White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-04-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS


Liquor valued at $500. the accu-
mutation of three months of raids on
warehouses and bootleggers points in
Seattle, was destroyed Monday.
The. division of farm crops, Wash
ington State college, still has about
100 bushels of superior strains of
seed oats which it is selling at 2
cents pound.
The North Yakima clearing house
banks did $1,OOO,OOO more business in
March this year than in March, 1916.
The total for the month ending Mch.
81 was $2,939,61S.
Incessant rain fell at Camp Cos.
grove, at American lake and as a
result the men of the second Wash
ington regiment remained in their
tents because of the inclement wealth.
er.
Walter A. Holt, who graduated from
Washington State college from the
department of horticulture, with the
class of 1913, has been appointed
county agriculturist for Okanogan
county.
The warehousing of wool at Port
land and other places instead of di'
rect selling is to be tried this year
by the Yakima wool growers more
than at any time in the past. The
and good 0i1f
look encourages sheepmen to grade
and pack and store the wool, selling
later direct to the mills.
For the first time in years both
wheat farmers and stockmen in the
Sprague country are facing really
dangerous shortage of hay and feed
Ordinary grain hay cut from fall
wheat is selling at $40 ton in the
stack in the field and baled grain
hay that is being shipped into Sprague
| is expected to advance to $25 during
the week.
A. Lindsey, saw filler in logging
camp in Grays Harbor county, who
shot and killed Edward Goslin, camp
cook, Saturday, was captured by 8
deputy sheriff on mountain road a
few miles from the camp. Lindsey
and the officer covered each other
simultaneously with their rifles, but
the latter shot the fugitive in the
hand, causing him to drop his weapon
Cooperative buying of supplies by
Yakima county school districts has
been adopted by Is districts of the
county association of school directors
acquisitions for years supplies will
be compiled and dealers and manu-
facturers will be asked to bid on the
total. All districts in the county are
expected to join. Reduced prices ant
Standardization of supplies are the OBJ
jects sought.
The jury in the case Of Mayor Hi
ram G. Gill, Chief of Police Chas. L
Rockingham and City detectives M
M. Peyser, John Poolman, Jas. Doom
and Daniel ]. McLennan, on trial il
the United States district court at Sc
attic, charged with conspiracy to vic
late the federal laws by importation
of liquor into the state, returned ,
verdict of not guilty as to all the de
PENDANTS Saturday.
An automobile containing four pc,
sons plunged through the railing of
bridge over the Nisqually river o.
the Pacific highway, Is miles south
west of Tacoma Sunday; and lande
on the Northern Pacific tracks,
feet below. Frank Pridmore, tn
driver, was instantly killed and Mri
Ada Runquist, bride of a week, die
from her injuries, 20 minutes later
Mrs. Nellie Pridmore was probabl
fatally injured. Charles Runquist es
capped with slight bruises.
The Washington State experiment
station will begin at once it's ez
tensiye forage crop Investigations au
thorized by the federal government
for which appropriations of $500
each were made by congress and b.
the state legislature. DR.. Ira d. Cal
diff, director of the state experiment
station, who will, have direct charg
of the work, considers the problem o
adequate forage one of the most i'm
portant agricultural problems cor
fronting the farmers of the state tt
day.
Recent Deaths.
The Rev. Robert Boyd, who in 1877
J organized the first Presbyterian work
} died in Los Angeles recently.
The funeral of William ]. Gilpil
took place at Orient. He was pic
neer real estate and mining man.
William F. INITIAL, age 80, died a
Walla Walla, March 81. Born in Eng
land he saw active service in the Or
mean war.
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