White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1915-12-17
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Mrs. William l.. Thomas, aged II, a
pioneer of Walla Walla, died recently.
A. ]. Splawn Saturday was reflect
ed president of the Yakima Pioneers
society
A one-minute earthquake was felt
in Spakone last Friday. No damage
is reported.
The funeral of William Colyar, aged
70, pioneer resident of Sprague, was
held Sunday.
Spokane county sent 80 persons to
the state reformatory at Monroe dur
ing the last year.
Mrs. Josephine Preston, state SUI
perintendent of schools, ill with pneu-
monia, is improving.
On January about SO sections Of
state land in Kittitas county will be
leased for grazing.
Patrolman Lawrence Kost, wso was
shot in battle with three suspected
robbers late Friday night at Seattle,
died Monday.
News has come of the killing in the
European war of Major Anderson, who
lived up to recently on Rock Creek,
secen miles from Chesaw.
Two men were killed and about 100
were imprisoned for IL hours by a fall
of a ledge of coal in the Wingate mine
at Carbonado, December TO-
Joseph e. Brown, president of the
Brown-Lewis corporation, last Monday
started work at the harvester plant at
Walla Walla. Thirty men employed.
P. A. Johansen, second mate Of the
schooner Annie Larson, which put in
at Puget Sound Saturday, was washed
overheard and drowned during a
storm.
An organized mob ran two Japanese
laundrymen out of Oroville last week,
wrecked their laundry with a fire
hose and tok the furniture and fittings
out into the street and burned them
e. E. Faville of Spokane was elected
secretary-treasurer of the Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana Swine
Breeders association, which met in an
nual convention at Portland recently.
The official call is out for the fiji
teenth annual convention of the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor 1t
will be held at North Yakima for one
week, beginning Monday, January II.
The postoffice at Wapato was rob-
safe being opened on the combination
and the inner door forced with nitro.
glycerine. About $4,000 in stamps of
all denominations were taken, and 5000
in cash.
All of, and particularly north central
Washington, is elated over the news
of the early opening of the south hall
of the Colville reservation, which is
set for July, 1916. Congressman Dill
is credited with getting such immedi
ate action to be taken by the federal
government.
The county agricultural agent OF
Adams county has received a state.
ment from j. D. Jarboe, state grain
inspector, showing that up to Novem.
Der 1, 5,314,628 bushels of wheat had
received in warehouses in the county,
while the production for 1914 to June
80 was 4,245,671 bushels.
The growing Of English walnuts in
north central Washington is likely to
become within the next 10 years a
leading industry. The climatic condi-
lions and the soil are favorable to the
growing of the hard-shelled northern
variety. In the Wenatchee-North coun-
try there are 1000 trees planted, part
of which are in bearing
The Rev. Mark A. Matthews of Sc
| attic has been invited by ex-President
Taft to become Washington state chair
man of the National League to Enforce
Peace. This is the organization Gre
ated in America last year to work for
the maintenance of world peace by a
league of nations which will bind them
selves to turn their military forces
against any nation which refuses to
accept the award of an arbitration tri-
bunal.
110 DIE IN POWDER SMASH.