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The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
BIC FIRE SUIT
ENDS SATURDAY
BY SETTLEMENT
Biles-C Coleman, w. w. P. Of
ficials Arbitrate Quarter
Million Dollar Suit
Ends Long Action
Court Battle Waged Since Fire
Destroyed Omak Factory
In 1929

Closing this county's longest
fought civil court legal battle, repre-
sentatives of the Biles-C Coleman
Lumber company and the Washing
ton Water Power company last
week agreed to settlement of the
damage action in which the local
firm was awarded a jury judgment
of $247, 1855 year ago.
r. L. McNett, president of the
Biles-Coleman Lumber company,
Informed the Tribune yesterday
that an agreement had been reached
in conference which he attended
at Spokane Friday and Saturday,
but declined to state the exact
amount of the settlement.
Lumber Firm Satisfied
1.-THE amount agreed upon was
highly satisfactory to the Biles-
Coleman Lumber company and the
settlement provided for payment in
cash." he declared.
Saturday noon the case was off,
cially closed when release of judg-
ment, signed by Mr.. McNett and A.
NJ. Aston, lumber firm executive
secretary, was filed in superior court
with A. M. Mikel, county clerk.
In its original complaint filed
shortly after the fire which in 1929
RACED the lumber companys Omak
factory, and destroyed large supply
of lumber products, the Biles-C Cole
man Lumber company asked dam
ages totaling more than half a mil
lion dollars.
This amount was decreased In
subsequent amended complaints.
The issue of the case remained the
same, however, and involved the
charge that employees of the Wash
ington Water Power company, call
ed to thaw frozen pipes in the fac
tory warming room, had used
electrical thawing equipment negli-
gently and in such a way that pipes
and wires had become overheated
and started the fire.
After two or three years of delay
the case finally was taken before q
superior court jury at Okanogan in
April, 1884, and a verdict for $247,-
355 was awarded the lumber COM
pany "a days after the case started.
The power companys attorneys i'm
mediately filed a motion for judg-
ment notwithstanding the verdict.
and for q new trial, both of which
were denied.
Shortly after a notice of appeal
was filed with the state supreme
court and the hearing was set for
June 20 of this year. Last Friday
the supreme court announced that
the hearing had been reassigned fol
Friday, July IL. At the same time
representatives of the two firms
were concluding negotiations for the
settlement at Spokane.
The Judgment awarded by the
jury last spring is declared to be
the largest ever brought in by q
jury in the history of the state. The
case, both before and during the
trial, drew statewide attention.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED
AFTER FERRY COUNTY KILLING
Harry Nanamkin Faces Charge
Of Beating Wife To Death
Last Week
Taken To Spokane
Accused Man Lodged In Jail
There; Claims Wife Fell
From Horse

Harry Nanamkin, SO, was arrested
and taken to the Spokane county
jail at Spokane late last week on
charge of beating his wife to death
on the Colville Indian reservation
near Republic.
Nanamkin, who is we'll known to
many Nespelem residents, was tax
en- into custody by deputy United
States marshals after his actions
had directed suspicion toward him.
According to information given
Ferry county authorities, Nanamkin
withheld news of his wife's death
for several hours, finally telling
some friends that she had fallen off
a horse and was badly injured.
When Investigators arrived at the
scene they found the body, which
apparently had fallen or been
thrown into a small gulch near the
road.
Deputy Marshal Ray Kurtz said
the woman was killed after
drinking party Tuesday or Wednes-
day.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Swimmer Conquers
Columbia River
"Tag" Tagtmeier Crosses Swift
Current In 10 Minutes Sum
day; Thousand Watch

GRAND COULEE DAM-Roland
"Tag" Tagtmeier, United States
champion long distance swimmer,
dove into the Columbia Sunday
from raft moored at the north
end of the cofferdam, and emerged
better than half mile down
stream on the opposite shore, ten
minutes later.
The speed with which he was
carried down stream was wildly
shown in comparative times be-
tween his passing under the foot
bridge, past the state highway
bridge. He landed just below the
latter, where he climbed aboard the
tug "Vagabond," to be brought back
to the float on the east shore. A
thousand or more people lined the
shore to watch the feat.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Bill Condor Wins
Pioneer HOnOrs
At ilbur Meet

Thousands of old-timers shook
their head in envy when Bill Con-
don, widely-known Nespelem pion-
eer, signed his name on the regis
tration book at the annual picnic of
Big Bend pioneers held last Thurs
day at Wilbur.
After scanning the book they
learned that he had come here in
1878, some 81 years ago, topping the
70 pioneers who had lived in the
region more than SO years by wide
margin.
Condor was born at Lyons ferry,
near Washtucna, in 1873 and came
with his parents to the Nespelem
district when just few weeks old.
He is the son of Wilbur wild
Goose Bid Condor, the founder of
the town of Wilbur.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Methodist Pastor
Reappointed Here
Rev. C. H. Schneider Gets Same
Post; Plan Evening Services
Sunday

Regular church services will be
held at the Methodist Community
church Sunday evening, it is an
nounced by the Rev. G. H. Scllreib-
err, who has just returned from
Moscow, Idaho, where he attended
the Methodist Episcopal church con-
ference.
The exening services will be held
at 8 o'clock. Next Sunday, June 30,
the w. C. T. U. will present good
temperance program at the evening
service.
While at Moscow the Rev. MIR
Schneider was reappointed to the
Nespelem passionate.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Women Democrats
Schedule Meeting
Will Convene At Mason City Sat-
urday, July Is, To Elect
Director

All Democratic women in the
Fifth congressional district are
called to a meeting at Mason City,
Saturday, July Is, for the purpose
If electing a district director to the
Washington Conference of Demo-
cratic Women, it is announced.
Mrs. Elsie Gardner Picking,
Democratic national committee
woman from Washington, and act
ing chairman of the conference, will
be in charge of the meeting. Mrs
Ellen Moore, formerly of Tonasket
but now of Mason City, is general
chairman in charge of arrange
ments for the district meeting.
At the state convention in Tacoma
last month the Federation OF
Women's Democratic Clubs of
Washington reorganized, changing
its name to washington Conference
of Democratic Women, and becom-
ing an official unit of the state and
national Democratic party, in
accordance with a national plan
sponsored by Mrs. James H. Wolfe,
director of the Womens Division of
the Democratic national committee
Plan Study Groups
Plans will be outlined for the
formation of study groups which
are under the direction of Miss Har-
riet Elliott, nationally known
educator and for 80 years a profess
sor of political science and economy
in Eastern colleges.
Miss Elliott visited the Northwest
last month and explained this edu-
cational program at a meeting OF
Democratic women which was held
at Portland. Mrs. Picking is in
charge of study groups in the
states of Washington, Montana
Oregon and California.
The Mason City meeting will be
an all-day session with varied ell
tertainment features, its sponsors
announce.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER"
COMING TO LOCAL THEATRE

Because almost continual warfare
with native tribes in the wilderness
of India occupies so much Of the
Bengal Lancer's time, the motion
picture scenes made with the actual
Lancer regiments for 1.-The Lives of
a Bengal Lancer" coming to the
New Deal Theatre, Nespelem, Fri
day and Sunday, June % and 30,
were shot under trying difficulties.
Eight months of the four years
of work and filming for this pic
ture which features Gary Cooper,
Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
and Sir Guy Standing, were spent
in India around the khyber Pass,
Peshawar and the Afghanistan Dor
der to get authentic material for
the picture.
Plenty To Do
According to Director Ernest B.
Schoedsack, the Bengal Lancer regi-
ments had q daily routine of either
rigorous training or rows with
tribeSmen which made 1t almost Inn
possible to schedule their time for
filming.
Schoedsack describes plans made
for a day and night of work. All
arrangements were complete when
a messenger arrived with the report
that a sub-overseer of the Military
Works department had been kid
naped and taken into tribal ter
ritory. The entire regiment rode Oft
in the night for two days Of work
in rescuing the official.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
&C" MEN SHOW STUFF
IN MASON CITY FILM

A smashing story of the &c" men
In their battle with the underworld,
the ever popular "Laddie," and q
Wheeler and Woolsey laugh riot,
provide balanced program at one
Mason City theatre this week and
next.
Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool
sew turn amateur detective TO solve.
a murder mystery in "The NitWlts,
their new feature comedy playing
today and Thursday.
The story is set in the famous Tin
Pan Alley, and the crime which tine
bows solve occurs in the office OF a
song publisher, where two men are
shot and Wheeler's sweetheart is
accused.
Wheeler and Woolsey are sup
ported by Fred Heating, Betty
Cradle, Evelyn Brent and Erik
Rhodes in this hilarious comedy
which provides mystery thrills and
melody moments.
Thriller Billed
LET En- Have IT, a thriller
showing the inside operations of the
federal Gxmen comes Friday and
Saturday, featuring Richard Arlen,
Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Bruce
Cabot, Eric Linden, Gordon Jones,
and a host of other great stars.
Joseph MOncure March and Elmer
Harris wrote the story which pre-
sents Arlen, Stephens and Jones as
three fearless federal sleuths who
pit science and brains against ma
chine guns.
Cabot is seen as Joe Keefer, q
chauffeur who starts his shocking
career of crime by engineering the
ATTEMPTED kidnap of his society girl
employer, played by Virginia Bruce
Paroled, he grows more and more
daring, finally becoming public
Enemy No. l."
The relentless pursuit and final
spectacular capture OF Keeter py
the three buddies makes for one OF
the most exciting adventures the
screen has ever shown.
Virginia Bruce and Richard Arlen
provide the romance, while Alice
Brady provides the comedy.
."Laddie" Coming
'Taddie," Gene Stratton Porter
great masterpiece, is scheduled at
the Mason City theatre Sunday and
Monday.
Filled with the same charm that
made the book the favorite OF an
estimated 100000 readers, and
possessed of the same dynamic
drama, "Laddie" has a stellar cast
headed by John Beal, who was
catapulted to fame by his work OPP
posite Katherine Hepburn in 1.-THE
Little Minister" and by Gloria
Stuart, who Is not only beautiful
but also a brilliant actress.
The production has been given
every asset of authenticity and en-
tertainment excellence. So this
glamorous romance of the Indiana
youth who loved the English NOBLE
mans daughter, but finds he has te
battle the barriers of caste ane
wealth to win her for his own, il
wrought into an enhancing photo
play. In addition to having one o.
the most celebrated of all the great
loves Of fiction, 1T has grand coined!
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Nespelem Dogs
Must Garry Tags
Licenses Required On All Local
CANNES; Officer Ordered To
Enforce Law

Dog owners of Nespelem are
warned by town officials that the
ordinance requiring the purchase OF
annual dog licenses Is now in effect
and will hereafter be vigorously en-
forced.
Ordinance No. S, recently enacted.
provides that dog owners pay 81
year license for male dogs and 81
yearly for female dogs. Dog tags
are now available at the office of
the town clerk, w. H. Hanscom.
The town marshal is authorized
under the ordinance to kill all UNI
licensed dogs after June / each
year.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
New Order Bans
Fireworks In Town
Council Forbids Use Of Inflam-
mable Fireworks In Corpor-
ate Limits

The city council has decreed that
no inflamable fireworks will be al
lowed inside the incorporate limits
of the town, because of the fire
hazard. Cap guns and non-inflam-
able sparklerS and such will be al
lowed the children. Officials warn
that the order will be vigorously en-
forced.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
VISITS AT KELLER

The Rev. FIR. Edward M. Griva
spent several days at Keller last
week, instructing class and pre-
pairing them for their first COM
munion. The children made their
first communion and their bap-
tism last Sunday.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Town Paints Up
For Celebration
Business Houses Get Ready For
Thousands Of Holiday
Visitors

The town is painting up in pre-
paration for the big Frontier Day
celebration. Princes Store is re-
ceiving a new coat of paint and
Linder g. OFT have painted inside
and out.
The Shell Service station and the
Richfield expect to be painted be-
fore the Fourth.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Bridal Sh01ver
Held Last Week
For Mrs. Hunt

A bridal shower was given at the
Ed Nissen home, Friday afternoon,
honoring Mrs. Raymond Hunt.
Hostesses were Mrs. M. Cash and
Mrs. Ed Nissen. Many beautiful and
useful articles were received by the
bride. Refreshments of ice cream
and cake were served to large
number of guests.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
EXAMS ARE HELD

Eighth grade examinations were
given this week, at the scfioolhouse,
by Basil Ames, for those who failed
to make all of their grades in the
first examination at the close OF
school.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
WORKS AT MARKET

Raymond James, formerly of
Omak. came to Nespelem Saturday
and is employed in the Linder 81
OFT meat market
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
HOLD SILVER TEA

A delightful silver tea was served
at the j. M. Koontz home last
Thursday, with Mrs. Koontz and
Mrs. John Whitelaw hostesses.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
USE NEW CHEVROLET TRUCK
TO DELIVER MILK

M s. Parmeter and son are de-
livering their milk these days In
new Chevrolet milk wagon. They
have new coach which Is easily
converted into a delivery wagon.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26

sequences, and it's emotional ele-
ments are sincere and realistic, and
rise to a smashing climax.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
IOCALGOLFERS
DEFEAT WILBUR
ON OWN COURSE
Evergreen Club Wins 3l-l6 Sun
day; Wilbur Ladies Take
Contest
Course Record Falls
Albert Williams Goes Around In
u To Set New
Marks Here
Course Record Falls

The Evergreen Golf club took the
Wilbur golfers into camp Sunday
on the local links with score of 81
to Is. Albert Williams established a
new record for the course with u.
The Wilbur ladies won with a score
OF 7 to 2 for nine holes.
The scores follow:
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-06-26
Ladies' Scores

The score of the ladies' nine-hole
play was as follows:
Wilbur.
, 1935-06-13
Cameron Tax Payments

One Of the most interesting signs OF the times and
one that perhaps reflects even more than increased
bank deposits and postal receipts the manner in
which the Valley is pulling itself out Of the dumps,
may be found in figures from the office OF Cameron
County Assessor-Collecto Ralph T. Agar.
In brief. this is the story: Tax payments are up.
When people pay taxes they are at least getting
back to that happy stage Of money in the pocket
that Is not needed for beans and shirts.
And when tax payments show an increase Of ap-
proximately 70 per cent over the preceding year. it
may be assumed that beans are in every pot and
that every back has its shirt.
The encouraging feature OF Cameron county's tax
payments 50 far this year has been the increase in
s~elinquent tax collections. So far in 1885 a total OF
el56.OOO20 in delinquent taxes has been paid as
compared to $5l .3s4.7s paid in 1884. And this year.
1t may be assumed. much OF this delinquent tax total
payment has come from the pockets Of the taxpayers
not from the government in the form Of loans from
the Home Owners Loan corporation.
Many and diverse are the problems surrounding
our tax and taxing situation. Few of them are on
the way to eventual solution. but there can be no
harm in at least taking a casual glance at the pic
ture when II gets just a little bit roster than II has
been in years past.
And certainly the records Of tax payments to date
this year shed a diffused glow Of sunshine over what
has been an all too dismal situation.
, 1935-06-13

Children playing In a field near wilma. Poland. the
other day found an old shell. buried in the soil since
World War days. They began, ignorantly. to play
with it. It exploded. and II children were killed.
This sort Of tragedy is not in Europe,
where there are many battlefields sown with high
explosives. II Is a dreadful commentary on the far
reaching effects Of the last war: and II Is even
grimmer as a forecast on the next one.
There probably is not q man on earth 50 cruel and
heartless that he would not do all in his power TO
save a group OF children from destruction. If he
found them playing with an unexploded shell. And
yet-what are we TO say Of ourselves. when we re-
fleet that every great nation is busily preparing for
a new war In which the murder Of children by high
explosives will be taken for granted7
, 1935-06-13

Expressions Of surprise from visiting chamber OF
commerce executives over the close and harmonious
cooperation existing between chambers Of commerce
Of the border country on both sides of the Rio
Grande are sincere and spontaneous. To most of
these men. living as they do far removed from the
border line between Mexico and the United States
Mexico as q country and Mexicans as men and wo-
men are something strange and unusual. and prob
ably most OF the information about Mexico and its
people has come to them from magazine fiction.
A practical example Of the possibility Of interna-
tional amity has been working out on this border for
many years. and is now coming into full flower.
Mutual problems. mutual natural advantages are be-
Ing worked out by both sides Of the Rio Grande to
mutual good.
1t is to be hoped that many Of the chamber OF
commerce visitors will find 1t possible to make the
trip to Monterrey after the convention closes here,
that they may there gain still further valuable in
formation concerning Mexico.
, 1935-06-13

Some time ago. a man saw his cousin fall out of a
third story window. He rushed her to the hospital.
When he got there. nervous and upset. his knees
we're shaking and his eyes watered for two hours
later. When his blood was examined. the doctors
found the amount Of blood sugar had risen consider
ably.
That is one serious effect that the mental reaction
which is called emotion can have on your body. When
you get excited. your pulse beats rapidly. When you
are stricken with fear. your face becomes pallid.
If you normally have high blood pressure. and you
become angry. you experience an additional rise In
blood pressure. In fact. persons With high blood
pressure are warned not to get angry or excited. for
a further rise in their blood pressure may result in
brain hemorrhage and death.
The discovery Of the rise in sugar content Of the
blood. when emotion occurs in some persons, was
made after an extended investigation. Recently at
Yale University, scientists tabulated the effects of ex-
element from various causes. And many cases, like
that Of the man whose cousin fell out Of the window,
showed a decided rise in blood sugar content.
One was the case Of a man who had had a motor
accident, in which his wife gave birth to a baby.
Another was the instance Of a woman who was in
formed that she had cancer.
In each Of these cases, there was a definite rise IN
the blood pressure. and in a considerable number
also a rapid pulse.
You can see. therefore. that profound emotions of
any kind are reflected strongly in the body. Indeed,
a rise In blood sugar can be 50 great as TO give the
effect Of a physical disease, when actually such a
disease does not exist.
The changes that take place in the body, due to
some emotion. in most instances result from the &C
lions OF the glands. Several eminent PSYCHOLOGISTS
have proven that in times Of excitement the adrenal
glands are stimulated.
On the other hand. there are instances in which
activities Of various glands may be suppressed by
emotional conditions.
All OF these studies emphasize again the close
relationship which exists between mind and body and
the necessity of understanding this relationship, when
YOU come to consider any disease.
, 1935-06-13

thing, and knocked off the deck onto the dock and
injured
He sued the steamship line for compensation un-
der the longshoremens act; and the owners replied
that he should sue under the Michigan compensa-
ton act. since he was hurt. not aboard ship. but
when he hit the dock-on Michigan soil. under tbs
Jurisdiction Of Michigan lawsl
When a seemingly simple case can develop a tech
nicality like that. it is evident that there is a sound
reason for the extreme completely OF legal language
, 1935-06-13

The way in which the law will go all the way
around Robin Hoods barn to nail down a seemingly
unimportant point occasionally impresses the lay
man as foolish. But now and then a court case
pops up TO prove that this extreme care with obscure
details is necessary.
An example was furnished recently by an accident
10 a longshoreman at Port Huron. Mich. This man
was on a ship. helping to unload 1t, when he was
struck by a swinging boom. a flying cable, or some
, 1935-06-13
Rrbs

Germany's newest rearmament
weapons are west pocket tropedo
boats. III Germans r sincere In
their disarmament proposals, they
should submit TO being frisked.
Government Is moving toward
payment or New York'S Civil War
claims. From what we've heard on
federal red tape. the citys TO be
congratulated.
Sitting In her room, a MaSsachu-
sets woman was knocked out by n
RoIf ball that came through the
window. III we know our golfers. the
culprit probably entered and drove
off from q p~recarious lie back Of her
ear.
Wnen q couple OF bcres Sst to-
Eathsf. it's N case CT en- I for On T.