White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-06-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The funeral services of Daniel Twin
ing, pioneer, were held at Hartline
Saturday.
A contract for the construction Of
a $7S,61S postoffice building at Wenat
chez was awarded recently
Charles Sweeny, the pioneer mining
man who died recently at Portland
was buried at Spokane Friday last
Leslie H. Childs, age 81, of Spring
dale, a minor, was crushed to death
recently when boiler fell from q
| wagon.
The executive committee of the
Northern Big Bend Pioneers associa
ton is perfecting plans for the pic
neers' picnic at Wilbur.
At the Washington State college
Pullman, June 3, John Matsen Of Bick
Teton, freshman, won the annual col
lege oratorical contest.
A permanent site, consisting of 16A
acres has been purchased for the hay
palace fair to be held during the early
part of September at Mabton.
Dale Tharp holds the best school rec
ord in Columbia county. He is Ia years
old, started to school at 6, and dur
ing the eight years has not lost a day
Sylvester P. Mitchell, clerk, was
shot during a fight Sunday in his
home in Vancouver with a rifle in the
hands Of his wife, and died within ar
hour.
w. q. Quinlan, owner and manager
of the Pasco Express, has disposed Of
his interests in the plant and business
to Fred Barker, a prominent newspa
per man of Spokane.
The Toppenish commercial club was
recently host to more than 200 per
sons at banquet and Notification il
celebration of the initial appropriation
Of 100000 for the Wapato irrigation
project.
The farmers union will hold thu
county convention at Mansfield June
Is and 16. State President Mccall will
speak. The principal matter for dis
cussion will be the handling of grai1
in bulk.
The sale of the Seattle, Renton
| Southern railway, 12-mile trolley lint
operating in Seattle and Renton, ;
southern suburb, to the eastern bond
holders committee, who bid $1,300,000
has been confirmed by the court.
Mrs. Frank Stone, wife of Franl
Stone, Saturday drove her automobile
through the locked doors Of the ]. F
Kearney Grocery company, on Mai1
street, at Olympia, when the brakes
failed to hold. She was uninjured.
Group one of the Washington Stat,
Bankers association, which met al
Chelan, Wash, last week, elected thu
following officers: A. P. Murray, ORC
Vile, president; T. J.. East, Bridge
port, vice president for Douglas coun
ty; H. E. Jones, Columbia Valley
bank, Wenatchee, secretary.
That Henry Hofmeaer of Oroville
Wash, met his death between Fair
view, B. c., and Osoyoos, B. c., from
a blow with blunt instrument an
that A J. Wickersham, Angus Mclean
and Lester Armstrong are responsible
as being accessories before the fact
was the verdict of coroners jury.
The hay shipping season for Kilt
tas and Kittitas county has closed
The total shipment from Kittitas TO
the season was about 8 per cent high
er than in 1915. Total cars shipped
1900; average to car, 10 tons. TIL
price of hay this year was higher tina
last year, the average being SIS tor
P. w. Cox and sons, extensive farm
ers, have advertised sale Of their, liv
stock and farming machinery to b
held at the Cox ranch near Hay, Whit
man county, on June 20 and 81
Among the stock litsed for sale ar
many thoroughbred and registere
horses. They expect to retire fror
active farming.
The twenty-third annual Elberto
picnic will be held June 81, %, 23. TIL
Colfax Military band will furnish mu
sic for the three days and the orches
ira will play for the dances. Ball team
have signed to play for $125 purse
The first day Tekoa and Endicott will
play and on the second day Winon
and Oakesdale. The third day the tw
winning teams will play for the purse
A jury in the superior court at Nortl
Yakima gave the guardian of Horati
Bruenn, years old, judgment for IS
900 damages against the North Yak
ma school district for injuries sustain
ed last November while playing OF
school apparatus. The guardian file,
a $10,361 claim against the schoo
board and sued for $4,000 when tn
claim was rejected. Testimony shove,
the child was playing on teeter boart
| removed from the standard and PLACED
across a swing. The case will be ap
pealed If the verdict Is sustained, re
moval Of all apparatus from the pub
lie school Fairgrounds is certain.