White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-10-19


near BUDAPEST, has harvested an ex-
cellent quality of grain.
An unexpected run of silver salm-
on, following the unprecedented run
Of humpbacks in Puget Sound, this
year, will increase the fshermen's
receipts $2,500,O0O, the Washington
State Fisheries Board announced
lately
The Canadian Pacific Railway, just
recently, is believed to have made a
worlds record for grain trains. A
train of 1875 carloads of wheat, one
mile in length, was operated over the
cars contained $4,000 bushels of
wheat.
The British Columbia Government
contributed $45,O0O toward Japanese
relief work This sum will be used
entirely for the purchase of lumber,
thus making gift to the Japanese
Government of 1,750,OO0,OOO feet of
dimension lumber and 100000 shin.
giles.
After battling through one of the
worst storms in its history, the
giant liner "Leviatsan" lately reach
I'd Southampton in much battered
condition. The waves at one time
went over the top decks of the vessel.
The Federal Grand Jury at Valdez,
Alaska, in a report made recently.
declared that a large quantity of
narcotics is struggled to employees of
the salmon canning industry on Bris-
toll Bay, Southwestern Alaska. Chi
nese foremen and bosses handle mar
cotics, the report charges
Mrs. Glare Louise Carter, of Farm
ham, England, was found dead beside
discharged shotgun at her home.
She lost two sons, Of high rank, one
a colonel, the other a torpedoboat
commander, during the war, and she
mad never recovered from grief
Exports from the Hawaiian Is
lands to the United States, for the
fiscal year ending June, 1928, amount
cd to SOC, ,742, as compared with
$68,335. 073 during the preceding IL
months; while imports from the
United States to Hawaii amounted
to -6O,795,79 against $51,581 ,621 dur
ing the same period last year. Build
ing throughout the territory during
the first six months of the present
year almost doubled that of any
previous six months period in the
history of the country.
Thousands of girls in Germany,
who have been thrown out of work
by the closing of factories, shops and
stores, are now wishing to return to
domestic service, which occupation
they have been ignoring ever since
the war. Now they are willing to
work as cooks or housemaids for
about one dollars worth of marks a
month.
The Canadian Province of On
tario commenced developing it's n.y.
dro-electric power under public own
ership 10 years ago, with 10000
horsepower plant, at a rate Of ~
cents per kilowatt hour. Economic
management and low rates have in
creased business to such an extent
that a new plant, increasing the Ca
pacity to 100000 horsepower, is
now being built, and the rate charged
is cents per kilowatt hour
A wonderful tenor voice has been
discovered in New York, in the East
Side tenement district, belonging to
Mike Angelo Raginni, 20. For years
his beautiful voice has delighted the
neighborhood. He has sailed for
Italy, being financed by his neigh
bors, who have formed a stock com
pany, selling shares in it for $25
each. This will afford Raginni a
years expenses in a Roman finish
ing school, where it is hoped he will
| develop a voice that will equal if not
excel that of the immortal Caruso.
Princess Anastasia of Greece, wife
of Prince Christopher of Greece, is
dead. Before marrying the Prince
Princess Anastasia was the widow OF
the Tin Plate King" William b.
Leeds. She died in London and was
buried in New York. Her estate
of thirty millions Of dollars has been
divided among her relatives. Minor
requests were made to her son,
| William B. Leeds, and his wife, Prin.
cess Xenia of Russia, and to niece
Nancy Stuart Greene; the residue of
the estate was left in trust, the in.
come to be equally divided between
Margaret Stuart Greene, of Mont,
clair, N. j., sister, and Prince
| Christopher, at whose death the for
tasia's relatives in America.
The Lyons Chamber of Commerce
has appointed committee on silk
worm culture, and according to ad-
vices received by the Bankers Trust
Company from its French Information
Service, an effort is to be made to
develop production of raw silk in
North Africa and IndO- China The
object is to enable French silk man.