of northbound passenger
on the Northern Pacific tracks one
mile south of Vader.
Nelson T. Harrison has resigned
after three years as solicitor for the
internal revenue department of the
treasury in Washington city, his
father has announced. The father is
Willard T. Harrison, collector Of Gus
toms for the district of Washington,
with headquarters in Seattle.
Two convicts in the Oregon state
penitentiary in an interview with
A. M. Dalrymple, warden of the in
stitution, confessed that they murder
ed an unidentified man whose body
was found buried in a shallow grave
near the Tilton river, % miles east
of Chehalis, by Joe Coleman, deputy
sheriff of Lewis county.
R. M. Burke, manager of the Wash
ington Dehydrated Food company
plant at Wenatchee, announced the
closing of the most successful season
in the history Of the concern, having
used more than 100 cars of Gull apples.
There were 80 people employed dur
ing the last six months and growers
received about $4,000 for culls.
Strict quarantine regulations have
been adopted by the department of
public health and guards placed at
Blaine, Sumas and Lynden to prevent
any one from entering the United
States from Vancouver, North and
South Vancouver, Point Gray and
Burnaby, B. c., who has not been
vaccinated within year and can
show a certificate of vaccination.
Application for three franchises to
construct and operate power lines
along certain county roads has been
made to the Lewis county commission
ers by the Puget Sound Power & Light
company. The franchises would run
Is years. One covers roads in the vi
cinity of Winlock, another near Littell
and the third in the Sawall and Port
land Place additions to Centralia.
Though officials of the department
of agriculture say 1t is much too early
to be sure of this years fruit con-
dition, they agree that the present
conditions in the fruit districts are
generally favorable. Losses in some
parts of the state will be experienced
in peaches, pears, cherries and some
small fruits, due to severe winter
weather. All indications are for an
unusually good apple year.
The proposed power and reclama-
tion development at Priest Rapids,
will be one of the finest boosts the
Columbia basin project could receive,
Arthur Turner, widely known North
western engineer, told members Of
the Columbia basin committee of the
Spokane chamber of commerce. In
addition to the advertising the Priest
Rapids project would give the basin,
! the capital outlay for the basin pro-
| ject would be materially reduced,
without increasing the per acre cost,
| Turner said.