Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-03
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS Items
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information :
of Our Readers.

Kelso.
A $4,000 lodge building will be
erected in South Aberdeen by the
local branch of the National Crotiar
society.
Announcement has been made thai
the O.-W. R. & N. would discontinue
its passenger and express service be
tween Centralia and Tono April l.
Bellingham's sixth annual tulip fes
tival will be held May Z, 8 and 9. A
tulip queen will be selected from the
schools of Whatcom and Skagit coun
ties.
The new Wishkah river bridge, un
der construction at Aberdeen at cost
of 100000, will be completed and
ready for use by May i, it is an
nounced.
Edgar and Albert Robbins of Long
view bagged their second large cougar
of the season when they shot a cat
which measured nine feet six inches
from tip to tip.
Some $50 dentists Of Pacific north
western states and Canadian prov
inces attended the Washington state
dental society's annual four-day con
vention in Spokane.
Mrs. Rosalie Claire Simpson, SO,
one of General Lees special mes
sengers during the civil war, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.
G. Sears, in Seattle.
Plans for the erection at Spokane
OF a 100000 theater by Warner
brothers, motion picture producers,
we're announced by ]. G. Beckman,
their representative.
Robert Hoag, so, was killed and four
others injured when an automobile
Hoag was driving plunged backward
down a steep hill and over 35-foot
embankment at Spokane.
J. Webster Hoover of Everett will
become state highway engineer April
l, supplanting James Allen, who was
appointed by Governor Lister in 1916,
1t was said at the governors office at
Olympia.
Investigation Of the practicability
of continuation Of the states White
Bluffs Hanford soldier settlement pro.
ject has been asked of Governor Hart
ley by Lloyd Hill, state commander
of the American Legion.
Collection of 1924 taxes in Cowlitz
county set new records during the re-
bate period. Total collections were
s686,698, compared with $643,735 last
year, and 1865 receipts were issued
compared with 1855 receipts last year
The Wahkiakum county commission
ers have awarded the contract for the
construction of five small bridges on
Puget island to Holman and Lindwell
at $2707.' The same firm has the con
tract for the highway across Puget
island.
Members of the Winlock Rod and
Gun club have determined as the first
activity of the organization to en-.
deavor to secure the establishment OF
a 3,000-acre game reserve on Drew's
Prairie, and Grand Prairie, east of
Winlock.
Failing in an attempt to poison Dan.
lei Sill, chicken rancher, six miles
from Kent, midway between Seattle
and Tacoma, to get his ranch, valued
at $4,000, Mrs. Della Hannah Buoye
IS, killed herself by hanging in the
Kent city Jail.
The state department OF public
works will be represented at the in
terstate commerce commission hear
ing at Washington, D. c., March 80
on the Columbia basin wheat rate
case by O. o. Calderhead, traffic ex
pert of the department.
Differences which arose between
sheep men and the United States for
est service concerning grazing grounds
were adjusted at a meeting of the
Washington Wool Growers associa
ton advisory committee and govern
ment forest men in Yakima.
Chaplain Robert S. Stubs, one O
| the oldest ministers in the nation
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs
Charles Bedford, at Tacoma, lacking
but three months of being 102 years
of age. He was chaplain in thu
union navy during the civil war.
| A petition asking permission to form
an irrigation district on Wheeler Hill
that s65,0O0 dam may be construct
ed there this summer, was presented
to the Chelan county commissioners
There are forty-nine tracts Of Ian,
in the proposed district, totaling 81
| acres.
! Public land offices at Yakima
| Walla Wa1la and Waterville will b
closed April 30, and their jurisdiction
transferred to the Spokane land Of
| flee, it is reported. inappropriate
public land in eastern Washington t