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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
ELECTION DINNER AT HOTEL

Because it was believed that the
holding of the Wom ans Club din
ner at Liberty hall on the evening
of November 4th might interfere
with the counting Of the ballots,
the Club has decided to give the
dinner in the dining room of the
Commercial hotel, Mrs. H. E. Rob-
inson having generously consented
to the Clubs use of the diningroom
that evening
The Cub extends general invi-
tation to the public to make the
affair a success, as the proceeds
are to 90 to the free public library.
An invitation is also extended to
everyone to visit the library at the
Luhmann store on Saturday after
moons to look over the list OF books
available. "The Rover" a sea
story by joseph Conrad and some
Of the Twin" series for children
stories Of children from different
land-are included in this list of
books.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
RULING SAYS WENATCHEE
SOUTHERN may BUILD

The Interstate Commerce CON-
mission this week denied the petit
ton of the Great Northern railroad
for a rehearing on the application
of the Wenatchee Southern railroad
to build line from Wenatchee to
connection with the O. R & N.
near Kennewick. The commission
about two months ago granted the
application of the Wenatchee
Southern for a certificate of neces-
sity to build this road. but the case
has been held up since that time by
the petition of the Great Northern
for the rehearing.
1t is expected that the directors
of the Wenatchee Southern will
soon make known their plan for
financing the road and that actual
construction will be under way
within the next three months. The
commissions order granting the
certificate of necessity contained a
provision that work must be start
ed shortly after January l, 1925,
and the road completed within that
year. The plans of the directors
contemplate the building of a new
line from Wenatehee to Beverly to
connect up with the Beverly-Han
ford branch of the Milwaukee,
which is to be taken over under a
lease, and the building Of a new
link from Hanford to connect up
with the O. r & N. between Rich
land and Kennewick.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
TALKS Oh goNE BILL

j. D Ross. superintendent of
the municipal lighting system of
Seattle. substituting for Homer T.
Bone. author of the so-called "Bona
Bill" who was unable to attend,
addressud the crowd at Liberty hall
Thursday evening on tie virtues Of
the bill. which will be on the ballot
in the November election as Initia.
tive Measure No. So.
Mr.. Ross severely criticised the
privately owned power companies
and contended that the passage of
the Bone Bill, permitting munich
palities to sell their "juice" out
side of their boundaries, would
create a desirable competition that
he believed would be beneficial to
the public at large. He expressed
himself as being opposed to state
control and said that while it was
possible there would be no direct
benefit to this valley, he believed
the passage of the bill would event.
ually bring about q reduction in
| the present rates here.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
TAKE S REDUCED

Benton county taxes for tho year
1925 will be approximately $50,000
less than in 1924, according to Ben
F. Rupert, deputy county assessor.
Figures were presented to show that
taxes, state, county and city have
been reduced, slowly but surely, dur
ing the last several years.
The levy for city taxes for 1925
will be IA mills, mill decrease
from last year. State and county
taxes combined will be 2 mills less
than last year. The levy in School
District No. Is will remain the same.
Doue to the 3-mill levy in Commits
sioner DeBow's road district the levy
will be ~ mills this year against
Al mills last year. In Benton City
there will be 10-mill reduction this
year. A 2-mill reduction in state
and county taxes, mill in roads and
mills in school. White Bluffs shows
a total reduction of mills and Han
ford of mill. Kennewick has an
8-mill reduction for the coming year.
-Prosser Record-Bulletin.
Joe Schuster shipped a car of
live hogs to Snohonaish on Thursday
morning.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
STATE PLANS VANTAGE
FERRY BRIDGE IN 1927

Construction of the Vantage Ferry
bridge over the Columbia River or
the North Central Highway, east ol
Ellensburg, where the state, by sui,
filed last week, is now seeking tc
enjoin the construction of a private
toll bridge, is included in the states
highway and bridge program for the
biennium 1928, Highway Engineer
James Allen said:
A tentative program for road and
bridge construction. upon which fed
eral aid would be applicable, has been
worked out tin cooperation with the
United States Bureau of Roads,
covering the ten-year period from
1925 to 1885. Federal aid money
would be matched, dollar for dollar,
both on construction of the Vantage
Ferry bridge and on other improve
ments on this shortcut route be-
tween Ellensburg and Spokane, to the
total of $4,000 of federal money.
The cost of the bridge, to be one
Of the largest in the state, is esti-
mated at between 100000 and $780,
600, according to Engineer Allen.
To obtain federal aid, either for the
bridge or for the roads Tearing to
it, the design and construction must
be up to the standards adopted by
the state and approved by the. Bureau
of Roads. Not only would federal
aid for the North Central Highway,
officially State Road No. 7, be for
feited in event of operation of toll
bridge but even if later taken over
by the state no federal money could
be obtained unless the bridge met
the required standards, and this might
entail partial reconstruction or an
entirely new bridge.
The ferry. the Kitty Grant, being
operated at Vantage Ferry by Kitti-
tas and Grant counties jointly, is one
of the best in the state, according
to Engineer Allen, giving good SER
vice and paying revenue to the coun-
ties. He expressed belief that there
is no such pressing need of a bridge
at Vantage Ferry as to justify its
construction as a private toll bridge
or otherwise interfere with the states
program and deprive the state of a
great amount of federal aid money.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Brisco return
ed last Friday evening from several
weeks visit with friends on the
Coast. They made the trip in their
car.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
BRIDGE AT JOURNEYS END

A delightful afternoon was en-
ioyed by the members Of the White
Bluffs Bridge club when Mrs. H.
0. Canedy was their hostess at her
home, journeys End, Thursday, Oc-
tober l6. A two course luncheon was
served at o'clock amid a beautiful
setting produced by the arrangement
of autumn leaves of red and yellow
with place cards and score cards
of the same shades as the foliage.
Score honors went to Mrs. I. c.
Hawley. high; Mrs. Kirby, low. Mrs.
E. r. Griner of Hanford will enter
tain the club at her home on Octo-
ber 80.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24

Mrs Opal Gregory, who has teen
in Seattle for the past month. has
assumed charge of beauty parlor
in that city and will move her
household goods and children over
there in the near future.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24

Fred Gilhuly drove to Seattle
Thursday morning, having as his
passengers four of the high school
pupils. Lois Morford. Rose Wheel.
er, Alvin Barge and Robert Suth.
erland, and their chaperone, MISS
Betty Jackson, who are attending
the high school conference at the
state university this week. The
party expected to return Sunday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
NOTICE TO pHEAsAnTs

Sunday, October 26 is the first
open date for the season for phea-
SAINT and partridge shooting in Ben
ton County. There are only open
days this year on these birds. These
dates are October rs and 20 and
November 2, S, 9, IL, Is and Is.
The bag limit is mixed bag of 8
birds per day but not more than 3
phesants in any one day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
Ia TOILETTE SPEAKER HERE

Charles M. Baxter, speaker for the
LaF Gillette Wheeler ticket was greet
ed by full house at Liberty hall
when he arrived for his speech Mon
day evening. The injecting opened
with a song "It amt goin to rain
no more" and thi swas followed
by the showing OF film Ieulogizing
LaFollette and holding those opposed
to his policies up to ridicule. Mr..
Baxter spoke for over two hours,
covering almost every phase of the
Independent ticket and his speech
generally pleased his audience.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
IN-B-TWEEN

Jesse Brown left Monday morn.
ing for Wenstchee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Grimm of
Yakima were dinner guests at the
Grell home on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. De Veuve
spent few days at their Bonne
Terre orchard last week. coming
over on Friday and leaving Sunday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hainline. who have
heen living on the Luddington
Bros. place. have moved into the
Grandpa Snyder house for the win
ter.
The border vidette., 1924-01-05
Bureau Federation, and one OF
the foremost authorities on farm.

Bureau Federation, and one Of
the foremost authorizes on farm.
ers' organizations and CO oper
alive marketing in the country,
and F.. j. Hagenbarth. president
of the American Wool Growers
association and of the Western
Tariff association, which is work
ing for tariff protection for agri-
cultural and livestock products
of the state.
Other speakers will include J.
Dabney Day and r. M. Andrews
prominent California bankers;
H. P. Anewalt, general freight
agent Of the Santa Fe: Leslie B.
Henry, investment expert and
former Federal Reserve official;
and George e. Farrand, promin
emily identified with Aaron Sa
piro in the organization of the
large co operative marketing as
sociations of the Pacific coast.
The street luncheon near the
Columbia Theater in Phoenix
where the sessions will be held,
will be in honor of all citizens of
the state attending the conven.
ton. Tt will be accompanied by
q MUSICAL program, and will be
shot" by motion picture camera.
men for distribution throughout
the country.
The border vidette., 1924-01-05
ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS

Phoenix, Jan. "A great free
street lunch. rendered to the
visitors by business men of
Phoenix, will be one of the high
spots of the annual convention
cf the Arizona Industrial Con
gress, TO be held at the capital
January 10th. A general invita-
tion TO all farmers, stockmen,
business men, and citizens in
general is issued by the organ,
iZation.
The principal speakers at the
state meeting will be Walton
Peteet, national director of mark.
citing for the American Farm
The border vidette., 1924-01-05
RESOLUTION AND ORDER No..

A Resolution and Order for
the purpose of calling and hold
ing a special election on the
proposition of incurring an in
debtedness of the city of No.
gales for more than 4% of the
The border vidette., 1924-01-05
THE couNTRY's RAILROADS.
Review for 1923 and Forecast for
1924 by President SppouIe.

In general business this has
been a good year and the same
general prosperity should con
tinue through 1924. The rail
roads have been called upon to
move the greatest volume Of
business in the history OF the
country, and the public are in
accord upon the fact that it has
been moved by the railroads in
a way that responds to the bust
ness wants of the people for fair
despatch.
When the railroads earn money
by their services, it is distribut-
ed back again among the people
in wages and in payment for
rolling stock, materials for up
keep and expansion and for gen
eral supplies. The railroads in
1923 have devoted immense
sums, amounting to some one
thousand and three hundred mil
lions of dollars, to buying of To-
comotives, passenger train cars,
freight train cars, railway and
other machinery, shops and shop
tools. These large expenditures
have played an important part
/ in the prosperity of the country,
for they affect every line of
business and every kind of pro-
duction.
If the railroads were only per-
mitted to do their work in con-
fdence thatthey could go ahead
in business like way without
new and unknown legislation in
tended to change the basis for
their doing business, that condi-
tion of confidence would proba-
bly, be the greatest aid to the
continuance of prosperity.
Every man in business knows
that if the rules under which he
does business are subject to
change. or threat of change, he
seeks safety first by taking no
chances. Yet the railroads are
lexpected to 60 forward and find
the money at the very time they
are threatened with some new
kind of deal.
| The fact is the owners and
managements of the railroads
| have confidence in the sound
common sense of the people of
this country and believe the peo-
pie at large desire the railroads
to have such treatment and to
make such earnings as will en-
able them to continue to improve
and expand their properties us
ed for transporta ton purposes.
| History is merely repeating
itself. Prosperity arrives when
ever the railroads and the peo-
pie using them have shown a
fine spirit of cooperation during
1923 which has been helpful to
all. The same helpful spirit of
cooperation throughout 1924 will
bring new achievements and
prosperity.
| The railroads are now regulat-
ed by law as to their earnings,
their expenditures and their
labor bills. To this the roads
do not object, but have right
to object to loose statements
which pass for facts that mis-
lead the public in respect to the
railroads having earnings guar
anteed to them, and in other
matters. There is no guaranty
of earnings in the Transports
tion Act or anywhere else. Even
if there were such a guaranty.
the railroads of the United
States have not earned any such
sum that could be called fair
return, Notwithstanding the big
business they have done this
year. The fact is the railroads
ask only for fair play in their
desire to give good service at
fair rates, and it is hard to be-
lieve the public will permit any
new law to hamper the roads
and to slow down the general
| ,,roc1,o,.itu
The border vidette., 1924-01-05

ton Of coal, oil, lumber and
steel on fair levels and building
operations pushing we'll into the
winter-unemployment not large
Prescott-Five lumber mills at
Flagstaff, Williams and Cooley
produce annually about 30,000,.
600 feet Of box lumber.
Phoenix Grazing applications
being received by rangers of
Tonto national forest from stock
men.
Nogares-Southern Club being
remodeled and enlarged.
Kingman - Tom Reed Gold
Mines Co. financing Katherine
property for active development
Jerome-Big ore body run
ming from 8 to 10 per cent cop.
per opened on 1919 level of. the
Verde Central property.
Arizona has received $154,.
577 70 from U. S. Department of
Agriculture as share of receipts
from national forest resources
during fiscal year 1928.
.Phoenix-Grazing ranges in
northern part of state in excel
lent condition as result of recent
rains.
Yuma-Over 100 head of mules
purchased by farmers OF valley
in past two weeks.
Ajo-Striking of underground
river in desert assures sufficient
water supply for operation of
New Cornelia's 5.OOO-ton mill.
Yuma-Texas Oil Co. opens
modern distributing plant.
Ashfork-Construction of Ash
Fork-Prescott highway to be
completed and opened to traffic
January /.
Benson-Cook and johnson
contracting for approximately
1000 steers for the Reddington
ranch.
Cooley-Apache Lumber Co.
and Apache Railroad Company
change hands in recent sale.
Phoenix-Construction of pro.
posed cutoff on Phoenix-Yuma
road at Dome will shorten dis.
tance six miles.
Stafford - Surveying of new
road from city south of Tomb
Bisbee road under way,
Cooley-Cady Lumber Co. to
erect IS new dwellings to care
for increased number Of en-.
ployes.
Yuma-First carload of let.
tuce for 1923-24 season leaves
Yuma valley.
Acknowledgements are
stampeding to scene of rich gold
strike on claims west of Vulture
mine.
Yuma-Conditions in both the
Yuma and Imperial valleys are
greatly improved over cores.
ponding period last year.
Phoenix-4,OOO head of cattle
being fattened in local stock
yards on cotton seed hulls prior
to shipping to all parts of the
country.
Yuma-California man plan.
ming to lease $500 acre tract in
valley to grow vegetables dur.
ing 1924 season.
The border vidette., 1924-01-05
ARIZONA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW.
December 81, 1929

Country enters upon the New
Year with fair prospects in near.
ly all lines of industry-produc.
ton Of coal. oil, lumber and
steel on fair levels and building
operations pushing we'll into the
Observation-Disclosures not large
The border vidette., 1924-01-05

Continued on page fouEl
Evening star., 1924-03-20
RIVER FUNDS ANNOUNCED. /.
Allotments Made From River and
Harbor Appropriations.


Allotments from current river and
harbor appropriations, announced yes
terday by Maj. Gen. Beach, chief Of
Army engineers. included $500, 600 for
San Francisco harbor, SIS, 900 for Will
namette Slough, Oregon; $4,000 for
Chicago river, Illinois. transferred
from Waukegan harbor, Illinois, and
$31,1S7 for East river and He'll Gate,
New York. transferred from Coenties
Reef, N. Y.
Gen. Beach also announced that
recommendations had been sent to
Congress requesting S229, 900 for mod
lfication of the existing project of
Stockton and Mormon channels. Cali
fornia; $4,000 for Deep river, Wash
ington, channel improvements; $1,000
for prevention and food control work
in the Cowlitz river. Washington
$4,000 for flood control work in the
Puyallup river. Washington, and $87,-
100 for channel work in the Oman
cock river, Virginia
Evening star., 1924-03-20
WOMAN OF MYSTERY
SOUGHT IN MURDER
Tamale Peddler Tells of Nocturnal
Visitors at Home of Slain
Woman Doctor.
THREE MEN ARE HELD
Jealousy, Robbery or Quarrel With
Admirer Possible Motives.
BY the Associated Press.

ny tne ASSOcldteu freSs.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 20.-A
mystery woman was introduced today
into the battling murder of DR.. Zoe
wilkins, marital adventures and os-
teopath, while police pursued other
avenues of investigation opened by
statements of three men held for in
VeStigation.
The three held are Charles wilkins,
brother of the slain woman. who had
often quarreled with her, he says. over
her gay life: b. +. Tarpley, who says
he was patient. but who others say
was her intimate, and billiard Davis,
negro janitor. who is declared to have
attempted once to attack the woman.
Belief that DR.. wilkins was veal
thy began to fade today. investiga-
ton indicating that she had disposed
of most of the 100000, or so, that she
obtained several years ago by her
marriage to Thomas w. Cunningham
wealthy Joplin. Mo. banker.
Several Motives Developed.
Jealousy, robbery, violent quar-
rel with one of her many admirers, or a
dispute over her tangled financial af-
fairs. are the motives being develop
ed by the police.
the Wilkins home Sunday night, a
tamale peddler. who knew DR.. Will
kins as customer, told the police
1t was he who introduced the story
of the mystery woman. The peddler
said he saw an automobile stop in
front of the house and a woman en-
ter, rejoin a male companion in a
few minutes and drive away. Short
ly after, another man walked from
the rear of the wilkins home, the
peddler told the police.
DR.. Wilkins was beaten and Slashed
90 Tr,a
day, when she last was seen and
when the murder was discovered
Evening star., 1924-03-20
HAGERST0WN EX.MAYOR
IN RACE FOR CONGRESS
Honesty, Economy, Lower Taxes
and a Square Deal for ALL"
Mish's Platform.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, March 20.-Frank
w. Mish. former state senator from
Washington county and former
mayor of Hagerstown, has filed in
the five counties of the sixth dis
trict his papers for the democratic
nomination for Congress. Mr.. Mish
announced platform of honesty
and economy in government, lower
taxes and a square deal for all
classes"
Mr.. Mish was a candidatS for Con-
gress two years ago, with Repre-
sentative Zihlman as his opposition.
He was defeated by less than a thou
sand in a republican stronghold of
10000 majority. He is also head of
the farm bureau of Washington
county and was instrumental in the
formation of the bureau in this and
Frederick counties. Mish is a farmer
and is d great advocate of all meas
ureS for relief of the aRriculturist
Evening star., 1924-03-20

CENTENARIAN rs BURIED.
Special Dispatch to Tho Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, March 20.-Hun-
dreds attended funeral services for
Evening star., 1924-03-20
lNCE SUED FOR $4,000
BY KINSMAN AFTER FIGHT
Anita Stewards Brother Says Di-
rector Fractured Skull-Had
Visited Road Houses.

By the Associa ted Press
NEW YORK, March 20-Ralph Ince.
motion picture director, has been
served with papers in a $4,000 dam
age suit filed against him by his
brother-in-law, George Stewart
brother of Anita Stewart, film act
ress, as the aftermath of a fist fight
between the two last August, it be-
came known today
The fight, Stewart charges, oc-
CURED in a lonely spot on the Boston
post road while he. Ince and several
others were motoring to New York
after visiting roadhouseS. Ince 10 al
legged to have ordered the driver to
stop the car and to have directed
Stewart to alight. The fight fol-
lowed.
Stewart said he received injuries,
including a fractured skull. which
confined him to a hospital for three
weeks after the encounter.
Evening star., 1924-03-20

recent meeting here of a society
formed to devise means Of making
paint durable. It is the purpose Of
this society to make modern buildings
brighter both within and outside and
to provide paint for exteriors which
will not have to be renewed every
few years.
The organization is battling against
the grayness and monotony Of modern
cities and seeking a remedy. Magde-
which has adopted brighter colors
and painted entire squares red and
blue, thus relieving the deadly
monotony.
Evening star., 1924-03-20
Company Takes Over Novels.

LONDON, March 2O.-A commercial
company, called 'Elinor' Glyn, Limit
ed" has been formed to acquire the
copyright to the literary works of the
woman novelist, according to the
Daily Express. The nominal capital
is $4,000 and one Of the directors is
Sir Rhys Williams. husband of Mrs.
Glyn's younger daughter.
Evening star., 1924-03-20
WILL PRESENT PLAY.
Hebrew Alumni to Give .Pinero
Comedy.

The Alumni Society of the wash
ington Hebrew Congregation has
been holding rehearsals during the
past month in prepa ration for play,
THE Amazons," farce e-comedy, by
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, one of Eng
lands foremost dramatistS, which
will be given in the Shubert- Belasco
Theater April Is.
The alumni play committee includes
the following: Maurice H. Kafka,
chairman; Miss Hilda King, Mrs. r.
b. H. Lyon. Mrs. Samuel BA Pack and
Phillip Friedlander.
Evening star., 1924-03-20
Invented PROCESS HELD
RARE AID IN PAINTING
Will Make Frescoes as Durable as
Those of Michelangelo, Munich
Decorator Declares.

By the Associated Press.
MUNICH, March 20.-Dr. Kurt
Schmidt has invented an electrically
heated palette and devised means Of
applying hot paint mixed with wax
in such a manner that he believes it
Will be possible to make frescoes as
durable as those of Michelangelo.
He discussed his inventions at a