Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-10-22
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
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of the Sacheen cutoff road has been
completed.
Yakima-Five cases of typhoid
from drinking ditch water were re-
ported in one week.
Longview-The WPA has placed 8
man on Lake Sacajawea in order to
protect the water fowl there.
Pasco-Forty-fiv farms in this
district have been sold this year
through the Northern Pacific land
department..
Chelan-The new Knapp's hill tun-
mel on the -Wenatchee high
way is now open to traffic eliminat-
ing switchback that has been used
since pioneer days.
Olympia-The states pea crop this
year is 2400 tons greater than for
1885 while the average for the Unit
ed States is one-third less.
Chelan-The Sunday closing law
Is to be inforced here. The law is
aimed at drive-in markets that OPP
crate night and day seven days a
week.
Regarding and resur-
facing of the Sprague-Ritzville sec
zion of the Columbia Basin highway
started last week. Work will pro-
gress a mile at a time,
Seattle-Jim Love of Vancouver
B. G. knows how time flies. He told
police recently that as he stood wind
ing his watch on downtown corner,
a man ran up snatched the watch and
ran.
Seattle-One of Portland, Oregon's
new trackless trolleys will be bor-
rowed for the purpose of demonstrat-
ing to Seattle citizens what it will be
like to modernize the traction sys
TEN.
Pasco-Riverview district farmers
are digging their winter potatoes.
Lettuce is beginning to head and
conditions indicate heavy yield.
Better prices than last year are an
ticipated.
Centralia-J. b. Russell, 90, Cen
tralia's only living veteran of the In
dian wars, decided that he was not
too old to pick apples. Now he is
suffering from severe bruises from
falling out of tree.
Kennewick-A large increase in
the number of turkeys grown in this
district is indicated in reports from
various growers. Feed prices are
high as are meat prices, andSa bet
ter price than last year is anticipated.
Pasco-An all time record for rail-
road business was reached here when
SO crews were dispatched from mid
night until p. m. one day recently.
An average of 1900 cars daily passed
through the yards during Septem-
Der.
OkanOgan-COnstru of a new
ten room grade school and the adj
dition of four rooms to the high
school building was assured by the
recent granting of $45,900 for the
project. Total estimate of the prof.
ect is 100000.
Wilbur-George Slater of the state
highway department thought that he
was being bitten by rattlesnake
but it turned out to be scorpion.
The insect had gotten into his shoe
while he was digging culvert. He
suffered no ill effects.
Vancouver Forest fires were
blamed for the swarms of yellow
jackets which menaced county court
house patrons recently. The insects
were finally made away with by
means of a vacuum sweeper, al
though it was found not easy then
to rid the sweeper of the pests.
Seattle-The labor temple was
picketed by housewives over the la
Dor trouble here. The IL women
carried American flags and sandwich
signs such as reopen the P. l." or
"clear Seattle's name-re-open the
P. l." The women were supposedly
members of federated women's clubs.
Yakima-Wood that failed to pet
rify, although it has been buried for
countless centuries in lava rock, has
been found by workers in Roza irri-
cation tunnel No. l.. The same work.
ers few weeks ago unearthed pre-
historic camel and elephant bones.
Splinters can be cut from the wood
and rubbed into sawdust.
Olympia-A hog cholera epidemic
Is killing many hogs and costing
many thousands of dollars in the
state. Apparently the epidemic was
started by the importation of hogs
without proper immunization from
the drouth area. The regions hard
est hit are the Palouse region and
King and Kitsap counties.
Everett-Where are the porcu-
pines coming from? There was an
other loose on the main streets re-
cently-tf1e third in three months.
Like the others it was first seen