White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-04-21
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Crickets are destroying crops near
Ephrata.
Citizens Of White Bluffs observed
Arbor day by fencing the cemetery
and planting trees and shrubbery.
Contract for the construction of the
public building at Aberdeen was
awarded to a Seattle firm at $74,059.
The plant of the Gilbert Hunt Co.,
Walla Walla, was acquired Saturday
by bondholders, whose representatives
bid $4,000
Organization Of potato growers Of
the Yakima valley for cooperation in
growing and marketing, has been de-
termined on.
e. H. Stanton has announced that
a union stock yard would be estab-
lished at Kennewick, Wash, within
the next 60 days.
Twelve thousand quarts of beer,
seized by the police who found it stor-
ed on scow moored in the bay, were
dumped into the Seattle bay Saturday.
The jury at Tacoma in the case Of
Arthur Young, charged with uttering
a forgery in connection with the loot
ing of the state industrial insurance
funds of nearly $4,000, returned YER
dict of not guilty
Miss Lea Peterson of Trondjen, Nor
way, student at the University Of
Washington, was drowned Sunday
night when a canoe in which she and
three college mates were riding upset
during a squall on Lake Washington.
Following the resignation Of Profess
sor j. F. Hargraves, who was reflect
ed by the school board, as principal of
the Colfax high school, Professor G.
j. COOL, who has been with the insti-
tuition for three years as professor Of
science, will succeed him as principal.
The marking of the exact spot of
Spokane house, an old fur trading
point of the early '30s and 40s at the
junction Of the Little Spokane and
Spokane rivers, is to be a principal
feature Of the gathering in Spokane
this week Of the Washington State
Historical society.
If the farmers living within $50
miles of Spokane can be interested in
signing contracts to raise total of
5000 acres of sugar beets every year
for five years, the Waverly sugar fac
tory can be reopened in time to make
sugar in the fall of 1917. That will
mean new farm crop that will pay
the farmers 100000 year and will
mean an industry that will hold in the
Inland Empire approximately 100000
year.
James w. Dowding was found guilty
of murder in the first degree at Wen
atchee Saturday. Two ballots were ia
ken. The jury was out one hour be-
fore arriving at the verdict. On the
first ballot II stood for conviction in
the first degree and one for second de-
gree. Dowding Is a physical wreck.
He received the verdict with stolid
calmness. Dowding was convicted of
Killing his wife on November 10, 1915
on the George F. Lucas orchard tract
near Cashmere. The defense was In
sanity.
A summary of the April live stock
report for the state Of Washington, as
compiled by the bureau of crop estl
mates U. s. department of agriculture
is as follows: Hogs-Losses from
disease past year, 1.8 per cent; ten.
year average 1.8 per cent. Cattle
Losses from disease past year, 1.5 per
cent; ten-year average, 1.16 per cent
Losses from exposure past year, IL
per cent, ten-year average 1.5 per cent
| Sheep-Losses from disease past year.
IL per cent; ten-year average, 1.8 per
cent. Losses from exposure past year
81 per cent; ten-year average, 90 per
| cent.
The prohibitory clause Of the Sun
day closing law in this state, in so far
as it relates to merchandising, reads
as follows:
or who shall open any
drinking saloon, or sell, offer, or ex-
pose for sale, any personal property
shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
Provided+ that prepared tobac-
co, milk, fruit, confectionery, newspa-
pers, magazines and medical and sur
gical appliances may be sold in q quiet
and orderly manner"
The reason for the enactment Of
laws in this and other states against
fraudulent and deceptive advertising
was not only to protect the public from
being defrauded in Its patronage OF
such advertisers, but also to protect
the honest advertiser from the sus-
picion that tends to attach to adver-
Using in general because Of the preva-
lerce of such deceptive, exaggerated
and fake" advertising, and thus in
crease the efficiency of all legitimate
advertising.
Building Operations Grow.
Building operations throughout the