White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-01-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS

President E. o. Holland has started
his term as head of the state college.
The first week of the dry law in
Benton county closed with no liquor
permits being issued.
Schickulash Pete, reputed to be 10
years old and the last of the Grays
harbor Indian slaves, died Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Hartman, age SO COM
mitted suicide recently by hanging
herself in the basement of her home at
Tacoma.
The brick school building at Peshas-
tin was burned to the ground recent
ly. Loss $4,000. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
Compulsory military drill for all
male students during their first two
years Of residence at the University Of
Washington will continue
Since the prohibition law went into
effect January there have been sew
en- deaths from alcoholism in Seattle.
Sohe drank pure wood alcohol.
The Chelan County Bar association
recently elected Louis j. Nelson pres
ident, G. G. Hannah vice president and
d. A. Sinner secretary treasurer.
John F. Gillies, Frank w. Stone and
e. w. Kearns, who are alleged to have
been implicated in the looting of the
state accident insurance fund, will be
tried January Is at Olympia.
Senator Jones has introduced a bill
for survey of the Columbia river
from the mouth of the Snake to Priest
Rapids This is to lay the basis for an
appropriation for the improvement Of
the river.
j. P. Holden, proprietor of the sum-
NIT inn at Laconia, official observer
for the government weather bureau,
reports the snowfall exceptionally
heavy, 241 inches having fallen since
January 1, now Sh feet on the ground.
The school board, Walla Walla, has
called an election for January % to
vote on a bond issue for an addition
to the high school building to cost
$4,000, and also for new grade
school building on Ninth street, near
Dreamland park, to cost $4,000.
A large wooden pipe that conducts
water from Cedar lake to Seattle for
the municipal water supply was bro
ken for distance of $50 feet recently
in Maple valley by washout follow
ing leaking that undermined the con-
duit.
A person may have in his possession
under the provisions of the statewide
prohibition law both the maximum of
two quarts of spirituous liquor, and
the maximum of IL quarts of malt
liquor, or beer, according to the at
torney general.
The Lincoln county formers union
recently elected the following Off
GERS: J. C. Mears of Wilbur, presi-
dent; James Sullivan of Creston, vice
president; w. U. Medley of Davenport,
venport, organizer.
For the first time in more than a
year machinists in the locomotive de-
partment of the G. N. Hillyard shops,
near Spokane, are working five and a
half days, SO hours week, within four
hours of full time, while they have
only been working 40 hours week
heretofore.
Elmer e. Johnson, living near Walla
Walla, recently was treated for bullet
wounds accidentally inflicted. In kill
ing rabbit the bullet of an automatic
Winchester struck the wheel of COM
bined harvester, broke in pieces and
rebounded, striking him in the face
and inflicting six wounds.
After leveling a revolver at his baby
and shooting it in the head, A. G. Lar
son, IS, laborer, of Snoqualmie, Wn.,
turned the gun on his wife and then
on himself, while visiting at Seattle.
He died Immediately and the baby
is expected to die. Mrs. Larson was
shot through the neck, and, is thought
will recover.
Wheat prices stiffened at Walla Wal
la Saturday and $4,000 bushels grain
were sold in two days, it is estimated
The largest lot sold was the George
Drumheller crop of 100000 bushels of
club purchased by the Jones-Scott COM
pany, at an average price of 80 cents.
Drumheller will get check for about
$180,00O.
Following Investigations made by Of
ficers of the Olympia Oyster Growers
and Dealers association, it is announc-
ed that the loss to the oyster industry
of Thursday and Mason counties by