White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
WASHINGTON ITEMS

With shortage of $500 in his
postoffice accounts at Waverly, Ben
jamin l.. Tweed, the postmaster, has
skipped.
The total valuation of Yakima coun-
ty real estate and improvements for
1916 is $4,059,415 less than in 1915,
reduction of IA per cent.
Farmers in the vicinity of Rye sta
ton, eight miles north of Colfax,
will erect individual tanks of 6O00-
bushel capacity to handle grain in
bulk.
Jack, 9-year-old son of Mrs. Rose
Nauholz, was accidentally killed re-
Gently at Newport, when he was
struck by an auto driven by S. Heis-
ington.
Arthur Williams, son of Jeffrey
Williams, a farmer, was killed Sat
ruday, when his team ran away and
threw him from high seat into a
barbed wire fence, near Pomeroy.
c. W. Nibley, president of the Utah
Idaho Sugar company, says the COM
pany directors at Salt Lake City have
approved the plan to build sugar
plant in the Yakima valley.
Henry A. Yeomans, graduate of
the Spokane high school with the
class Of 1894, has been appointed
dean of Harvard college. He was
graduated from Harvard in 1900 and
has been teaching at Harvard for
several years.
During the next few weeks the
farmers around Waverly and on the
irrigated tracts of eastern Washing
ton and northern Idaho will be called
upon to decide whether they want to
raise sugar beets enough to reopen
the sugar factory at Waverly on an
enlarged scale.
| The largest consignment of wheat
ever brought to market at Davenport
and possibly in the entire Big Bend
country, by one man, was marketed
Saturday when Hub Moore, farmer
of Egypt, trailed little more than
600 bushels in five wagons behind an
11-ton caterpillar engine.
United States district Judge Net
erer has continued in force until July
81 the temporary order enjoining the
officers and members of the Inter
national Longshoremen's association
of Puget sound from interfering with
the employees and property Of the
Alaska Steamship company.
The three Justices Of the state SUI
preme court whose six-year terms
will expire next January, have filed
notice of candidacy for reelection.
They are George e. Morris, Seattle;
Emmett M. Parker, Olympia; Mark A.
Fullerton, Olympia. The judiciary is
nonpartizan and judges are voted for
on separate ballots without party des-
ignation.
An unusually large consignment of
prime sheep were. shipped from Spo-
kane this week TO Chicago, where
they are expected to top the market
and bring an average price Of $3.50
head. The shipment will consist of
81 carloads, which were gathered by
R. N. Stanfield of Stanfield, Ore,
who purchased them at Lewiston,
Ellensburg and North Yakima. The
shipment consists principally of Cots
wolds and Merinos, all one and two
year-olds. The two-year-olds will av-
erage in weight ia pounds each.
Two men were shot, but not dan
gerously wounded, and third was
severely beaten during, fight be-
tween 16 negro nonunion longshore-
men and strike sympathizers at the
Pike Place public market, Seattle,
Saturday night. F. A. Webb, a but
ter and egg dealer in the market, was
struck in the leg by stray bullet.
William Clarke, a union longshore-
man, was shot in the leg. o. w.
Bridgefarmer, special policeman,
employed as guard at pier No. 6,
was seriously beaten and kicked, suf-
fering a broken nose and numerous
bruises. Several other men engaged
in the fight were badly beaten, but
none was seriously injured.
According to report Of the bu-
reau of inspection filed on the San
Francisco and San Diego fairs, out
Of 100000 appropriated by the 1915
legislature $191,662 was spent, $23,52S
at San Diego and the balance at San
Francisco. The law provided $4,000
for San Diego. The state gets back
$2624 representing the sale Of build
ings in addition to the unexpected
balance. The feature Of the report
shows that Of all money spent at both
fairs less than 81 per cent went for
exhibits; 1876 per cent went for build
ings, furnishings and the like, while
administration expenses ran up to
1871 per cent; general S.6 per cent
and maintenance 5.5 per cent. In
money the expenditures were divided
as follows: Administration, $4,000;
general, s16,49S; exhibit, s70,394;
maintenance, s10,435; construction
and such like, $64,234.
XIII Man.Eatino Shark,