White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-05
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The sale of 1926 acres of choice or
chard land in the Lake Chelan dis
trict is reported, price $4,000.
Regular service was inaugurated
over the Charleston extension of the
electric street car line Saturday.
The funeral services Of Mrs. S. j..
Sutton, mother of State Senator w. j.
Sutton, were conducted at Hatton Sat
urday.
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale
university, who was to have toured
the state this month, has been de-
tanned owing to his sons illness.
]. A. Young, alleged swindler is said
to have been arrested at San Bernar-
dino. 1t is charged that he beat firms
in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland out Of
nearly $4,000.
Delegates from Lincoln county to the
Inland Empire Sunday school conven-
tions are eligible to attend sessions
at Colville May to 10, or at Water
vile, May II to 10.
Edward j. Kane, age As, superin-
tendent of building for real estate
cofpany, was killed instantly Satur-
day when an automobile overturned
on him near Spokane.
John Krant Mclean, pioneer rail
road builder of the days when the great
railroad systems were first breaking
their way through the western country.
died recently at Spokane.
A big crowd of old-time settlers of
the northern Big Bend country, from
Coulee City, Hartline, Almira, Govan,
Creston and Wilbur, met Saturday in
Wilbur and organized a pioneer asso-
citation for the district.
There is petition in circulation to
be presented to Governor Lister this
week asking a pardon for Frank w.
Stone, confessed forger in connection
with the looting of the industrial in
surance funds of more than $4,000.
After kissing his mother goodby,
Howard G. Zeiger, aged 10, took poi
son recently at Tacoma and was found
dead. The boy took the same kind of
committed suicide there four years
ago.
A resolution asking the next legis.
lature to prohibit the importation OF
Intoxicating liquors for private use, as
is now permitted under the dry law
was passed by the State Association OF
Chiefs Of Police, which met last week
at Bremerton.
A band of armed Lummi Indians Sun.
day captured eight Austrian fishermen
: island, where the fishermen Saturday
were held as prisoners. The Indians
seized the fishermens boat and their
nets. Because the land on which the
prisoners are held is part of the Lum-
mi Indian reservation and under fed
eral jurisdiction the sheriff of What
com county said he was unable to res
cue the prisoners.
8 Judge Preble, in decision filed
with the Yakima county auditor, holds
/. that County Commissioners Dimmick
, Coumbe and Freeman may not pay At
torneys Snively and Bounds 1915 from
the county treasury for maintaining
through the courts the legality of thu
recall of their predecessors in Office
and the legality Of the appointment o
Preble holds that their personal in
terest bars it as a public debt.
When the conference committee O
Congress reported it's agreement on tn,
Indian appropriation bill Saturday, i
was found that all the Washington
items had been adopted. These include
: legislation for opening the SpokaHt
Indian reservation to mineral leases
the sale-ef ss0 aaarr e ss 81 the abandone,
y Spokane Indian reservation; $4,000
: payment on the West Okanogan Irri
cation project, and the payment o
100000 to the Yakima Indians TO
their water rights.
A reservation hay grower hal
topped the market and broken thu
record of many years by selling {
GaIlOdu 10 SOuuu pdTLleS at Scc PEI
ton f. o. b. cars. The hay was no
an exceptionally good lot but it was
about the last carload in growers
hands in the Yakima district. and The
purchaser needed 1t badly. The re
tail price in North Yakima for No.
alfalfa is now $2450. One reserva
tion farmer, who paid 5000 an acre
for his land four years ago, sold 4O(
tons this year, harvested from 81
acres, for $4,000.
The United States reclamation com
mission has authorized the expendi
ture of 100000 in the construction
of a hydro-electric pumping plan
near Grandview and the construction
Of pipe line laterals for the irrigation
of 1000 acres included in the Grand
view pumping plant unit. This is the
last unit of the Sunnyside project. II
is expected that water will be fur
nished by next spring. The Benton
county commissioners will hold 8
hearing on May 1 in regard to call
ing an election to create the Grand
view irrigation district This has
been done once, but on account Of an
error the government requires that
the formal proceedings be repeated.