Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-06-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Palouse-Farmers in the Palouse
district report that spring seeding
will be completed in few days.
There is an increase in pea acreage.
Pateros-The election held here
last Saturday by the school district
to vote on a special 10-mill levy to
construct school building and inn
prove the grounds, carried, 176 to 8.
Seattle-The first streamlined fer
ry in America is almost finished at
Seattle and will be operated on Pu-
get Sound in July between Seattle
and Bremerton. 1t will have speed
of 10 knots.
Clarkston-Ray Kelso, district hor-
ticultural inspector, reports that the
cherry crop of the Charleston valley
will not be more than rs per cent.
of normal. Since blossom season, the
slough has been heavy. The peach
crop will be about 80 per cent. nor
NAL. Apricots will be normal.
Seattle-RobertB Bruce Driscoll, 43,
who confessed to setting at least LOO
fires in Seattle over two-year Pc
riod, has been sentenced in superior
court to five to 10 years in the pen
itentiary. Driscoll pleaded guilty
May IA to second degree arson after
confessing to police he had set the
fires.
Olympia-The salary limitation inn
posed upon state code department di-
rectors by the 1885 legislature is at
tackled in a suit brought in the state
supreme court by E. X. Murray, form
er director of the department of pub
lie works. He refused to accept
cut in his salary from $500 month
to 1888, and resigned.
Kennewick- third large land
deal contaminated within the last 60
days was made last week when Cot
fin Brothers Sheep company pur-
chased 1000 acres of land in the
Horse Heaven district. The company
is now the largest single landowner
in the district, owing about $4,000
acres.
Walla Walla-Names linger though
institutions pass. l.. f. Rasmussen,
native of Denmark and resident here
Al years ago, came in last week from
his home in Ukiah and asked to be
directed to the office of the Walla
Walla Statesman. The Statesman,
which started here in 1861, winked
out in 1910. Rasmussen had better
luck locating other old-timers.
Yakima-Two million parasites
that came from Georgia by airplane
were being planted" by e. j. New
conner, government entomologist, in
eight test orchards. If they keep the
orchards clean of codling moths, thus
proving the right strain, a greater
number will be ordered. Those receiv-
ed here are tricograma, or 'trix,"
for short. They are planted at the
rate of 5000 to tree.
Prosser-The possibility of dam
being built across the Columbia riv-
er near Plymouth, in southern Ben
ton county, has caused small land
boom in the district and property
owners are paying their delinquent
taxes to keep their land titles clear.
Spectators, county officials said to-
day, have purchased land in the dis
trict, and residents there have asked
the county to put up for sale land it
holds near the river.
Aberdeen-When President Roose-
welt takes cooling plunge this sum-
mer into his Hyde Park swimming
pool he will have spring board
fashioned here from Douglas fir. 1t
will have just the right amount of
spring, it's makers, the Damitio &c
Huntley shop, said. Flawless vertical
grained fir, it measures IA feet in
length and has been tapered from 3
inches to 1 u inches on the offshore
end. 1t will be ready when the prim-
ing coat Of lead and oil is dry.