White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-04-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS

| Bamford A. Robb, a prominent at.
torney, committed suicide at Seattle
Monday.
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale
university will arrive in Spokane May
8 for a short visit.
| Robert Kershaw, pioneer stockman,
age IS, died at his home in the Wenas
valley of paralysis alter brief i'll
ness.
Mrs. Frank Day, aged %, and moth
er Of two children, committed suicide
at Ellensburg Saturday by taking car
bolic acid.
John Stillwell. age 80, single, en-
ployed by the Ball Mining company,
was killed in snowslide recently near
North Yakima.
Believed to have become suddenly
demented, Henry Schwamberger, age
about 81, native of Switzerland, sui
cided at Spokane Monday night.
e. H. Herring, pioneer of Adams
county, has sold his homestead on Rat
tlesnake flat of $40 acres to Mrs. Mary
G. Schwandt Of Milton, Ore, for $780,
900.
Deposits of the 276 state banks have
Increased approximately $4,000, 900 in
the year between March, 1915, and
March, 1916, according to the recent
call.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Shoemaker of Cusick was the scene
Of an interesting event Monday when
the children, grandchildren, relatives
and friends gathered in celebration of
their 5Oth wedding anniversary.
William Flint, age 33, of Buckeye,
near Spokane, sent a bullet from a
Winchester rifle through the brain Of
his mother, Frederick Flint, age 60, on
Monday, then placed the butt of the
gun against a chair and fired bullet
through his own BRAIN
The public service corporations in
the state will contribute 1896 per cent
of all taxes levied for the year 1915.
When it comes to disbursement of the
moneys collected the cities will re-
ceive the lions share, or 1856 per
cent of all taxes paid in the state.
Registration for the opening of the
Colville Indian reservation will be
opened about the first of August and
it is expected that the reservation it.
self will be opened about September
/. The entire machinery of the inte-
rior department is now working to ex-
pedite the opening, according to in
formation from Washington, ID. c.
Oliver H. Cline, fugitive cashier Of
the Pacific Coast company, holding
company of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship company and allied corporations,
was arrested in New Orleans on
charge Of embezzlement. Cline, 1t is
alleged, stole more than 100000 Of
the company's funds by careful manip-
ulation Of the company's books and
bank accounts which he handled
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution of Washington concluded their
fifteenth annual assembly Saturday at
Everett with the election Of the fol-
lowing officers: Second vice regent,
Mrs. Stephen j. Chadwick of Olympia;
historian, Miss Della Keeler of Bel
bingham; chaplain, Mrs. s. l.. B. Pen
rose of Walla Walla. Mrs. Eliza Ferry
Leary of Seattle was nominated for
vice president general of the national
D. A. r.
Sale of Public Lands.
OF the public lands to be offered
for sale at public auction in % coun-
ties of the state on May practically
one-fourth lies in counties of eastern
Washington. The total value of lands
to be offered for sale is $278,00O and
the appraisement Of eastern Washing
ton lands is about $4,000. Eastern
Washington tracts consist chiefly Of
uplands. especially adapted to farm
ing and grazing. Only one applica-
ton is listed from Spokane county.
Among other eastern Washington
applications are the following:
Agricultural land when cleared, To-
Gated one mile from the Pend Oreille
river Dalkena, on the Idaho & Wash
ington Northern railroad, is about two
miles west. Appraised at $500.
Shore lands of the Pend Oreille riv-
er, located five miles north of lone.
Escheated land located in the city
of Northport, on Railroad avenue, near
business district improvements con-
sist of store building.
Agricultural and grazing land, with
some timber suitable for wood, Loon
Lake, on the Spokane Falls & North
ern railroad, is three miles east. I'm
provements consist of a log barn and
some fencing. =
Grazing land, part agricultural II
irrigated, located on the Columbia
river. Pasco, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, is 25 miles south.
/ Agricultural and grazing land. The
southeast quarter Of section ID is To-
Gated six miles west Of Soap Lake, and
Ephrata, on the Great Northern rail-
road, is nine and half miles south
east. The northeast quarter Of section
20 is located seven miles west Of Soap
Lake. and Ephrata Is miles south
east. improvements consist Of fenc-
ing and breaking on both.
Agricultural and grazing land, To-
Gated about six miles west of Soap
Lake. Ephrata, on the Great Northern