White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-02-08

were recorded. OF the births, 1889
were males and 4,159- females, and
among them were 80 sets Of twins.
HONOLULU, II H. - Charles j..
Kraebel, assistant territorial forester
of Hawaii, will leave here en- route to
Glacier National Park, Montana, Of
which he is to become superintendent.
He formerly was of Portland, Ore.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.-Twenty,
nine million pounds of halibut were
landed at this port during the past
year, figures for December being still
incomplete This is considerably
in excess of the previous year. Sew
eral large shipments went to Chicago
and other Middle-W Western states. 49,
TORONTO irectorssof the Rock
efeller Foundation at their December
meeting appropriated s1,1OO,000 for
the University of Toronto Medical
School and 100000 for the Medical
School Of the University Of Alberta.
The donations were made in line with
previous pledges.
MOSCOW funeral service for
the late Premier Lenine of Russia
was solemn spectacle. Thousands
Of villagers from nearby and distant
places trudged to the square where
the House Of Unions is situated and
where the body lay in state The
temperature was far below zero, and
many scantily clad among the pill
grims must have suffered terribly
from the cold.
SONORA, CALIFORNIA. Ma
! rian Longfellow Morris, poet, lectur-
er, translator, charter member Of the
Daughters OF the American Revolu
tion and a niece of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, died recently at Shawmut
Tuolumne County. She passed away
at the home of her son, Henry Wads-
worth Morris, with whom she had rev
sided for several years. Mrs. Morrfa
was born in Portland, Me-, rs years
ago.
HALIBUT COVE. ALAsKA.-Hali-
but Cove is the greatest herring
ground in the world. Out Of a Ia
goon mile long and a half a mile
deep, 22.0eo barrels of herring were
taken during the season. The fish
rush into the lagoon in billions early
in the winter to escape from whales,
seals and sea lions. The lagoon is
about forty fathoms Deep and is
probably the crater of a more or less
extinct volcano. Occasionally gill
METERS bring up herring from the
bottom cooked so thoroughly that the
| flesh drops off the bones.
| AUGSBURG, BAVARIA. = st. vi.
rich's church clock marks time NO
longer, and Its historic chimes no more
sound the hours for the old city. Mes.
ner, the sacristan, has struck. He waa
paid only 100000 paper marks from
April to September for his services.
AS he had to climb 1853 steps daily to
keep the clock wound up, he said that
his wages fell short of buying the
shoe soles he wore out on the rough
old stone steps to the belfry. So he
quit after so years. service to search
for more profitable employment.
ST. PAUL. - The Great Northern
Railway earned by 4Aeb net opera
ting income on the value Of their
property in 1923, according to re.
port issued by Ralph Budd, president.
The report also showed that 1928
taxes were $9,20o,00O, as compared
with $4,276,89S in 1918.
WASHINGTON, D. G. - Professor
Arthur H. Blanchard, a nationally
known authority on highway trans
portation and highways, has accepted
appointment as member Of the Re
search Council of the National Trans
portation Institute.
Professor Blanchard has won wide
recognition as an educator and as q
highway engineer. He Is connected
with the department of civil engineer
ing Of the University of of Michigan
as professor Of highway engineering
and highway transport. He ia presi.
dent of the National Highway Traffic
Association and president of the Am
erican Road Builders Association.
PEKING.-The extent to which the
poppy, for the manufacture Of opium,
is being cultivated In the province of
Kansu is illustrated by the expert
ences of travellers who try to hire
carts, the only mode Of travel In some
portions Of the province. Owing to
the fact that practically all carriers
were engaged. In the transportation OF
opium, the price demanded per day
for cart varied from one tall
(about so cents) II the carter were
permitted to carry opium at the same
time, to $4S Chinese currency ian,
proximately $24) If objection were
raised to this arrangement. In many
towns 1T was. said practically all Of
the inhabitants have reverted to the
use OF the drug, and the cultivation
of the poppy is carried on more in.
tensively than ever before.
LONDON.-The efforts OF Scotland
Yard authorities to stamp out Illicit
traffic in narcotics are proving sue
oessful It was announced during the
course Of case at Marlborough POI
lice court that, thanks to the strenu-
Gus police campaign, the traffic is be-
ing suppressed. Many captures OF
"traffickers" have recently been made