White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-12-14
Worlds News

legislature of Alberta.
The Anglo Persian Oil Company,
Of the Argentina, has ceased explor-
ing for oil and has withdrawn from
the field, after expending $5,0OO,O0O.
There was shipped lately from Lon
don to the United States one million,
twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred
and sxty-four pounds In gold. Four
hundred and eighty thousand pounds
to Kuhn, Loeb and Co., and five
hundred and eighty-four thousand,
seven hundred and sixty-four pounds
to j. P. Morgan and Company.
During fire at the Petroleum Ex-
Diego, recently, one hundred thou
sand gallons Of gasoline was burned.
The gasoline was to have been
shipped to Kobe, Japan, for use in
reconstruction in the devast tie d
areas of that country.
Said to be the longest cable in the
world, the new Franco American
cable was recently safely landed at
Havre, France, by the cable steam
ship stephan
Angel Clemens, a carpenter living
near Cobalt, Ontario, found silver
nugget weighing 5000 pounds, on the
shores Of the Montreal river. The
nugget is worth more than $4,000
The Philippine Islands were re-
Gently visited by terrific typhoon
in which many persons were drowned
in Cagayan Valley, in northern Lu-
zon. Numerous dwellings were car
ried away by the flood waters, ami
mails were drowned and crops suf-
fered considerable damage.
On November 26th fourteen and a
half inches of snow fell in Montreal,
constituting record for SO years.
Branches Of trees were broken, cleo
trio light and telephone wires were
snapped and traffic badly hampered.
; Mrs. Lilly May Wittig, Of Balti-
more, is the happy mother of quad
ruplets-three girls and one boy. The
boy weighed pounds and the COM
bined weight Of the babies was Is
pounds and thirteen ounces. Mrs.
Wittig now has twelve children. Med
ical records show that quadruplets
are born approximately once in $780,
900 births.
Survivors of the Inflated freighter
Shinkoku Maru were landed recent
ly at Cordova, Alaska, by the tug
Humaconna. One member of the
crew lost his life while attempting to
swim ashore with q lifeline, when
he saw the vessel on the rocks. He
: seas, and his body lost in the icy
: waters.
The top hat first made its public
:, appearance In its modern form, II
London. in 1877 Its wearer was ,JohI
Hetherington. a Strand haberdasher
. and the unwonted sight he presented
= created such a turmoil on the stree
that he was charged with breach O.
the peace and melting to riot, fol
= which he was bound over to keel
y the peace In the sum of five hundred
pounds.
On account of the exclusion law
Of the United States, it has been an
nounced at Stockholm, that direc
line of steamships-the first of tn
kind from any Scandinavian country
is soon to be established by the
:. Swedish American line of steamships
y between Stockholm and Canada, K
D call first at Halifax, thence to New
York.
l. The German courts are beint
h swamped by divorce suits, filed b.
% German school teachers, as result
Ia of a government order that all mar
l., ried officials must be dismissed as I
part of the sweeping reduction II
,. government machinery in the new
:. economy program. A number of tn
married women teachers prefer thei
:, Jobs to matrimony - hence the di
q vorce suits.
"a The Engineering and Mining jour
n nal Press in it's current issue says:
= The "non-ferrous metal market
{. have generally been quiet. Cope
II prices continue to show improvement
n with consumers manifesting create
a interest in the market. The chang
v in the trend of the stock market ant
"a belief In the soundness of indus
y. trial activity may have had some
thing to do with this situation.
The lead market has remaine
steady. showing no tendency to NOV
in either direction. The market 70
slab zinc Is practically unchanged.
70 On Sletringoen, a rocky island, nea
~ Titren, the largest lighthouse alon
e. the Norwegian coast, has been re
q Gently erected. 1t was used for tn
n first time on October LIST. The mai
Is lantern has an intensity of 465,00
Il normal candle power and flashes tw
" beams in quick succession every fiji
teen seconds. There are some dar
% gerous rocks In the vicinity, whicl
10 supplementary light Eliminates Il
d foggy weather a powerful siren give
4 necessary warning.
= Something new In the way Of tele
!, phone service In the province ha
been instituted by the Manitob
~ Governmental telephone system, witt
g the Inauguration of "phonogram
, calls, which will be similar to tn
night letters of the telegraph CON
= panies. The "phonogram" message
= will be delivered to local operator
. and transmitted by them to lon