White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-06-23
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The Northern Pacific railway COM
pany has completed the building of
a stock yard at Hatton.
Rufus Merriam, age "a, pioneer real
estate dealer, who resided in the city
since 1888, died in Spokane Sunday.
Sixty-six carloads of horses for
Great Britain have been assembled in
Washington and Oregon within the
last month.
The Leroy and M. F. Backus in
terests in the Lake Chelan Land COM
pany have been taken over by Fred
Furey and associates.
Newspaper men will meet in Ell
lensburg July 10, IA and Is. The
first and parent organization is the
Washington State Press association.
After surviving two days with a
broken neck, Herman C. Froemke,
Summitview rancher, died recently at
Tieton. He was thrown from wagon
and struck on his head
John H. Sinks, age 25, an attendant
at the eastern hospital for the insane
at Medical Lake, was drowned Fri
day in Medical lake while swimming.
The body was recovered.
Spokane was chosen as the 1917
meeting place Of the Washington Bank
ers' association by the executive com
mittee. 1t will probably be some time
during the month of June.
A forest fire which threatened con-
siderable damage recently burned in
the green timber near the camps of
the Greenwood Timber company, IL
miles north of Aberdeen.
AS is the case of cherries and pears,
the Wenatchee apricot crop will fall
far short Of last year shipments,
but will be of high quality and good
CARROTS.
Frank Lane, l.. r. Raymond and
Dwight Byers, who slugged Jailer
Joseph Thomas at the Kittitas coun-
ty Jail in Ellensburg recently and
escaped, are in the Yakima county
jail for safekeeping.
Her throat cut by murderer who
whistled a popular tune while COM
hitting the crime, Mrs. Blanche Cole
man was found murdered in her apart
ment in hotel at Seattle Saturday.
John Souder, cigarman, was ar
rested.
Robert Gaines, pioneer of Wenat-
chez valley and the Entiat, received
letter from nephew, stating that
his brother, Samuel Morton Gaines,
and wife, were killed in the tornado
which struck southeastern Missouri
recently.
The robber who held up the Citi-
zens bank Of Sultan June 16, got
$222S. Fifty men pursued him in the
hills above Sultan, using hounds. The
fugitive eluded the dogs by crossing
streams and marshes. He seems thor
oughly acquainted with the country.
Upon receipt of notice from Secre-
| tary Of War Baker last Sunday the
Washington national guard forces
try, one troop of cavalry and one
company Of signal corps, were direct
ed to mobilize at American lake al
once.
Search parties patrolled Tanun
creek, near Ellensburg, Saturday ant
Sunday, for the body Of Miss Mabe
Peck Of Lind, Wash, a normal schoo
student who was drowned. Mis-!
Peck, who was with picnic party
was crossing the creek on a lot
when she lost her balance and fel
into the water.
A judge at Ellensburg has granted
a divorce to Bessie Thomas from w
r. Thomas. The court also held val
i'd an agreement entered into by thu
parties in March, 1914, by which MI
Thomas was to pay Mrs. Thoma
| 100000 as consideration of her share
of the community property held b.
the two, the money to be paid IL
six annual installments Of $4,000
each. The couple were married at Ell
lensburg in 1895 and have eight chill
dren
In Commercial Way.
Tenny & Haskert are opening {
general store at Loon Lake.
S. Masiti has moved his genera
store from Bossburg to Evans.
Harry Worley has acquired the Cen
trail drug store at Rockford from w
M Parkinson.
Citizens of Springdale and Hunters
Wash, have perfected plans for thu
establishment of creamery a
Springdale to cost about $4,000.
G. e. Hoover, general merchant o.
Lacrosse, left this week, with his
daughter Miss Rachel, by automobile
for an extended visit to Mr.. Hoover's
old home in Indiana.
| George B. Hurd & Company, gen
eral merchants at Rockford, are
building large warehouse at the
rear Of the building and remodeline
the interior
Burglars entered the store of the
| Sprague Rochdale Co. at Sprague last
| week and took $9.95 from the cash
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