White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-24
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Michael Semitic, an old-timer around
Pasco, died recently.
Mrs. Harriet Bramley, age SO a pio-
neer of Pomeroy, is dead.
The Great Northern will buy 3O,000,-
900 feet of lumber for snowsheds in
the Cascades.
The funeral services of David H.
Mcbride, age 81, was held at Waits
burg, Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah E. Woods, aged 81, res
ident of the state for 80 years, died at
Pullman Saturday.
The Savoy theater walls, Tacoma,
collapsed Saturday, crushing two
houses. No injuries.
Charles w. Gilbreath district horti-
culturist, arrived in Dayton to report
damage to cherries and peaches.
Companies A. B. D, Twenty-first in
fantry, Vancouver, Wash, have been
ordered to proceed to San Diego.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has announced reduction Of 10
cents a hundred in freight rates on
iron and steel products from Pitts
burgh to Spokane.
The plain of the Tonasket Flour
Mill company, pioneer industry of
that town, and the largest flour mill
north of Wenatchee, was destroyed
Monday by fire of unknown origin.
The mill was insured for $4,000.
Crickets are Matching in great num-
bers in the coulees Of Grant county.
Last year considerable areas were dew
astated by the insects and this year
promises to witness greater loss If the
authorities are unable to check them.
At chamber of commerce lunch
con at Pasco recently announcement
was made of the immediate installa-
ton of 1600-barrel flour mill by the
Pasco Flour Mill company, of which
Samuel Glasgow of Spokane is presi-
dent.
kilograms were forwarded by Cover
nor Lister Saturday to the five Wash
ington representatives in congress urg-
ing favorable action on pending legis-
lation appropriating $2065,0 900 to equip
the Puget sound navy yard to build
battleships
Reports from the Indian reservation
across the river from Okanogan say
there was heavy loss Of stock dur
ing the winter. One report states that
animals nearly fat enough for butcher
ing were found standing in the drifts
where they had frozen to death.
Mrs. Martha e. Powers, age IS, for
years familiar character on the
streets at Walla Walla, with her pleas
ant face and her mania for picking up
matches, died recently of old age. She
was known to nearly every one in
Walla Walla as "Auntie" Powers.
Melvin Musgrave was taken to Wal
la Walla Saturday seriously injured as
the result Of a runaway accident on
the Cantonwine farm near Dixie. Mus
grave was driving eight mules to a
disk The mules ran away and Mus
grave fell under the disks, his legs
being cut by the sharp edges.
Bids on the construction of perman
ent highway No. lib, extending from
nj ci mil ne 0y.
to point two miles east Of Creston
were opened by the county commits
sioners at Davenport, Wash, las
week, with the following proposals
Spokane Asphalt Macadam Paving
Co., 100000; X. w. Anderson of Spo
kane, $751; 74, and the Mohr Construc
ton Co. of Waterville, $31,571. The
estimate of the engineer was $32,333
The contract was let to the Spokane
company.
The Carstens ranch of 1000 acres
near Pasco, Wash, is to have the
most modern system of irrigation. The
ranch has received several carloads
Of ingot steel pipe ranging from 1s by
20 to inches in diameter, which are
now being laid. Ten more carloads
of steel pipe and 10 cars of cedar lum
Der will be used for fluming purposes
Six cars Of fence posts are on the
road and will be received within 8
few weeks. The Carstens ranch is de
voted almost exclusively to hog rails
ing and during the season between
1900 and 1000 head Of hogs ARE fed
the hay, grain and corn necessary fol-
feeding purposes being produced on
the ranch.
That William Stevenson, aged Mckee
rancher and recluse, killed on the N
p tracks near Ravensdale last week
died possessed Of upwards of $4,000
in government bonds Is the belief OF
his nephew, 7. l.. Stevenson, who ar.
rived in North Yakima recently from
Victoria, b. C. The nephew says that
when his uncle left the vicinity of Che.
halls in 1905 he had this amount in
bonds, also considerable lump in
cash. AS his uncle was thrifty he does
not believe the fortune was expended
He thinks it is either on deposit in