White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The state Bar meets August 1912
at North Yakima.
The Wenatchee district will ship
rs cars of prunes this year.
BENJAMIN L. Tweed, embezzllng
postmaster at Waverly, surrendered
to the authorities at Chicago.
Spokane is the only city in the
state of Washington which has ap-
piled for federal land bank.
H. Evison, living few miles south
east of Quincy, reports that he has
struck a gas well on his farm.
The wheat market is strong at
Ritzville. Buyers are offering 81 for
bluestem and IS cents for red.
Henry Kyllo was painfully burned
about the face and hands in smut
explosion near La Crosse recently.
1t is estimated that between 100000
and 100000 bushels of new wheat
were sold at Walla Walla last week.
The grading of the state road be-
tween Sprague and Ritzville is near
ing completion and two or three
weeks will see 1t ready for travel.
The O.-W. R. G N. railway company
has notified shop men at Starbuck of
an increase In wages, effective July
l. 1t amounts to about &c an hour.
Directors of the Klickitat county
fair association have fixed October
At as the dates Of the eighth an
nual Klickitat county fair, at Golden
dale.
Several men we're seriously injured
Saturday night in a fight between me-
gro strikebreakers and striking long
shoremen and their sympathizers at
Seattle.
Nine members of Company A, Of
the Washington national guard, have
been released as married or men
with dependent families, and are
now at home in Walla Walla.
Axel B. Anderson, driver, was
suffocated Saturday while working
near Altoona, Wash, in about 10 feet
Of water, while putting chains around
fishtrap piling that were to be pulled.
The search party, headed by Sher-
If Wooten, trying to secure the body
Of Alva Baucom, drowned in the
Snake river near Riparia Friday night
were not successful and returned to
Dayton.
The hearing announced by the in
terstate commerce commission for
August IA on rates filed by trans
continental railroads to go into ef-
feet September does not mean a
complete reopening of the Spokane
rate case.
Quartermaster Sergeant George T..
Kline, age about 80, missing from Fl
George Wright since July 3, has been
posted as a deserter and reward
of $50 offered for his capture and
return to the post. $500 post funds
are also missing.
The civilian military training camp
at American lake, near Tacoma, that
was to have begun August IA, has
been postponed until August % by or
der of General j. Franklin Bell, com
handing the western department U.
will
September 23.
Under the provisions of an order
entered Saturday by the state public
service commission the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph company is to
abolish all special contracts affect
ing 8095 telephones and to establish
uniform rules and regulations for all
parts of the state
An unprecedented demand for the
Washington State college catalogues
by prospective students Is reported
by Registrar F.. T. Barnard. Besides
the large number of catalogues sent
out upon their publication to former
students and prospective students
who had written in advance, 1900 of
the booklets have been sent since to
all parts Of the northwest in response
to requests.
Under the provisions Of the law
passed at the 1915 session of the
legislature the state bureau of in
spection is sending to all state de-
partments and institutions copies of
instructions and blank budgets which
are to be compiled and in shape for
presentation to the next legislature.
1t Is the duty Of the state board Of
finance to pass on the budgets of the
state institutions and 1t may be neces-
sary for the members to do some
travelling over the state to check up
as to what is needed in the way of
repairs and improvements.
Six Pullman men, whose ages total
465 years, participated Saturday in a
party at the home of Mrs. A. w.