Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

last Thursday, to continue three
weeks.
Grand Coulee - The crawling of
B street, Grand Coulee's main artery,
is in progress. The work is being
undertaken by assessment of the
business houses on the street.
White Salmon - The Hicks and
Fagley mill on Northwestern lake,
Salmon, operating at capacity of
$4,000 feet of lumber daily, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday midnight.
Estimated loss is $4,000 with no
insurance. 1t is reported only TO-
900 or $4,000 feet of lumber burned.
Olympia - A record-breaking ap-
portionment of state gasoline tax
money was announced by Treasurer
Otto Case. The October apportion-
ment totaled $1,328,957, largest
monthly return since the states five
cent gasoline tax became effective in
1881. Under the apportionment
$657,317 was placed to the credit Of
counties for expenditure of secondary
roads.
Seattle = Halibut catches by the
American and Canadian fleets from
March 1 to September 80 totaled
34,784,9O1 pounds, of which the
United States fleet took 25,507,291
pounds, the international fisheries
commission has reported. The re-
port was on fish landed at various
Pacific coast ports. The catch for
the month of September was report
ed as 4,223,697 pounds.
Winlock - J. H. England Lumber
company, one of the city's principal
industries, has recently closed deal
with the Long-Bell company where
by the latter takes it's entire rough
lumber output for the next few
months. Repairs and overhauling
now under way Will step the capacity
of the plant up to $4,000 feet daily.
The planning mill operation will be
discontinued for the present and all
attention given to the cutting of
lumber.
Olympia - Authority to operate a
new barge service between the
mouth of the Willamette river and
Lewiston, Idaho, via the Columbia
and Snake rivers, is being sought by
the Inland Navigator company, the
state department of public service
was advised. A copy of the COM
pany's application to the interstate
commerce commission was filed with
the department. The states of Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho have 80
days in which to protest.
Kelso - Bill Baker, son of f. G.
Baker, logging superintendent for
the Weyerhaeuser Timber company,
killed big cougar near Weyerhaeus-
er camp in the Toutle river district
last Thursday. He saw the big cat
as he was walking along a trail near
the camp. 1t snarled at him and re-
fused to retreat when he threw rocks
at it, so Baker returned to camp and
got gun and dogs and, with Bill
Estep, took up the trail of the ami
NAL, which was freed within half an
hour by the dogs. Baker dispatched
it with single shot. 1t measured
seven feet eight inches in length.
Omak = Somewhere near ST.
Mary's Indian mission, five miles from
here, les a cache of gold left by
Old Chief Smitken, Colville Indian
leader. 1t may amount to $4,000
or more. His son, Louis Smitken,
and numerous old-timers, among
them Barton Robinson and Albert
Bailey, recalled the old chiefs hab-
it's. A prosperous cattle man, with a
herd usually Of 500 or more at
roundup time, the old chief always
insisted on being paid in $40 gold
pieces. In 1892 Bailey remembered
counting over $4,000 for him. He died
in 1918, never revealing his cache.