Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-10-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Olympia-SinCe 1t became opera
tive on May 1.1935,- the state has
collected $26,468,713 from the sales
tax.
Vancouver-The 1886 filbert cror
/ is the biggest and best on record
while the walnut crop is one of the
poorest.
Latah-A disease in this region is
killing off great number of ranch
ers' hogs. Two ranchers have report
ed heavy losses.
Ellensburg - Twelve hundred
Hampshire rams were sold from a
ranch near here to Russia to be used
for breeding purposes.
Wallula-Railroad business has in
creased to such an extent that a
permanent night crew will be en-
ployed in the local yard.
Olympia--Many candidates who re-
signed state positions to run for NOM
nation but were defeated are now
back to work in the capital.
Mount Vernon-About 100 loggers
from camp near here went out on
a strike recently. The men said that
the cook was not preparing suitable
food.
Raymond-The earthly reminder
of Gabriel's horn was recently in
stalled at the Willapa mill. 1t is a
giant whistle than can be heard for
20 miles.
Dayton-A six month old baby
girl was severely bitten by a rat
which climbed into the crib while
the mother was out of the room. Sew
en- wounds were inflicted before the
infant could be reached.
Seattle-When his clothing took
fire from an acetylene torch recent
ly, L. Ross saved his life by sliding
down rope from the scaffold on the
side of drydocked steamer and
plunging into Elliot bay. He suffer-
ed very severe burns.
Pateros- A local housewife must
have thought recently that war had
started here when can of tomatoes
that she was canning exploded and
a little later another can exploded
tearing off the oven door. The wom-
an was using a pressure cooker.
Morton-Tie mill operators met
here recently and organized an OPP
orators union in an effort to boost
the price of ties. Operations were
suspended temporarily pending de-
velopments and the new organization
demands a price of $3.50 per thou
sand feet as compared to offers of
Sill.
Chehalis-Thomas Jones and some
associates started recently to mine
coal from new mine on Coal creek.
They have been working for several
months in preparing bunkers and
other improvements and are convinc-
ed that they have product of fine
quality that will keep them busy for
several years.
Shelton-A Canadian goose shot
by hunter here some two years ago
furnished, by means of seed found
in it's stomach, not only Mrs. Hazel
Tiffany's garden with as she express
ed it, "the best beans you've ever
eaten," but also a commercial patch
with beans of variety farm experts
seem unable to classify.
South Bend-Porcupines must be-
lieve in the philosophy give me lib
erty or give me DEATH A party of
hunters recently captured one and
Gagged it for the night in their camp
oven. Next morning they hazed the
animal to the creek for a drink
whereupon he put his head in the
stream and kept it there till he
drowned
Grandview - Fred McCabe, who
holds permit to raise wild geese,
has a story Of prodigal geese. 1t
seems that some of his 1885 hatch
left on their own last spring, and of
course he never expected to see them
again. The geese, however, recently
returned honre-they flew straight
in without the usual circling around
and as McCabe approached them with
his wheelbarrow of corn they made
a Decline for him. ~