White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-02-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Fred Lowe, Entiat rancher, recently
froze to death while going home.
Recent damage done to bridges and
streets of Starbuck will exceed $4,000.
Principal w. E. Wilson of the Ellens
burg State Normal school has resign
ed.
Recent freezing weather checked the
floods that have been causing damage
in many towns.
A considerable section of the Pacific
highway, which was recently COM
pleted by the state, south Of Belling-
ham, has been destroyed by rain and
slides.
A graduate botonical student of the
University of Washington reports dis
covering peridermium balsameum, a
fir rust, attacking the giant frs in the
Cascades and the foothills of the
Olympic.
The farm residence of w. E. Nc
Boyle, on the old Stitzel homestead,
three miles east of Colville, was burn
ed recently. The loss is about $4,000
with small insurance. A defective flue
caused the fire.
Coming to school on snowshoes and
skees, sliding over the schoolhouse
roof and climbing down to the door
through hole cut through IL feet of
snow is the experience of children at
the school at Meadow Creek, out from
Ellensburg.
The Washington educational survey
commission has selected DR.. w. G.
Bagley, professor of education at the
University of Illinois, as one of the
two men who will conduct an investi-
cation of the educational institutions
of the state.
A quarantine has been pu ton all
strawberry plant shipments into the
Hartford and White Bluffs districts by
State Fruit Inspector Luke Powell.
The strawberry weevil is causing
much damage in the Kennewick and
Richland districts
The flood in Crab creek reached the
town of Wilson Creek Sunday, carry
gorging at the bridges and doing much
damage to country and railroad prop
erty. A small bridge on the main line
of the Great Northern a mile west of
| town was swept out.
OF Washington's five representatives
in the house not one can be found to
say a kind word for the plan of Lin
dley Garrison, former secretary Of war
for creating force of federal volun
teers to be called continentals In
this they are in accord with the ma
jority of their fellow members.
Giles Quimby, who shot and killed
John Tornow, the Wynooche outlaw
three years ago, after Tornow had kill
ed six people, has sued the state fol
the $1,000 reward offered by former
Governor Hay for the capture or STAY
ing of Tornow. Quimby received $4,000
reward from Grays Harbor county fol
his feat.
One man was killed instantly and
another probably fatally injured Sun
day when passenger train struck an
automobile on the Main street cross
ing at Sumner. The dead man is G.
r. Campbell, age %, of Alberta, Can
ada, who was enlisted in the Cana
L ti,,r II r.
to bid goodby to his mother and sis
ter before departing for the front
Porter Mccall, driver of the automo
bile, was hurled 100 feet He was un
conscious when picked up and is in a
precarious condition
Initiative measures providing for q
preferential presidential primary, non
partisan primaries and elections fol
state and county offices, first aid
law for accident victims, fish code
placing taxes on all fish caught in the
waters of the state, and home rule
bill giving cities powers to regulate
all public utilities and curtailing the
powers of the public service commits
| SlOll, nave UOCu lllCu WIFI IIlo SCCTG
tary of state for submission to the vo
tiers at the next general election in
November. The measures were fileG
by Miss Lucy Case of Seattle, secre
tary of the joint legislative committee
Of the State Grange, State Federation
of Labor, Farmers Union and Direct
Legislation League.
The state republican central commit
tee has decided to hold the state con
vention for election of IA delegates te
the national republican convention al
North Yakima, May 6. The conven
ton will be composed of 1877 delegates
apportioned among the counties of the
state on the basis of one delegate fol
each 200 votes cast for Senator Yves
ley l.. Jones in 1914, with two addi
tional delegates at large for each coun
ty. The vote cast for Senator Jones
was 130,479. The date for county con
| oopt;opo u,oc for ApriI 90 Thu