White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23
WASHINGTON ITEMS

John z. t1tzslmmonS ana Patrlck
Fitzgerald, pioneers of Garfield coun-
ty, died recently.
The funeral Of A. f. Hills, pioneer
newspaper man of Prosser, was held
Saturday from the Episcopal church.
Fred Williams, age "a, baggage man,
in the employ OF the union station at
Spokane, swallowed two ounces of
carbolic acid and died Sunday.
John r. Wilson. age As, member
of the lower house of the Washington
state legislature in the 1915 and 1917
sessions, died at Seattle Sunday.
DR.. Ernest H. Lindley, professor Of
philosophy and psychology at Indiana
university, will speak at the Whitman
county teachers institute in Pullman
April 2, and A.
The resignation OF DR.. H. T. Graves
as acting state commissioner of agri-
culture, is announced The governor
appointed e. Il. Benson of Tacoma
commissioner OF agriculture to take
office April /.
Eugene z. Erckenbrack a railroad
man, and widely known in shipping
circles, was arrested at Seattle Sun
day pending investigation of the
shooting to death of Miss Mabel Howe,
aged 10, maid at the Erckenbrack
home.
Reports received from the camp near
Pasco Of G. A. Hale, we'll known Walla
Walla sheepman, said that Is ewes
have died the last week of rabies.
Many lambs also have been killed.
Ewes and lambs are worth from 500
to $25 a pair
John Van Dell convicted Of first de-
gree murder for killing h. w. Olson,
state Industrial commissioner, in his
office in the capitol building February
/, was sentenced to life Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary. The court
denied motion for new trial
Thomas Shiflett, who lives back of
Wenatchee, butchered hog recently
that weighed 700 pounds dressed, the
lbs. each. At the prevailing prices of
ham and lard the hog will bring about
$40 There was about 1850 lbs of lard.
Governor Lister Monday signed the
fish code, the condensed milk bill,
and the bin permitting consolidation
OF rival street car systems passed by
the session of the legislature. The
governor permitted the capitol build
ing bill to become a law without his
signature.
Charles IL. Wagner, also known as
Charles Lorentz, who recently, armed
with q revolver, forced his way into
the office of Governor Ernest Lister
and compelled the executive to flee
for safety to an adjoining room, was
adjudged insane and committed to the
asylum at Steilacoonh
AT a recent meeting of citizens at
Republic a resolution WIS passed that
t!Scar AZ. -vr-tng Menace to live stock
| in Ferty county, the federal and state
governments should be petitioned to
assist in DISCRIMINATING coyotes in east
ern Washington and that the predatory
animal inspector of Pendleton, Ore.
the commissioner OF agriculture of
the state of Washington, and the com
missioner of Ferry county each be re-
quested to aid in the determination OF
coyotes on the stock ranges, and par
ticuarly in Ferry county.
The testimony Of the Rev. DR.. Mark
A. Matthews, civic reformer, as wit
ness for the prosecution was an impol-
tant feature of the so-called whisky
graft trial in the United States dis
trict court at Seattle Sunday. di-
rected acquittal of former Sheriff r
T. Hodge, just before court adjourned
was made Bilingsley said the $1,000
he had given to Hodges campaign
| fund in 1916, and $500 loaned to Hodge
subsequently had no connection with
any favors to him by Hodge, and that
Hodge and Billingsley had never even
discussed the liquor business.
There was filed in the office of the
county auditor at Wenatchee recent
ly deed recording the sale by the
Northern Pacific Railway company
to the Great Northern of a stretch
OF right of way beginning a short dis
lance this side of Cascade tunnel
and extending through the tunnel to
the other side of the mountain and
including the switchback down the
mountain side to Scenic The tract
comprises PA acres, the purchase
price for which is stated at 1921.
The stretch of right of way involved
is part of the land grant made to the
Northern Pacific by the federal gov
eminent.
Governor Lister has before him six
bills which he has not acted on. These
are the two appropriation bills, the fish
code, criminal syndicalism bill capitol
building bin and the measure prescrib-
ing federal standard for condensed
milk in the state Several measures
We're acted upon Saturday, four being
vetoed outright, one vetoed in part
and two being approved. The vetoed
bills are bills giving osteopaths and
chiropractors separate boards of ex-
amipers, bill validating certain illegal