White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Fred Arrowsmith was reelected
drainage supervisor Of Sunnyside dis
trict.
Miss Scott Montgomery, age Sc,
died at Colfax Saturday. She had
long been in the P. o. department.
Mrs. Julia E. Jarnigan, age Is, a
descendant of the great jurist, John
Marshall, died in Sunnyside recently.
Jake Blake, son of the late Judge
R. B. Blake, Spokane, was accident
ally asphyxiated Sunday at San Fran
cisco.
George w. Blackmer, age rs, civil
war veteran and early pioneer of the
west. died of cancer at Walla Walla
Sunday.
| Corn grown by E. E. Starkey of
Prosser won the sweepstakes prize at
the corn show of the First National
bank of st. Paul.
The dead body of Joseph Smith, a
civil war veteran, with the skull
fractured in several places, was found
recently six miles from Seattle.
William T. Shearer, age % brake.
man on the Great Northern running
out of Hillyard, was killed Saturday
near Libby, Mont, by a passenger
train.
Advances in the price Of wheat
have given the holders at Walla
Walla of 100000 bushels of wheat
the hope of high prices for their
grain.
Engineer Heasley, Tacoma; Fire
man Rapp, Tacoma, were killed Sun
day when a Northern Pacific pas
senger train, running from Hoquiam
to Moclips, hurled log across the
track.
The Puget Sound Traction, Light
and Power company, operating street
car lines in Seattle, announces an in
crease in the wages of 1000 conduc'
tors and motormen. On January l.
1917, another increase of / cent an
hour.
The Whitman County Farmers
union, in session recently, passed res
olutions asking the county commits,
soners and the prosecuting attorney
to push with vigor the cases charging
that the county road payrolls were
padded.
The ak squad of the Seattle police
department was set to work In the
Breakers cafe on First avenue recent
ly and everything in the place was
destroyed The place was padlocked
by the police after they had purchased
liquor with marked money, they say
The demolished bar and fixtures were
valued at several thousand dollars
Mrs Martha A. Drumheller, a pic,
neer of 1859, died Saturday at Walla
Walla. She was the widow of Jesse
Drumheller, a big wheat rancher OF the
valley. Mrs. Drumheller was mem
Der of the we'll known Maxon family
and was married in 1868 to Mr.. Drum
heller, pioneer Of 1852. Mrs. Drum
heller leaves five children.
Stuart Morris, art manager OF
Seattle paper is the winner of thu
$1,000 prize in the trademark compe
tition conducted by Western Uniol
Life Of Spokane. His design was Sc
lected from among 1853 entries, repre-
senting every state and territory II
the Union, all the provinces in Canadt
and 10 foreign countries.
The Official count of the ballots cas-
in the November election, made by thu
state canvassing board, shows the fol
lowing vote: For president Hughes
166,399; Wilson, 182,993; Benson, SO
cialist, 22,544; Hanley, prohibitionist
1923; Reimer, socialist labor. 700.
For United States senator, Poindex
ter, republican, 192,287; Turner, demo
crat, 1876 1888; Rogers, socialist, 21,7O9
Campbell, prohibition, 4441; Thomr
son, socialist, labor, 1141.
For governor, Mcbride, republican
167,SO2; Lister, democrat, 181 ,642; Kat
terrified, socialist, 21,117; Gellermar
prohibition, 1914; Bradford, progress
i've, 1884; Riordan, socialist labor, 62a
Sixty residents of the Naches, We
mas, Selah and Mckee valleys, repre-
senting an extensive acreage not unde
irrigation met recently to discuss pre-
liminaries in connection with the fol
nation of an irrigation district to In
clude $4,000 acres with the idea Q
getting water from the government
storage reservoirs. The plan of tn
Pomona Heights Irrigation district re
Gently formed is to irrigate 5000 acre
by pumping plant. The government
decision to develop storage at MICA
lister Meadows gives an opportunit
to water the Pomona lands by gravit
flow and a new high line ditch can
made to cover the larger area col
templated.
State Commercial News.
E. w. Springer of Spokane ha
purchased the pool hall of w. V. Val
Etten at Adrian.
DR.. G. w. Driesback of Bonner
Ferry, Idaho, has purchased the dru
store of DR.. G. w. Farmer at Greer
acres.
]. A. Nusbaum, contractor, ha
traded his farm near Canyon for tn
Albert C. Schultz harness shop an
residence at La Crosse.
Yeggmen blew the safe in the ger
eral store of William Porter at Nj
| ran WadnaSdav night and Sacurad $40