White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-01-28
WASHINGTON ITEMS

no Wdlld Wdlld TlVcI pOWOi pldu'
is again in operation
Best grade flour has advanced from
$3.50 to SLIGO sack at Walla Walla.
Wheat shipments are leaving Walls
Walla valley about 25 carloads day.
The first carload of hogs ever ship
ped from Pine City was loaded Satur
day.
Largely attended, the funeral Of Lev
Dickinson, pioneer of 1865, was held
at Dayton Saturday
The 1916 meeting Of the Washington
State Bankers association will be held
at Everett June. 15-17.
DR.. Elmer E..~Heg of Jefferson coun
ty, has been elected president of the
state board of health.
Mayor Geo. F. Raymond of Belling
ham, who took his office two weeks
ago, died Friday, age &C..
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha e
Libby, the wife of Professor I. G. Lib
by was held at Spokane Friday ~
The creek broke over it's banks at
Wilson Creek Sunday and the floods
covered the main streets Of town.
The Miners and Shelters bank at
Northport opened up for business on
January 81. James j. Day is presi
dent.
Yakima fruit growers who have ex-
amined fruit buds and spurs since the
recent cold snap report only slight
damage.
The electrification of the Great
Northern railway between Spokane
and the Coast within the next few
years is predicted.
Receptacles containing wood or de-
natured alcohol must be labeled "poi
son. according to a ruling made by
the state pure food inspector.
Heartbroken over the recent death
of his wife, DR.. j., NJ Morgan, aged 49,
a resident of Spokane in the sos, and
later well-known Seattle physician
ended his life by shooting.
Driven by high wind and snow.
fall which totaled 81 inches in "a
hours completely tied up the Roslyn
branch of the Northern Pacific Friday.
All mines were forced to close down.
The house of Charles Smart, at Lake
Stevens, seven miles southeast of Ev
erett, was destroyed by fire last weel
and his three small children burned
to death. Explosion of coal oil lamp
caused the fire.
Captain Clarence b. Blethen of the
National Guard Of Washington, wht
has been connected with the staff O.
the. adjutant generals office at Seat
tie for some time, has been promoted
to the rank of major of field artillery
A grain man bought $4,000 bushels
of wheat at $1.01 per bushel and 10,
900 bushels of oats at $1.25 per 100, a
Elberton Saturday. Many of the farm
ers are still holding their grain will
the expectation of getting a bette,
Eprice..
Snow fell heavily in the Cascade
mountains and rain in the lower por
lions of Puget Sound last week TWEEN
ty inches of snow fell in one night a
the east portal of the Milwaukee tun
mel, making a total of ITO inches OF
the ground Saturday, and 314 inches
for the season.
The Puget Sound Traction, Light
Power company, which operates mos
Of the street car lines of Seattle, ha!
asked the state public service com
mission for permission to-: operate OF
some of the shorter lines cars withou
conductors, the motorman collecting
fares and entrance and exit being Al
the front end, the same as are in use
in Spokane. ~.
AS a result of the confession made
to Governor Lister and Attorney Gen
eral Tanner by Frank w. Stone, alias
"The Portland Kid" that he forged
the bogus claims by means of which
the state accident fund was looted O.
more than 100000 and that such for
gerry was made Eat the direction ant
dictation of J. F. Gillies," former claim
agent for the commission, the trial a
Olympia last week of the latter on {
forgery charge came to an abrupt hal
while the defense is working to rear
(, range its line of defense.
Stones confession took the defense
completely by surprise, and Gillies los
much of his former confidence. He
exclaimed at his celiein the county
Jail: tits all allie and frame up
At the request of the attorney fol
the defense, Judge ]. R. Mitchell, aftel
permitting the state to indorse Stone
as witness for the state, adjourned
court for few days.
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