White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-10
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superior court at Ephrata and will
Odessa total approximately $4,000.
The Winona school district has vot-
ed to bond the district for new $780,
900 schoolhouse
A mountain lion measuring II feet 2
inches from tip to tip and weighing
21O pounds was killed near Pateros by
Harry Fisher.
The big increase in the number of
laws is due to the law enforcement
policy inaugurated by the labor COM
missioner
Judge r. s. Steiner has vacated the
order for March jury term In the
superior court at Ephrata and will
make an order for the calling of a
new jury to report on April II.
Judge Rudkin of the federal court
raised from $1,000 to $4,000 the bond
of f. j. Brooks, Canadian farmer,
now held on charge of recruiting
Spokane men for the Canadian army.
Bones which are reputed to be those
Of a mastodon, unearthed at Stra-
ford, near Wilson Creek in Eastern
Washington, are to be studied by
scientists at the University of Wash
ington.
The Hon. George Edward Morris,
chief justice of the supreme court of
the state Of Washington, will deliver
the commen ement address when the
next June.
Thomas r. Kinsey, who has been
identified with mercantile interests at
Bellingham for a score of years and
is serving his third term as president
of the state association, has been
elected secretary of the Seattle asso.
ciation..
Walla Walla county commissioners
have decided not to pay for any license
for the county automobile and to fight
in the court any attempt to make the
county pay, claiming the law exempts
this property.
Frank George, age 20, a pioneer rail
road man, who had held executive po
sitions with the Spokane Falls & Nor
thern and the Spokane international,
committed suicide by shooting at Spo-
kane Saturday.
| Spokane bank clearings for Febru-
airy this year show a gain Of 90 per
cent over the same month of 1915,
| according to figures announced by the
| Spokane Clearing House association.
The figures for February, 1916, are
| $15,693,S14, as against $12,809,652 last
year.
| Twenty-three vessels of various type,
representing an aggregate cost of $751;
258,000, are under construction or have
been contracted for by Seattle ship
building plants, according to figures
compiled by officials of shipbuilding
companies.
Washington states attempt to tax
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redeemable coupons attached to mer-
chandise was sustained by the SUI
preme court of the United States, in
one Of the most important commercial
decisions handed down in many years
David Simon, who admits he muir
dered Mrs. Frank Simon his sister-in-
law, last week at North Yakima, shoot
ing at her through the window Of her
home. Simon attributes his act to
jealousy, because Mrs. Simon, who had
been divorced from his brother, would
not marry him, and, he believed, was
receiving the attentions of another
man.
Lieutenant Charles Sweeny of the
foreign legion of France arrived at his
boyhood home in Spokane Sunday for
10 days on convalescent leave. He, the
only American holder of the military
legion of honor medal, and with bull
let hole in his chest, received In a
charge at the battle Of Champagne, re-
fuses flatly to view war as a heroic
and romantic spectacle.
The grand circuit" of annual meet
ings of the five groups Of the Wash.
ington State Bankers association, Or
ganized at North Yakima last week,
provides for group meetings in the
following places: Group 4, at Che
halls, May II; group 8, probably at
Seattle, May 1s; group 2, at Spo-
kane, May 49,; group J., at Stehekin,
on Lake Chelan, May 90 and %;
group 5, at Prosser, May 25.
Judge q. G. Mills in the superior
court at Walla Walla has decided that
Fred Martin, an ex-saloonman and a
registered pharmacist, though not now
engaged in business as a druggist, can
repossess $50 gallons Of whisky re-
Gently taken from him by Sheriff Lee
Barnes. 1t was decided that Leo
Rodgers, from whom 20 quarts of wine
were taken, can keep but two quarts,
the rest must be destroyed. This is
the first time the pharmacist question
has come up for decision in the state.
Judge Mills holds that Martin may
sell or dispose Of the liquor in the
manner and under the restrictions pre-
scribed by the statute relative to reg
istered druggists and pharmacists, but
not otherwise.
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