White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
WASHINGTON ITEMS

GeOI5S Mills, PiOASSA ASSAoShl ~
Latah, is dead.
S. F. Patton has received appoint
ment as postmaster at Waitsburg.
A humane society of Chelan county
has been organized at Wenatchee.
The Northern Pacific has the wash
outs repaired west of Ellensburg and
the slide at Dudley was cleaned Sun
day.
Captain F. c. Brown, who carries the
mail from Pasco to White Bluffs, has
started daily mail service. He reports
considerable ice in the river.
The Incorporation of $1.0OO,OOO
company for the establishment of a
stock yards and packing plant at At
Italia is proposed by eastern investors.
Dan Goodman, North Yakima, has
sold his wool clip of $4,000 pounds
from pure bred Shropshires and Lin
coins to Harry Armitage for "a cents
company has been formed with a
capital stock of 100000 to establish at
Pasco union stock yards large enough
to meet requirements for years to
come.
Constant pain from a cracked jaw
bone, caused by the extraction of a
molar tooth, drove Mrs. Eugenia Ora
ham, age 40, to end her life with poi
son at Tacoma on Saturday.
Spring work has started in earnest
in the Odessa country. The acreage Of
spring grain to be seeded is exception
ally large, because practically no win
ter wheat was sown last fall.
Roads in all sections of Chelan
county are inundated by floods due to
melting snow in the mountains. Many
washouts and caveins OF cuts have oc-
Cured and higher water is expected.
George Cantrell, at one time resi-
dent of Toppenish, was drowned Sat.
urday while trying to ford the Status
river, 10 miles southeast of Topper
ish. Mr.. Cantrell was pioneer Of Ore
gon and Washington.
| Louis e. Lorti, Seattle lumberman
| age Sc, was arrested recently and
United States immigration Commits
sioner Henry NJ White says Lorti is
accused Of smuggling thousands OF
Chinese into the United States.
John Hawkins, convicted of second
degree murder in the Whitman county
superior court for the killing OF
George A. Miller, Saturday arrived at
the penitentiary in advance of his com
mitment papers, ready to begin his sen
tence of from 10 to IL years.
The state failed in Its effort to send
James Lenzi to states prison for life
under the habitual criminal act al
North Yakima when he was sentenced
to the minimum of five years on a
charge of burglary and five years on
an assault charge; one sentence to be
gin when the other is finished.
The farmers union. as we'll as farm
ers throughout the Palouse country, is
advocating the bulking of grain more
earnestly as the price of grain bags
advances. The quotation on bags has
reached the high mark of is cents
with no surety of getting them at tina
price. A war clause attached to or
ders for grain bags makes the deliv
cry uncertain.
The body of William Stephenson, {
wealthy farmer of North Yakiba, Wn
was found beside the Northern Pacific
railroad track near Ravensdale, 81
miles east of Seattle, Sunday In the
dead mans pocketbook were certifi
Gates of deposit on Seattle, Portland
and Tacoma banks for sums totaline
ifs believe Mr.. Stephenson was muir
dered.
Many reports are heard of great dam
age to winter wheat around RitZville
by the severe weather. One prominent
wheat grower thinks grain is killed
on the high places IL not all over the
fields. The strong winds have swept
the fields clear of snow in the higf
to the extreme cold. A small acreage
Of winter grain was sown owing to the
dry fall.
The graft hearings in Olympia were
closed Tuesday when Judge ID. r
Wright sentenced ]. Il. Gillies, former
claim agent for the industrial insur
ance commission, to an additional one
year term in the penitentiary, making
five years in all, and Judge j. r
Mitchell accepted Frank w. Stone.
pleas of guilty to a charge of forgery
and sentenced him to one year. Stone
had turned states evidence.
The extension department of the
State college announces correspond
ence study course in lumber and itt
uses. This course has been prepared
by one Of the best authorities on the
subject in this country and will be o.
special value to lumber dealers, con
tractors, carpenters and others inter
ested with woodworking Industries
For full information write Extension
Department, State College, Pullman
Wash.
Work has been resumed on the
reservation irrigation system at Wa
patio, Wash, after an enforced idle
ness Of three months because of cold
and wet weather. There is still much
to be done on the bitches before wa