White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Major Albert A. Perkins, attached
to the staff of Brigadier General j.
Osterhaus, retired, In the civil war
died recently at Los Angeles.
The Rev. Madison Slaughter, pastor
of the Chico (Cal.), Baptist church,
who was convicted and sentenced to
Is years for attacking Gertrude Lam
son, is now in San Quentin prison.
M. j. Clint, a fisherman, was drown
ed, three other men had narrow es-
capes from death and two fishing pow
er boats were lost in the surf in Sun
set bay, near Marshfield, Ore, Sun
day.
| Deputy Sheriff Teagarden of Placer
county, California, was shot and fatal
ly wounded Saturday by Finley Biggs,
a mailcarrier at Mount Vernon, a
prosperous farming community, nine
miles from Auburn. Biggs surrender
ed himself to the sheriff.
A voting contest to select the most
popular girl in Oregon and southern
Washington to be the queen of the
Rose festival in Portland on June 10
resulted, according to figures made
public, in the election of Miss Muriel
Sailing of Pendleton, Ore.
Three boys, members of the Colum-
bia Park Boys club of San Francisco,
were instantly killed Sunday, another
was fatally injured, and fifth slightly
hurt, when the automobile in which
| they were riding was struck at South
ern Pacific railroad crossing at Red
wood City, Cal.
Myself and II women, of the kind
you are seeking to drive out of the
city, have sworn to kill you" wrote a
woman recently to Bascom Johnson,
executive secretary of the Law En-
forcement league, San Francisco, who
| la waging campaign against disor-
derby houses.
The amazing confession written to
his parents that he was German spy
enlisted in the Canadian army expe-
dictionary force was discovered on the
person of Fritz Lehman, who used sew
eral aliases and who was arrested at
Vancouver, B. c., two weeks ago on
suspicion. He was sentenced to two
years in prison.
A body found in Columbia slough,
near Portland, Ore, was identified as
that of Miss Ella May Harris, former
teacher, who had been missing since
May 8, at which time she had declared
she could no longer bear her burdens
and would destroy herself. Miss Har-
ris first disappeared May s, leaving a
note to her sister, saying: II won't
sell my body for money, and can not
seem to keep place."
California is going to have a bump
er crop of grapes, according to present
reports received by the fruit men, for
it appears now that the frost of few
weeks ago did not damage the fruit
as feared. Thus, in table grapes at
least, each sprout is setting two
punches of grapes instead of the GUS
tomary one, which leads the fruit men
to make an estimate of more than 100
per cent of crop. Last year the
grape production was so per cent.
At the annual convention of the
Oregon Retail Merchants association,
held at Astoria, G. Clifford Barlow Of
| WarrentOwn was elected president,
while L. r. Merrick, on whom a fierce
fight has been made by certain ele>
ment, headed by R. G.. Duncan Of
Portland, was reelected secretary.
Other officers chosen were: w. A.
Bell of Eugene, first vice president;
A. G.. Marsters of Roseburg, second
vice president; r. M. Smith of Bend,
third vice president, and T b m s
Watts of Reuben, treasurer.
The navy department announces the
program for the summer cruise Of the
Washington and Oregon naval militia
and the First battalion Of CALIFORNIA;
naval militia. The Californians will
board the battleship Oregon at San
Francisco, July Is, and disembark at
the same place July 20; the Oregon
militiamen will start from Portland on
the cruiser Marblehead July Is and re-
turn July 20 and the Washingtonians
will ship on the cruiser New Orleans
at Tacoma July Is and disembark at
Seattle August s. Pay, transportation
and subsistence will be allowed all Of
ficers and men who report on the dates
announced and serve throughout the
cruise.