White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS

| recently in the W1lDur SCHOOL,
The measles epidemic is assuming
alarming proportions at Wenatchee.
w. H. Bailey, republican, assistant
state fire warden since 1910, has
been dismissed.
The funeral of T. S. Phillips, vel
known in the Yakima valley, was helt
at Mabton Saturday.
Clyde Estes recently bought from
F. w. Brown his 642-acre farm neal
Walla Walla, paying $22,S20.
A bill to give landlords lien OF
property of tenants for unpaid office
rent is proposed in the legislature.
Frank Lepley, farmer of Hatton
has purchased 1855 acres Of Montana
land, with cattle and machinery, fol
$65,000.
During the hunting season, which
began September Is and ended Jan
IA, 10 hunters met violent deaths in
the state.
A contract has been let for $12,
900 bridge across the Yakima river
below Richland to replace the wood
en- structure.
Mrs. Dolly C. Fisher, who was born
in Kentucky in $780, and crossed the
plains in 1854 to Oregon, died re.
Gently at Charleston.
Yakima valley growers and shippers
have about 1900 carloads Of apples
in cold storage and common storage,
according to estimates by dealers
Troop A, Ellensburg, provisional
cavalry, has been accepted by the
war department as a unit of the ma
tional guard of the United States
William Ferry died at Spokane Sat.
urday He had for the last six years
been general shop foreman for the
| O.-W. r. & N. there and at Starbuck
George Hollway aged 81, resi-
dent of Spokane since 1881 and a
member Of the Spokane police depart.
ment for more than 20 years, died
Sunday.
The II county offices in Yakima
county were conducted at saving
of more than $4,000 for 1916 over the
cost of conducting the same offices
in 1916
A $4,000 brick chapter house will
be constructed soon by Delta Iota
chapter of Sigma NJ fraternity on
the lots owned by the fraternity on
Campus at Pullman
Mrs. Deborah Frost of Everett, en-
ployed as a cook at the Apex mine
near Skykomish, in the Cascades
is thought to have persisted in a
snowslide in Money canyon recently
After being i'll only a short time
with heart trouble, l. B. Miller, age
SO, died recently at his home near
Pomeroy. He was born in western
Oregon.
Miss Minnie M. Worthen, who will
graduate this year from the state
college, has been appointed secretary
treasurer of the intercollegiate Pre-
hibition association of the state 0
Washington.
Three carloads of onions were sol,
recently by Wapato rancher, JAP
anese. One car was purchased TO
$40 ton and the other two at 81
per ton. The grower received $500
for the three carloads.
The supreme court, reversing tn
Thurston county superior court i
. each instance, upholds the constitl
tionality of the state oil inspectio
act, and knocked out the validity c
reciprocal demurrage rules promu
gated by the public service commits
sion.
Grandma" White celebrated he
95th birthday last week at the HON
of her granddaughter, Mrs. c. N
;, Van Dyke at Toppenish. The latter
t mother Mrs. Anna Gribble, who
II, was present. Mrs. White has 2
: great grandchildren and five grea
great-grandchildre living.
Secretary of the Treasury Meade
has written to Governor Lister asl
ing him to place before the legisli
ture for passage an act making fet
eral farm loan bonds lawful inves
ments in Washington state. Will
out law to this effect the bond
will be invalid and the federal ao
imperative.
y Only clergymen, priests and rabbits
: actually in charge of congregations
{ would be permitted to have liquor |
] their possession under the terms {
!, the proposed bone dry" measur
now before the legislature. The bi
would permit wholesale and reta
. druggists and manufacturing chen
q lists to handle alcohol only when gi'
! en- license after public hearing, an
t would increase the punishment fo
a violation.
State CONNIE rcial News.
William Leaf, Port Angeles grocer
reported assigned.
: Bucoda Mercantile Co. succeede
!. j. w. Gilbert, Bucoda.
:. Howard & Engle, Tenino grocer.
reported assigned.