White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-10-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS

A. ]. Emmans, age "a, pioneer
of Cheney, died recently.
Horses have gone out of use in the
fire department at Walla Walla.
Apple pickers at Bridgeport are
on a strike, demanding SO a day.
Samuel Wade, a real estate dealer
committed suicide at Seattle recently
The new $4,000 high school build
ing was dedicated Friday night al
Pomeroy
There are now seven cases Of in
fantile paralysis in Seattle and three
schools are closed.
The hunting season opened Sun
day with poor prospects for Chinese
pheasants in Kittitas county.
At Mabton recently the new public
school teachers were given recep
ton by the people of the town.
A searching party from Bridgeport
has failed to locate Joe Zimmerman
who mysteriously disappeared.
Judge Nathan Thomas Cation, age
"a, among the Oldest pioneers of the
Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B
c., Sunday.
A heavy docket of federal cases
will be heard by the grand jury and
the entire federal court at North
Yakima this week.
A. R. Saunders was killed Sunday
about 20 miles from Walla Walla by
his cousin, Boyd Shelton, as the re
suit of hunting accident.
The 2-year-old son of Mrs. Leslie
Dyson of Blewett was found drowned
in rain barrel, which stood at the
side of her fathers house on a farm
near Wenatchee.
John T. Ahlin and William Stude
baker, Great Northern car repairers
were horribly injured at Leaven
worth recently when caught under g
car and dragged. Studebaker has
since died..
On his 80th birthday, which was
Sunday last, d. G. Corbin, veteran
railroad builder of Spokane, has ne
intention Of retiring from active di
rection of his affairs.
No longer will the five-cent loa
of bread be sold in Olympia. This
week the Olympia bakers abolished
the twelve-ounce loaf that sells fol
five cents and sell the twenty-ounce
loaf for ten cents.
M. o. Van Brocklin of Leaven
worth has bought the dairy herd O.
Is cows, mostly Holsteins, from the
Ambrose S. Riker estate, and the
dairy equipment. The dairy is oil
Gated in the Icicle country.
Seattle's city health department
has ordered the Immaculate Concep
ton school, Catholic institution
and the Beacon Hill public schoo
closed for 10 days on account of {
case of infantile paralysis having
been discovered among the pupils o
each.
The Seattle Shipbuilding compan.
has been incorporated, with a capita
of 100000, by s. F. Racine and G
T. Morgan of Seattle, who said the.
represented eastern capital which
would erect in Seattle Immediately
shipbuilding plant to construct 1000
ton steel ships.
Preliminary work of mastering on
of the Washington troops at Ameri
can Lake Is going on rapidly now
and most Of the equipment has beer
checked in. Payrolls have been sign
ed, and clothing allowances figured
The troops were paid Tuesday ane
will leave for home the last of the
week.
At the Washington State college
Pullman, six hundred men have al
ready reported for military drill, the
largest number in the history of the
college, despite the fact that full,
$50 students have not yet registered
The total registration of regular stu
dents has reached 1851 and will prob
ably climb to 1400 or over, this week
The Great Northern will not built
any more lines in Washington as lonl
as the taxes are as high as they ar,
now, was the reply of Louis w. Hill
president, when queried If the Grea
Northern was in any way back of O.
connected with the Methow Vale.
Eastern railway that proposed tt
build railroad from Pateros up tn,
Methow valley.
Suspected of being veteran ant
professional safe-crackers, whose &C
tivities may have extended across
the continent, three men are undel
arrest at Pasco, accused of cracking
the postoffice safe at Richland recent
ly, and robbing it Of its contents
They give the names of Dutch
(John) Larson, Edward Connolly enc
VIM. Anderson.
Miss Cora Nelson, age 81, schoo
teacher, died Friday afternoon from
a wasp sting at her home on the
Deep creek road, seven miles west
of Medical Lake. The sting, back Of
her ear, had an effect similar to that
Of rattlesnake bite, says the doc
tor, who arrived at the Nelson home
and five minutes after her death
Miss Nelson was particularly sus
ceptible to the effect of wasp stings