White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-11-30
Washington News

"A paid department Of four men will
be employed without delay.
The Longview School was present
ed with beautiful silk flag, the
gift of the Longview Service Club,
as part of the Armistice Day OBJ
servance. Mrs. Ruth Karr McKeen,
president of the club, made the pre-
sentation.
Adjoining the sawmill of the Wal
ton Lumber Company, at Everett,
land is being cleared for a veneer
plant to cost in the neighborhood of
100000, and to employ two shifts
Of 120 men each. 1t will be operated
by the Walton Veneer Company.
The Northwestern Camp Fire Girls
recently christened their new ship
home, naming it "Camaraderie."
The last survivor of General Gus
ter's men-Captain Charles Norman
Hogan-died recently at the family
residence, in Seattle. In 1918, there
were four of Clusters men still alive,
two in Los Angeles and two in Sc
attic. In 1919 the two Los Angeles
men died, and the next. year one OF
the two in Seattle died, leaving
Captain Hogan the last of the historic
group of men who fought with Gen
eral Custer.
The contract price for an order OF
cars just placed by the Union Pa
cific system, for 3,O57 new refriger
ator cars, to cost $9,O00,000, will
mean an expenditure of approximate
ly $1,000,000 for Pacific Northwest
lumber, at least, so said w. H. Olin,
recently, assistant general freight
and passenger agent.
According to Bethesda Beals Blu
chanan, the executive secretary OF
the Washington tuberculosis Asso-
citation, the fight against tuberculosis
is winning out. In 1911 there were
1910 deaths from the disease, at the
rate of 1OS per 100000 population.
Last year the rate was only II per
100000 population. tuberculosis is
still the leader as cause of death
among communicable diseases.
During the next few months, Is
of the wooden hulls, which have been
lying idle in Lake Union since the
termination of the World War, are
to be consigned to the flames. The
vessels will be lowed to a sandspit
at Richmond Beach, five at a time,
and they will be burned for the pipe
and metal in the hulls. The newly
organized Sea Salvage and Wrecking
Company, Of Seattle, capitalized for
$4,000 has purchased the vessels
from the Equitable Transportation
Company of San Francisco, repre-
scented in Seattle by R. G. Blake. The
large quantities of pipe and metals
salvaged will be sold. BY the liber
al use Of chemicals, the wood of the
bulls will be destroyed, even the
water-soaked timbers in the bottoms
of the vessels Before the vessels
are set on fire the Lighthouses will
be removed and will be available for
use as dwellings, houseboats and
clubhouses. They are very roomy
and can be easily converted into
dwellings.
The supreme court of the United
States has just declared the state
allan land law constitutional. This
or leasing land.
Members of the faculty at the
University of Washington have in
augurated campaign to collect
books for the library Of the Imperial
University Of Tokyo, which was de-
stroyed in the recent fire and earth.
quake. The library there formerly
contained 100000 volumes, all OF
which were burned.
Otto H. Kahn, New York banker,
declared that conditions in Europe
are slowly on the asceldency, in a
speech at Wesleyan University. He
recently returned from an investiga
ton tour in Europe.
Warren Vickery, of Boise, junior
in the department of business admin
istration Of the college of letters and
science at the University, has been
elected business manager Of the
mems glee club for the coming year.
Mr.. Vickery, who has been a member
Of the club for several years, will
have charge of arrangements for the
annual tour. In the election he was
opposed by Ray Allumbaugh, also of
Boise.
According to letter received re-
Gently by Professor Trevor Kincaid,
of the University of Washington,
from DR.. L. o. Howard, head of the
United States Bureau of Entomology,
natural enemy Of the earwig has
been discovered. 1t is the Technid
fly, which lays eggs on the body of
the earwig, the young flies hatch and
destroy the body of the earwig. Some
specimens of the fly will be sent to
Professor Kincaid as soon as re.
cetved at the bureau offices in Wash.
ington, and the flies will be liberated
next spring in some favorable loca-
ton, In order to start the offensive
against the earwig.
II you want to hear the piano
really ragged, says Bob DUNN in
Farm and Firesides, hear Vincent
Lopez and his orchestra play "Glor.
ia" and Raging the Scale" Lopez
Is Spanish. He would have been
priest If his father had had his way