White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-12-07
Washington News
is rumored that the Douglas Fir

1t is rumored that the Douglas Fir
Exploitation and Export Company
the largest lumber marketing organ
ization on the Pacific Coast-will be
transferred from San Francisco to
Puget Sound.
W. ]. Dudley of Yakima led with
nearly so per cent of the votes cast
for the municipal primary election
for mayor. In the final election, De-
cember 3, Dudley will be opposed by
Rovig.
Elmer Heindobler. 20 years old, a
resident of Wasf1ougaI, died there re-
Gently as result of being struck on
the head by falling timber as he
worked at the bottom of 40-foot
well.
West Kelso, which lies to the west
side Of the Cowlitz River between
Kelso's principal business district
and Longview, is rapidly developing
as a business center, and building
construction on all the streets is
active.
Recently, the shipping board voted
by resolution to accept the Seattle
Port Commissions offer of 100000
for the Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding
and dock site, after three-year fight
of a municipality with private in.
terests.
Under the ordinance as now
amended all public dance halls in
Seattle must close at 1880 A. M.
, Sunday and on all week days at the
, same hour prohibiting Sunday dane
ing. This ordinance goes into effect
80 days after it is signed by the
mayor.
Seattle's waterborne commerce has
increased more than $124,OOO,O 900 dur
, ing the first ten months Of this
year, as compared with the figures
3 for 1922. Shipping men, importers
1 and exporters say that a new pros
3 perity is sweeping ahead that will
! smash all previous records on the
: Pacific.
. The Association of Pacific Fisheries
? held their annual meeting in Seattle
1 last week. A stand was taken favor
4 ing the conservation of Alaska's fish
l. cries resources. Frank e. Gorrell,
e secretary of the National Gamers
= Association, made the principal ad-
/. dress at the meeting.
4 AS a result of conference between
Adjutant-General Maurice Thompson
i and members of the Commercial
IS Club, Lions, Kiwanis and other or
It CARNATIONS, the three Yakima Ma
i tional Guard companies will be re-
4 cruited to full strength through the
i, aid Of the various clubs.
Is The Washington Irrigation & De-
velopment Company has applied to
a the Federal Power Commission for a
" permit to build a power dam on
Priest River that If granted will ul
y timately mean an expenditure of ap
r. proximately s1O0,OOO,O0O in the state
The petitioners are believed to be a
subsidiary of the General Electric
:. Company
10 "a University of Thousand
6 Years." Is the tiHe of an illustrated
article on the University of Wash
:, ngton, in the current number of The
&c Outlook, by William Chaplin Collins
Seattle writer. The article tells how
the University is being built, bott
Intellectually and physically, on plans
capable Of expansion to meet all the
needs Of the future. 1t appears witt
an article on Seattle, by Sherman
- Rogers, industrial correspondent fol
The Outlook. The issue is entitled
Northwest Number" of the maya
Ao zine.
~ The Washington Superb oWel
~ League has been formed to initiate
municipal ownership power bill tt
- be voted on next year. Officers elect
~ ed were president, Fred ]. Chamber
" lain, representing the state grange
~ secretary Ralph d. Nichols, former
- legislator; treasurer, Carl Ewald
III and vice-president, j. N. Belanger
as representing labor interests; HONEY
u T. Bone, Tacoma legislator, and Oil
yer T. Erickson Charles H. Heigh
e, ton, James w. Bryan, George B
ri Lamping and others were named OF
of the advisory committee.
III George G.. Carson, who brough
:" suit two years ago against the Amer
90 lean Smelling G Refining Company
~ claiming infringement of patents, il
!" loser in the case, according to de
le cision in federal court The cour
ae held that the furnace used by the
sy smelter is not an infringement o.
* Carson's patents, but embodies the
Us principle of the Siemens patents.
- "At selling prices ranging from
10 $3.50 to $9.40 per case, depending
on the quality of fish, the Alask,
"a pack estimates of 100000 casel
H. represents revenue of more thar
" $25,000,000," stated the report
30 This represents an increase o
III 100000 cases over the 1922 Alaska
e. pack. The number of salmon packed
u in the Puget Sound district is esti
p mated at 100000 cases or nearly
10 double that of 1922. The British Co
ID lumbia pack is estimated at $4,000
cases. another increase over las
year. The Columbia River distric
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