White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-07-27
WASHINGTON NEWS

WACI1llVGIUN NEWO
Federal grain inspectors are too
technical and will cause the farmers
of this state crop losses of 100000 I'M
less they are removed from office, says
e. L. French. state director of agricul-
ture. Mr.. French said that the fed
eral inspectors were grading all wheat
down and were endangering the sale
of the grain crop. He said he was
after Secretary Wallace to appoint
new inspectors
Stephen l. Miller, for five years dean
of the college of business administra-
tion at the University of Washington,
has resigned, effective August 1, to &C
cept the position of educational direc-
tor of the American Institute of Bank
ing.
Interest paid on outstanding state Sc
curities during 1921 and 1922 amounted
to more than $1,000 day, according to
reports compiled by George w. Lewis,
state budget officer. The total amount
of interest paid by the state in the two
years, or 73O days, was $736,3O4.41, his
records show More than one-fourth
of this amount was for interest on
highway bonds. The interest on high
way bonds amounted to approximately
$21S,0OO.
With $4,000 state funds available to
help assure its success. copies of the
premium list for the Washington State
fair at Yakima September 1922 have
just been mailed out to prospective ex-
hibitors. The prize lists for livestock,
agriculture and various lines of pro-
duction and industry are declared to
be extremely liberal this year. Total
cost of the fair is estimated at $4,000.
Reports indicate that the paving of
the balance of the unpaved section Of
the Pacific highway will be completed
September LIST and the stretch between
Kalama and Toledo will be opened to
traffic shortly after that. In the mean-
time the detour is in good shape and
thousands of cars are driving from the
South to the Puget Sound region and
then strike eastward across the state
Travel to Alaska is breaking all rec
ords this year and reservations for
July and August having been taken up.
a large number of northwest people
are planning to make the trip in Sep
TENDER, when the same rates are il
effect
Rapid progress is being made in the
construction work of the new mental
hospital for veterans now being built
at American Lake. 1t is expected that
this institution, costing $1,400,000, will
be ready for occupancy within three or
four months. Veterans suffering from
mental and nervous diseases now in
state or other contract hospitals will
be transferred to the American Lake
institution Immediately upon it's COM
pletion. One of the % buildings in
course of construction will be used for
light vocational training purposes for
the benefit of the patients.
r. H. Smith, age "a, a friend of Will
liam H. Cody buffalo Billy and one of
the few remaining stage drivers of the
picturesque frontier days, died re-
Gently at the Okanogan county poor
farm. He came to the Okanogan coun-
try in 1890 and since then has re-
NAMED resident. A few years ago
he took up a homestead on Palmer
mountain and lived there until ill
health forced him to leave the ranch
In the early days he made the cross
country trip of 100 miles between
Omaha, Neb., and Sacramento, Cal, II
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Thirty-fve sacks of onions from a
plot 107 by Sd feet is the record made
in an experiment on the A. r. WEIGH
farm, two miles east of Pasco. The
trial was made on ground reclaimed
from sagebrush two years ago on the
Inland Empire highway, near the
Snake river bridge.
Word has been received from Col.
fax that the LA La Palouser" is as.
sured for the season, having been en-
dorsed by a meeting of business men
recently. The dates being August 80
and September l. The Chautauqua
for 1924 was also endorsed and mum.
Der of those present at the meeting
volunteered to put 1t before the pub
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Plans to unite all Inland Empire
towns in a big Inland Empire day cele.
bration Tuesday, September 4, at the
Spokane Interstate Fair and Livestock
show were started recently by men,
bers of the Spokane Chamber of Com.
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