White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1915-12-10
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Sunday.
The funeral of A. P. Mcconnell, for
many years resident of Edwall, was
held Sunday in that town.
1t is believed the new Northport
smelter will not be ready to blow in
before the last of January.
Mrs. Janet McCallum, age 70, ma
tive of Cambletoun, Scotland, and a
pioneer of niLcoln county, died Mon
| day.
| Over 300 birds were entered at the
fourth annual poultry show of the Co.
lumbia County Poultry association last
week.
| A deal has been consummated where
by Otto K Strizek of Seattle has ac-
quired the controlling interest of the
First National Bank of Sunnyside.
Fred Johnson, the tiger man." ar
rived at the penitentiary Saturday
from Spokane and started to serve his
| 50-year sentence for various crimes.
Formal inaugural ceremonies for DR..
3. o. Holland, who on January will
become president of Washington State
college, to succeed President Enoch
A. Bryan, will be held March "a.
Elma merchants met last week at
the city hall and reorganized the old
Merchants association, which was
Hpcyf ctor fn1 1,1rf
which has been out of existence the
past three years.
A charter has been issued for the
Farmers and Merchants State bank
at Odessa The capital stock is $685.
900 and the surplus $4,000. l.. G. Nuel-
son is president, and H. Y. Reike is
cashier.
Twelve homesteads in the lower
Yakima valley will be opened for fill
ing February Z. These are adjacent
to the 13 tracts for which "a drawing
was held from over 800 applications
last week.
The new $4,000 municipal we'll at
Cheney ha sheen tested and found sat-
isfactory. The pump discharged 49,
| 400 gallons of water an hour. about
| 1000 more than is needed for the or
binary demands
A. l.. Dorsey, who lives east of
Mansfield in the Leahy country, re-
Gently lost nine young thoroughbred
horses, which broke into portable
wheat bins in the field and gorged
themselves with grain.
Failure of the electric power plant
of the Great Northern Railway COM
pany, used to supply power for the
electric engines in the Cascade tun-
nel resulted in the suffocation or
drowning of A. G. Nyhus Of Skyho-
mish, age % and unmarried.
In default of bail j. F. Gillies, for
merly claim agent for the industrial
insurance commission, who was ar
rested on charge of falsifying public
records in connection with the looting
of the state accident fund, surrendered
himself to the sheriff and was locked
up in the Thurston county JAIL
Senator Miles Poindexter designates
himself Republican" instead of pro-
gressive in the new congressional di-
rectory. Representative Dill of Wash
ington, age 81, is the second youngest
member of the lower house of con-
gress, the baby member being Sidney
Mudd of Maryland, who is under 80.
Representative Dill from this state
has been assigned to committees on
public lands Indian affairs, irrigation
ranking all new men appointed on
three or four committees. These were
committees to which he had asked as
signments, and valuable results are
expected Of him.
| Snow to the depth of 100 inches has
fallen since November 7 at the west
portal Of the Great Northern tunnel
through the Cascades and 80 inches
at Leavenworth on the eastern slope
of the mountains. This is the heavi-
est early snowfall ever known at
Leavenworth. There has been but lit
| tie interruption of traffic.
j. w. McGinnis, pioneer, has sold
his ranch at the foot of Badger noun
tain, five miles from Waterville, to
Henry Viebrock of Douglass for $685.
600. The ranch is composed of almost
1000 acres, including grazing land, a
fine orchard and 300 acres of wheat
land, on which Mr. McGinnis received
an average yield of So bushels an acre
this year.
All records for salmon eggs taken
were broken by Washington state
hatcheries this year, according to re-
ports. Notwithstanding adverse wealth
er and stream conditions and small
salmon run on Puget sound. Enor-
nous numbers of eggs were taken on
the Columbia river and Gray's harbor,
the take in the Columbia district being
As ,O0O,O 900, as against 22,000,000 last
wear and on Grays harbOr A 900 900