White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-12-26
Washington News
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halted. The Grey Jensen process It.
self cost $4,000 to install, while the
other improvements will come to $685.
900. The new plant is expected to
save $685. day in operating expenses,
or s93, 440 agar. Geret vandergriend,
George Bender, George Parberry, and
w. H. Jackman, all Of -1ynden, were
nominated for the three-year trustee
terms. Nominations for the two-year
term were Walter Jensen, Ferndale;
and Fred G. Reeves, Blaine.
TACOMA. = Thomas Comfort, AZ
year-old son of A. B. Comfort we'll
known attorney, was electrocuted re-
Gently while playing with an electric
light socket hanging above his bed.
1t is believed he placed one hand on
the globe socket and the other either
on the radiator or the side Of his bed,
establishing circuit and causing al
most instant death.
misunderstanding conspiracy to
violate the national prohibition act,
Ralph Hendricks was sentenced to a
year and day in the Mcneil Island
penitentiary recently by Federal
Judge e. e. Cushman. Hendricks
with Carl Sherer, was captured in a
boat on Puget Sound by coast guard
cutter last August after Sherer had
been wounded by gunfire from the
government craft. The officers seized
1858 quarts of whisky, IL quarts of
gin, and 1,200 pints of beer. Sherer
has pleaded not guilty and is to be
tried soon.
YAKIMA.-It will take two or three
years and nearly million dollars to
complete the Chinook Pass Road
across the Cascade Mountains, James
Allen, state highway commissioner,
said here recently after coming from
the state good roads meeting in We
natchee to inspect the Ellensburg
Canyon Road. With various other
work planned, the road budget to be
presented to the legislature will be
fully million dollars, he said.
EVERETT. Assurance that King
County's portion of the Stevens Pass
Highway will be completed the mid
die of July was given to committee
from Everett that waited on the King
County commissioners recently. On
that assurance another committee
here will at once raise $500 as Ev-
erett's quota to have the new road
over the Cascades mapped in the
tourist guide issued by the National
Parks Highway Association.
MISUNDERSTANDING community,
across Lake Washington, was visited
by its second disastrous fire within a
month when flames destroyed the
Henry Fisher cannery, just outside
the city limits, with a $4,000 loss.
The fire was of unknown origin. It
broke out at 1880 P. NJ. and almost
the entire population of kirkland
turned out to aid the flre-fghters.
Only night Waterman is on duty
during the winter months, but the
cannery has employed 200 persons
for the past three years Of it's opera
ton.
PUYALLUP. - Debates have been
arranged between Puyallup, Sumner
and Buckley. The debate question
this year is: Resolved, That the
Philippines should be granted immedi-
ate independence" Buckeyes affirm
alive team is composed of Edward
Bryant, Kathleen McManus and Jessie
Owens; negative, Margaret White,
Florence Hurd and William schodde.
sUNNYSIDE.-Struck by an auto
mobile while riding along the Yakima
Highway on bicycle. Joe Morgan,
II, Of Sunnyside, was thrown into the
ditch and killed. The car was driven
by a former schoolmate, Lee Kruegar,
and the tragedy occurred when Joe
lost control Of his bicycle as he car
ried a bundle in each arm. He was
taken to the hospital, but died with
out regaining consciousness.
CHEHALIS. &C. p. Fulton, agent
at the Chehalts Union Depot, is in re-
ceipt of $13 in conscience money"
which Centralia young man sent to
him to reimburse the rail lines oper-
ating out of here for trips on trains
where the sender had stolen occasion
al rides.
WENATCHEE. - Sheep and cattle
valued at s45,000, totaling 4,317 head,
were lost, killed accidentally or killed
by predatory animals in Wenatchse
National Forest this year, according
to report issued by Supervisor A. H.
Sylvester. Bears killed 1,163 sheep,
the report states. Sylvester has rec
commended that bears be taken out of
the game animal class, and put into
the predatory class and shot on sight.
Bears have been protected for four
or five years, and the increase in num-
Der in the Wenatchee forest has been
very great. The 1922 estimate was
200; 1923, $50; 1924, 800. Value of
sheep killed by bears this year is $12,-
900.
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