White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-02-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS

OluST CltIeS ldIoT.
Thomas Dorricott, age IS, pioneer
meat dealer of Walla Walla and Spo
kane, died recently.
The first steel bridge over the San
Poll river is now In process of con
struction at Keller.
Since the beginning of the dry era
no arrests or complaints of drunken
ness have been made in Pasco.
| Davenport is pestered with a "Jack
the PEPPER" whose peeping in win.
dows at several homes recently has
| annoyed a number Of women.
General improvement in conditions
which were demoralized by the big
snowstorm last week was reported
from all sources on the coast.
The twenty-second annual conven
ton of the Washington State Bee
keepers association will be held at
North Yakima February $40.
At recent meeting of the directors
Of the Fairfield cooperative creamery
1t was voted to install an ice plant in
connection with the creamery.
On the earnest pleas of Representa-
tive Humphrey, the committee put in
to the rivers and harbors bill an item
Of $34S,OOO for the Lake Washington
canal at Seattle.
The large ice jam which had form
Columbia river bridge at Wenatchee
broke last Thursday. The water fell
four feet within six hours.
Freight on the flour cargo Of the
American steamer Eurania, which left
Tacoma Saturday for Great Britain,
was approximately $336,OO0. The val
ue of the cargo was $426,331.
The farmers get-together meeting at
La Crosse Saturday was we'll attend
ed. Bulk grain and granaries were
the principal topics discussed. The
next meeting will be February II.
mum of practicability for the short
course in the department of veterinary
science at the state college a horse
shoeing class for farmers has been
started.
A Great Northern fast mail bound
for Seattle, was wrecked at Rock ISL
and Sunday when the engine and an
express car plunged through an open
switch and left the track after crash
ing into string of box cars on the
siding.
During the first five weeks Of the
operation of the prohibition law five
permits to import liquor were issued
by the county auditor. There have
been no arrests for drunkenness and
only two for other crimes in all Pend
Oreille county,
+ The University of Washington foot
ball team will not meet the w. s. C.
eleven in the fall of 1916. The desire
to renew athletic relations with the
state college was expressed, but full
schedule prohibits the possibility of a
game this fall.
The state supreme court Saturday
denied the petition of ]. A. Gottstein,
formerly O liquor dealer of Seattle. for
a rehearing of the suit to prevent the
enforcement of the state prohibition
law. The supreme court December 10
upheld the constitutionality of the law
Mrs. Maria Cults, age So, died re-
Gently at Wenatchee. Mrs. Cults was
the mother of Captain George McMas-
tiers of Wenatchee, Fred Of Danville.
ILL.,, Harry and Russell Cults of Wa.
terville, Mrs. Clara Ferris of Seattle
and Mrs. Alfred E. Owen of New York
city.
The large brick building, valued at
100000, formerly owned by Martin
Elan and afterward by R. W. Dough
erty of LaGrande, has been sold to
James Nolan of Sunnyside. Mr.. Nolan
gave wheat and alfalfa lands at Una.
pine, valued at $4,000, in part pay.
ment.
In a final attempt to move the wheat
Of the Inland Empire for export trade
at rate which will counterfeit the
high cost of charters, grain men are
diverting the grain to New Orleans,
and before the end Of February sew
eral boats will leave that port for the
united kingdom carrying Big Bend and
Palouse wheat.
At lone last Sunday the 14-year-old
son of Samuel Nelson was shot in the
forehead with a 20 rifle and can not
recover. The gun was in the hands of
a young daughter of Mr.. Ballard and
she had snapped the trigger several
times whiue the gun was pointed at
the children, when an old cartridge in
the gun suddenly exploded.
National stock associations of the
east are showing greater interest than
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