White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-02-02
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Turkey enthusiasts of Richland
have imported considerable fine stock
recently.
Seattle will soon vote on a $780,
900 bond issue for market and stor-
age plant.
The Washington State Federation
of Labor ended its annual conven-
ton at Everett Saturday.
Richland will receive $4,000 from
the state road fund to be expended
on roads in that section.
| A bill providing that all text books
for schools be printed in the state is
to be presented to the legislature.
Two thousand quarts of whisky
rum and brandy and about 100 cases
of beer, were grabbed in Seattle re-
Gently.
Andrew Bechtel and Lee r. Err
land, each about % years old, were
killed at Seattle in an auto accident
recently.
!! A. l.. Paine of Hoquiam was elected
president Of the West Coast Lumber
mems association at it's annual meet
ing last week.
The first snow of the winter fell
at Seattle Sunday. 1t reached depth
Of three inches near the salt water
and of six inches two miles inland.
Expenditure of 100000 in the Yak
ina valley during the coming year
has been authorized by the executive
committee of the Northern Pacific.
E. A. Benson of Tacoma has been
offered and has accepted the position
Of commissioner of agriculture The
appointment will take effect April 1.
Mrs Florence G.. Axtell of Belling-
ham, appointed by the president to
membership on the employees COM
pensation commission at $4,000 a year,
is at the national capital.
w. T. Tyler, for two years super
intendent of the Pasco division of the
Northern Pacific, has assumed his
new duties as general manager of the
Cotton Belt Line, in Texas.
Plans for reduction in the hum
Der of state officers and possible con-
solidation of state departments and
commissions will be taken up this
week with Governor Lister.
Sheep wintering on the 13,OOO-acre
property IL miles north of Benton
City in the Yakima valley, are warm
ed by burning gas from the natural
gas well there, according to report.
The Tacoma Gas company went
into the hands of receiver recently.
The company supplies artificial gas
to Tacoma, Ruston, Dupont and Puy-
allup. 1t is capitalized for $7,500,000
The transformation of dormant peat
bogs into productive cranberry fields
offers a great opportunity in this
state in the opinion of j. H. Dalton,
deputy in the department of agricul-
ture.
M w. Ahern bought the Lottie E.
Gates farm of 24O acres east of Rear
dan, for $4,000. He also bought the
north one-half of section 3, township
81, range 35, south of Downs, for
$1,000.
F. E. DeSellem, county horticul-
turist Of North Yakima, in his annual
report to the state department, Civ.
en- out at Olympia, shows he inspect
ed during the shipping season, g.
034.393 packages.
c. P. Stewart, speaking before the
Farmers union at Walla Walla, rec
commended the use of the fiber of the
banana palm, thousands Of tons of
which are wasted annually, as sub
stitute for jute in making grain bags.
Bags from banana fibre would be
three times as lasting as jute bags,
he said.
Eastern Washington counties will
receive the following for current
school money from state funds:
Yakima. $24,47o; Adams, $5,572;
Asotin. $3,827; Benton. $4,479; Che
Ian, $8.741; Columbia, $500; Doug
las, 1924; Ferry, $3.50; Franklin,
$2.7O1; Garfield, $2,467; Grant, $4,000;
Kittitas, $9,068; Klickitat, $4,9S4;
Lincoln, $9.695; Pend Oreille, 1854;
Spokane, $63,647; Stevens, $1O,S13;
Walla Walla, $14,3S9; Whitman, $780,
040.
The money is apportioned on the
basis of school attendance, six ap-
portionments being made each year
Recent Deaths.
Joseph Murphy, age 35, is missing
from Pasco.
Gottfried Croft, age 80, died at Ell
berton Sunday
Mrs M. Cooper, age 70. died at
Tekoa recently.
Col. Eugene Syre Topping is dead |
at Victoria, B. C.
John L. Bowers. aged rs, died at
Spokane Saturday.
John Fisher, aged So, civil war vet
eran and early pioneer of Spokane,
is dead.
closed Saturday morning, during the
funeral of Peter Lightle, an old pio-
neer.
Mrs. Frank Huber ST., age II, a