Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-01
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Chewelah - Three babies in rs
minutes were responsible for the
near arrest of DR.. M. B. Snyder of
Chewelah as he speeded through the
business section of the town at 80
miles an hour in order to keep pace
with the stork.
Wenatchee - Although not offer
ing season contracts at the figure.
dealers at Wenatchee are paying $40
ton for apricots. The cherry crop
will exceed the estimates made at
the beginning of the season and may
reach 224 cars.
Aberdeen - D. Hutchinson of
Brooklyn, near here, fell down a
well onto stick of dynamite with
sufficient force to explode it. He
escaped with superficial injuries and
walked away from the Aberdeen gen.
eral hospital after receiving first aid
treatment for bruises to his arms and
legs.
Clarkston-A 72-foot tower and
cable across stream and we'll and
shelter housing metrical instruments
is being constructed on the Snake
river about five miles below Clark
ston to test the river for navigability,
water power, irrigation and flood
control. The work is being done by
the United States geometric survey.
Colville - A fifth dividend of five
n RI nj
will be paid at once to depositors Of
the Hunters Exchange State bank, by
]. E. Bailey, special deputy supervis-
or of banking, the liquidator. The
bank suspended September 81, 1881.
An order authorizing the dividend
was signed here by Superior Judge
D. H. Carey.
Waterville - Between so and 60
head of cattle have died in Douglas
county within the last three weeks as
a result of forage poisoning. Water
hemlock and larkspur were largely
blamed but in the districts those two
plants cannot be found. County Ag-
ent e. L. Harms has asked Washing
ton State college for help in finding
the cause of the deaths.
Yakima - Turkey growers in the
lower Yakima valley, where temper
atures ranged last week from 95 to
1O8 degrees, are moving their young
birds to the Cleveland district, be-
tween Bickleton and Goldendale,
where there is plenty of shade. Many
birds have been killed in the hot sun
or smothered when hundreds gath
cred in the patches of shade.
Spokane - Acquisition of an adj
ditional 100000 bushels of wheat
purchased for relief purposes was
revealed by v. E. Pugh of the state
welfare department. This brings to
100000, or nearly half of the 1,500,-
000-bushel quota, the amount of
Washington-grown wheat which has
been purchased under this program.
Pugh posted bid of II cents bu-
shell for such wheat.
Disque = This tiny hamlet is tho
scene Of great international activity,
which has been going on since early
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international checker match con-
Quoted by Allen Worrell, 19-year-old
amateur radio operator, with a fell
low amateur in Guatemala. Each
youth makes one move night, when
ever they can get their messages
through. So far Worrell is one man
ahead and hopes by careful maneuv-
ering to win the game sometime next
January.
Seattle - A gigantic cooperative
movement by the Washington state
apple growers to eliminate large
freight costs to the Atlantic coast
through operation of their own ships
was reported under consideration.
While refusing the use Of his name,
Seattle man who has been in close
contact with apple growers and ship
pers in the central and eastern part
of the state, said such movement
is we'll under way and purchase or
construction of two large refrigerator
ships is contemplated as the first
ct on tho nrnurorn