White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-02-09
WASHINGTON ITEMS

More than 100 persons from this
state now are in Germany.
D. d. Kelly has sold for 1920 his
240-acre farm near Odessa, to Simon
Roloff of Canada.
The German-American bank, Seat.
tie, with capital of 100000, and de.
posits Of $1,500,OOO, has failed.
A big attendance is expected at
the northwest mining convention to
be held in Spokane February 10 to %.
A deal has been consummated by
which the sugar factory at Waverly
has been sold to Mr.. Heinz of San
Francisco. The machinery goes to
Los ngeles.
The commandant of the Puget
sound navy yard ordered the en-
frances closed to all persons except
employees, and these are required to
be identified.
A walkout of furnace men at the
Northport smelter occurred Saturday
They quit when their force was re.
duced. A union organizer is working
among the employees, about 200 of
whom are idle.
A bill prohibiting the indiscriminate
sale of revolvers and pistols; also a
bill reestablishing capital punishment
in Washington as a penalty for muir.
der have been introduced in the leg.
islature.
Charles A. Brand, chief of the bu-
reau Of markets, Washington, D. c.,
has wired the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce that the wheat grades con-
ference would be held in Spokane
February II. The hearing is in con-
nection with Spokanes application for
the establishment of laboratory
and standardization bureau in Spo.
kane.
Senator Miles Poindexter introduc.
ed an amendment in congress to the
agricultural bill proposing the appro.
priation Of $4,000 for the destruction
Of the insects in this state. With the
amendment was another to allow
$4,000 to the secretary Of agriculture
to be spent in cooperative work in
forage crop investigation in this
state east of the Cascades.
John Vandell of Bordeaux, Wash,
who shot and killed E. w. Olson,
n a Of tot IND fv{o ~ ~,
surance commission, in the commits
sioner's office at Olympia last Thurs
day, declares he had no relatives OF
friends, except an aged mother. He
refused to tell where she lived, say
ing he did not want her to know
of the shooting. He said he had NO
money.
Without dissenting vote in either
house substitute house bill Is, carry.
ing out the compromise recommends.
tons dividing the courses of study
between the University of Washing.
ton and Washington State college,
and house bill 143. concurring land
grants and other federal aid to the
college, were passed under suspen.
sion of rules and taken to Governor
Lister for his signature.
Estimating the 1917 output of grai1
bags at the state penitentiary jute
mill at 1,125,000 sacks, compared will
100000 sacks in 1916, the STATE
board of control announces the ap
portionment of bags to the countie.
of the state.
Farmers must put their acquisitions
for bags in the hands of the board
before March 81. The bags will be
held at 1Oh cents each, an advance
of half cent over the 1916 price
The apportionment to eastern Wash
ington counties follows:
Whitman. 26S.3OO; Lincoln, $4,000
Walla Walla, 119,80O; Adams, 113, 400
Spokane, $4,000: Asotin, 1860; Ben
ton. 5000; Chelan, 1900; Douglas, 60,
800: Ferry. 100; Franklin. 21.7O0
Garfield, 43,500; Grant, 6O,2O0; Kit
titas, 400; Okanogan, 5000; Pent
Oreille, 1900; Stevens, 100; Yakima
34O0.
Deaths and Funerals.
Samuel Merriman, age 81, a resi-
dent of Spokane.
J. G. Pierce, a well-known farmer
of Colfax section of the country, II
dead.
The funeral of Mrs Maria Dortt
Schaffer, pioneer, was held at Odes
ga Friday.
Mrs. Henry Berke, pioneer of Doug
las county. was buried at Waterville
February 2.
The funeral Of Fred Hellbaum, {
well-known resident of Whitman coun
ty. was held recently at Endicott.
Funeral services for H. T. Cowley
early missionary in the Spokane coun
try, who died recently at San Diego
was held Sunday at Spokane.