White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS

At Rosalia, Saturday, Grandma"
Profit, died, being 81 years old.
May 20 has been set as the date for
Pomeroy's next horse show.
Seattle reports clam and crab beds
greatly injured by recent cold snap.
A city market, the first to be inau-
gurated in Pasco, was opened Satur-
day.
Amanda Curtis of Palouse, age 81
years, died Saturday. Her. husband
died a week previous.
At Pullman last Saturday Leonard
Crawford, age 81, and for 40 years a
resident of Whitman county, died.
Claude Brislawn, of the Splague high
school, won the gold medal of the
Northeastern Washington high school
oratorfcal league.
Saturday, May 20, has been named
as "Kennewick Strawberry day" by
the commercial club and the Kenne-
wick Strawberry union.
Governor Lister has issued a proc
lamation making the week starting on
May Is Kindness to Children and An
imals" week in Washington
Edward G. Wallace Of Spangle pass
ed his ninetieth milestone in the jour-
ney Of life last week. He was born
in Middletown, Ohio, in 1926.
D. o. Leith, representing Wolcott,
Beers & Grant, Of Kansas City, is at
the stockyards at Spokane buying
horses and mules for the British gov
eminent.
Major H. w. Patton, president of the
Washington State Press association,
announces that July 10, IA and 15, had
been selected as the dates upon which
the 1916 session will be held at Ellens-
burg.
James Clink, Mrs. Alice Williams
and Edward Beck have been Jailed at
Ritzville on a charge Of murder in the
first degree in connection with the
death of Frank Adwell, near Sprague,
about 18 months ago.
The King county democratic CEN
trail committee Saturday adopted res
olutions requesting the Washington
delegates to the democratic national
convention to vote for Senator James
Hamilton Lewis for vice president
Delegates from upper Yakima val
ley oranges have adopted resolutions
urging support Of nonpartizan initia-
tive measure, saying the elimination
of party control is the only way to Sc
cure lower taxes and efficiency in
public office.
Elk brought from the Yellowstone
national park and recently liberated in
Kittitas county are reported to have
strayed southeasterly into the Cold
creek and Barrel Springs district of
Yakima and Benton county, which Is
sparsely settled.
An increase of $5,OO0,OO0 over any
other month in the history of the port
Of Seattle, is shown in Seattles wa
terborne commerce for April. 1t to-
tailed for April $36,394,OO0. The most
was with Vladivostok, on war mate
rial; Alaska was second
Our governor has asked d. B. Gar
rison of Cornell, secretary Of the state
board of pharmacy, to take up with
the other members of the board the
advisability Of taking the licenses
away from all druggists who are found
guilty of violating the statewide pro
hibition law.
The International Kindergarten un
ion convention at it's recent session al
Cleveland, selected Boston as the 1917
convention city Miss Katherine r
Watkins, Washington, d. c., was elect
ed president; Miss Clara Meisner, Ell
lensburg, Wash, second vice presi
dent, and Miss Bessie M. Park, of Des
Moines, Iowa, recording secretary.
j. A. Young, alias w. Levine, VIII
liams, Winters, Wright, Thomas, etc.
made clean breast of deals at Taco
ma, by which since 1914 he has swim
died coast grain dealers out of Sill,
$50, most of which he has since lost In
promotion schemes. Young made g
full confession He was once account
ed one of the best grain experts In
Utah and formerly was both mayor
and postmaster of Utah city.
Mayor Gill of Seattle has directed
the corporation counsel to draft city
ordinance providing fine or jail sen
tence or both for the buyer of liquor
as we'll as the seller. The ordinance
will also provide that no person may
carry liquor into restaurant or other
public place for consumption. Drug
gists will be required to file each
Monday report showing the number
of prescriptions for liquor filled the
week before, together with the names
and addresses of the purchasers. The
ordinance will further provide that nc
druggist may have on hand more than
10 gallons in excess of one barrel of
liquor and that the supply must be
kept at the store.
The police may inventory the liquor
in any drug store at any time.
In a Commercial Way.
j. S. Perry is opening general
store at Valley.
William Rolton will open q drug
store at Richland.