White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-04-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS


Lee L. Berry, pioneer rancher and
stockman, died near Walla Walla re-
Gently.
Rufus Clapp, pioneer farmer Of
the Touchet valley and veteran of the
civil war, is dead.
c. l.. Phuitt, age sc, justice Of the
peace at Wilbur and former pastor,
died Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Riley Sexton, living
near Dixie, are parents of twins, the
fourth pair to arrive in the Sexton
home.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington Pure Bred Live Stock Breeders
association will be held in Spokane on
June 10.
The Great Northern railroad has let
two contracts for snowsheds in the
Cascades near the summit, which will
keep 1000 men at work until autumn.
The $4,000 Kahlotus school was
dedicated Saturday. The building has
modern equipment including domestic
science and manual training depart
ments.
Following the disastrous fire April l,
when the property loss was estimated
at 100000, another fire occurred April
7 at Riverside. The estimated loss is
about $4,000.
Yakima wool growers and represen-
tatives of wool firms can not agree on
prices this year. and shipments of
clips to Boston houses on consign-
ment or to eastern seaboard ware
houses for storage has commenced.
At meeting of the dairymen in the
Sunnyside section COW testing asso-
citation was formed recently with 500
animals entered for one-year test,
according to the plans as outlined by
A. ]. Lashbrook, dairy field agent for
the state college.
AS the result of several conferences
recently between Representative Dill
and Cato Sells, commissioner of In
dian affairs, some six or seven more
townships are to be added to the area
Of land to be opened on the Colville
Indian reservation
w. A. Ritz of Walla Walla has been
elected president of the board of re-
gents of Washington State college. He
succeeds e. T. Conan of Spokane. d.
S. Troy Of Chimacum was elected vice
president and State Treasurer Meath,
treasurer. The annual budget was ap-
proved.
The current indebtedness of Walla
Walla was reduced in March to the
lowest point in Is years. At the be-
ginning Of March 1t was $96,044 and
the current expense warrants were
called in till but $62,494 was left. The
city commission hopes to have the city
on cash basis in short time.
At a joint meeting in Seattle this
week regents Of the University of
Washington and Washington State
college will discuss the possible elm
nation of conflicting courses at the
two state institutions, and division of
the state mileage tax, which the 1917
legislature will be called upon to ap-
portion between the five institutions
of higher education.
Threatening to enforce the prohibit
ton law themselves If the city and
county authorities do not stop the al
legged sale by sole drink saloons and
drug stores of raw alcohol and other
poisonous intoxicants," members of
the ngshoremen's union, Tacoma
local lodge, adopted resolutions de-
handing law enforcement and naring
committee to take whatever action
was necessary.
Grace Lee, a Chinese girl, will be
salutatorian of the class of 1916 Of
the North Yakima high school, She
lost the the honor of being valedicto-
rian by only per cent, the standing
of Orville Douglas for the four years
he has been in school being $500. Miss
Lee this year won the oratorical prize
given by the Sons of the American
Revolution, and has otherwise distin-
guished herself in school activities
Her. parents keep small restaurant
there.