White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-05-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Miss Mary Dawson lead her class
four years of the Pullman high school
course. s
edness campaign 5000 acres Of idle
land under the Tieton project were put
to crop this year.
Complying with request from Gov
ernor Miliken Of Maine, Acting Gov
ernor Hart recently telegraphed Presi-
dent Wilson urging national prohibit
ton during the war.
Nicholas Codd and j. F. Dealy re-
Gently closed deal for the purchase
of the A. G. Pryor farm of 800 acres on
Michigan prairie, in Adams county, Z
miles east of Hatton.
Bert Kuhn, acting for M. H. Hous
err purchased a mixed lot Of wheat,
Mansfield of Winona at the record
figure of $3.50 bushel, Monday. The
lot consisted of coppal, fife and tur-
key red. Mr.. Mansfield received a
check for $4,000 for the lot.
A 15-year-old boy named Caldwell
Monday night shot and killed man
named Short with shotgun in Una
tilla county, Oregon, two miles south
of the Umatilla-W alla Walla county
line and south from Lowden. A dis
pute arose over the using of gate
in going into property owned by
Short.
Fritz Sonneburn, German subject,
was arrested and interned at Seattle
Saturday by Federal officers. He has
the officers said, on account of fire.
quent incendiary utterances, but was
considered irresponsible until he wrote
letter to friend in Baltimore in
which he said 'If this country joins
the allies something is going to hap
pen on the Pacific coast"
The crop report for the Sunnyside
project for 1916 shows a yield $4,341 :
"a in value, the irrigated area being
70 900 acres. Under the Tieton, with
$4,000 acres in crop, the value of the
production last year was $1,102,536.
The land under cultivation in the val
ley is two and half times greater
than the aggregate of these projects,
and in addition there is much dry
land farming, and the ranging of stock
on the foothills.
The jury in the case of Thomas H.
Tracy, charged with the first degree
murder of Deputy Sheriff Jefferson
Beard at Everett November last,
brought in a verdict at Seattle of not
guilty. 1t is understood, though not
officially announced, that the case
against 70 other men who were on the
Verona during the battle, and all Of
whom are charged with first degree
murder, will be dropped Tracy and
the other 73 men have been in the
King county and Snohomish county
jails since the day of the fight.
Recent Deaths.
Palouse.-The funeral of Mrs. r. M
Palmer was held Saturday.
Edwall-Funeral services for Mrs
Bertha Springer were held Friday
Mrs Dorsey S. Baker, age rs, wild
ow of the late DR.. ID. S. Baker, who
built the famous rawhide railroad
from Wallula to Walla Walla, which
later became the O.-W r. & N, died
Sunday after long illness. She came
to Walla Walla in the early COS. Elk
Governor Miles G. Moore Of Walla
Malla is a son-in-law.
In a Commercial Way.
j. M. Olson has purchased the gro
Gerry store of w. A. Anderson at Hill
yard.
l Yeggmen blew the safe in the store
Of the Washington Brick, Lime
Sewer Pipe Co. at Clayton one night
last week.
i Louis F. Swift, proprietor of Swift's
pharmacy and the Broadway pharma
cy Seattle, has purchased the De Luxe
drug store.
The Nicholson grocery at Pomeroy
was damaged by smoke and water last
week in a fire at that place, which
broke out in the back room.
II. S. Clark, formerly of Auburn, has
closed a deal whereby he becomes the
owner of the Pioneer pharmacy al
Bremerton, buying out j. G. Wolfe.
Fred R. Burdette, who recently sold
| his general store at Toroda, has pur
chased the merchandise business OF
the Karamin Lumber Co. at Karamin
Moore Bros. of Harrington have pur
chased the stock of the Bluestem Mer
camille Co. at Bluestem. r. e. Tran
tum will be in charge of the business
BY the timely arrival of the town
marshal, burglars who were in the act
of entering the store of the Lacrosse
Hardware & Implement Co. at Lacrosse
we're frightened away.
William Malsch, general merchant at
Milan, has reported to the sheriff that
his store was robbed last week of 5000
He was later placed under arrest on o
charge of bootlegging.
e. H. Thompson Of Spokane has pur
chased the property of Mrs. Fora Hun
ziker at Deer Park, on which he will
erect two-story brick building in
which he will operate retail and
wholesale cigar factory.
e. E. Greiver of Spokane has pur.
chased the general merchandise bust
ness of the Pool Mercantile Co. at