White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-04-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The funeral of Mrs. A. B. Pettijohn,
age 80, was held at Ritzville Friday.
There is hardly field of fall grain
in the Elberton region that dis not
damaged
The railroads have started paying
back wages to the men affected by the
supreme court decision on the Adam
son law.
The Ephrata Hotel company, con-
sisting of prominent business men, has
completed plans for the immediate
erection of modern hotel there.
With call for warrants issued Sat
urday the city of Walla Walla is near
ly on a cash basis, warrants up to
February being called in. But $4,000
are outstanding.
Spokane retail milk prices were in
creased II to 1875 per cent Monday
morning. Quarts, which have been
selling 10 for II, will be nine for 81,
and pints will sell 16 instead of Is
for 81.
H. H. Curtiss, pioneer dairyman of
Pullman, recently shipped an eight.
months-old Jersey bull to Benton coun-
ty, receiving $500 for the animal The
bull will go to an association of Ben
ton county farmers.
With orders to rush work to com
pletion on the first unit of the Mil
waukee line identification, two crews
of engineers are in Ellensburg working
on surveys for the transmission line
and trolley construction.
The highest price ever paid for
wheat around Cotton, Whitman coun-
ty, was reached Saturday, when Jacob
Weber, buyer purchased 1000 bush
els from c. A. and ]. w. Parks, father
and son, for $2.251s a bushel.
The property of the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company in this
state is appraised at $11 ,637 ,466 by the
state tax commission for 1917, com
pared to $42,OO9,291 for 1916. The tax
board certifies the appraisement to the
county assessors for assessment pur-
poses.
The bodies of three small boys,
Billy Williams, 6year-old son of b.
" Williams, an Associated Press op
orator; Raymond Mills, 9-year-old son
of j. Mills, and Jack lizard, age IL
were found Sunday on gasoline
launch in Lake Washington, Seattle
asphyxiated by gasoline fumes.
Number 1 Yakima Gem potatoes
were quoted 500 a ton wholesale Sat
urday, the highest price on record
When the scant Seattle supply gives
out the price will go still higher, as
Yakima county farmers Saturday be-
gan asking 500 at the shipping point
Less than SO carloads are on hand in
Seattle.
The clip of wool belonging to the
Prosser Land and Live Stock com
pany stored recently in Portland was
sold Saturday, graded on the basis OF
"A cents for fine and So cents a pound
for coarse woods, the highest price
ever known for northwest wool. The
clip was put in storage three weeks
and and amounts to 100000 pounds.
Fred and Ora Billingsley, younger o
the three brothers sentenced by thu
United States court at Seattle, afte
pleading guilty to the charge of con
spiracy to import liquor into the stat
of Washington, were taken to Belling
ham Saturday, Fred to serve months
and Ora 80 days in the Whatcom coun
ty Jail. Logan Billingsley is under j;
months sentence to the federal peni
Tertiary.
Acting upon the suggestion Of Cover
nor Alexander of Idaho, Governor Err
est Lister has telegraphed to the mem
bers of the western governors con
ference, saying that he, as presiden
of the conference, favors the COVER
nors attending personally the nationa
defense conference called By Secretar
of War Baker for May 2 at Washing
ton. Secretary Baker asked the gov
ernors to appoint representatives.
The state board of pardons has COR
pleted it's work, having granted 3
paroles, recommended 10 conditiona
pardons, eight deportations and on
final release. The board adopted
resolution that in the future all infol
nation on conditional pardons will b
refused until after the governor passe
on the case. The board selected 2
men for an honor camp to be starte
in Chelan county. The date Of thei
leaving is indefinite.
More than 100000 school children c
the state are to be enlisted in tn
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