White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-11-07
Washington News
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,

1895 has been received at the state
museum on the University campus.
The canoe was built 80 years ago by
an Indian chief. 1t was first used by
the North American Trading Com
pany. Mrs. Brigget Edward, one Of
the first white women in Alaska and
believed to be the first on the Yu-
kon padded from the interior of
Alaska to the coast in the canoe in
1896 The canoe was shipped here
from st. Michael, Alaska
WALLA WALLA. = Harvesting SUI.
gar bets started today in the valley
The crop is estimated at 70 carloads
Growers are guaranteed minimum
price and the market will vary &C.
cording to the price of sugar the next
few months. The Walla Walla crop
goes to the Yakima refinery, operated
by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
X SHELTON-Robert Cross, 20, log
Aer, fell 125 feet to death recently
while topping spar tree at the
Cranberry Creek Logging Camp, near
Shelton. He was unmarried but leaves
five brothers and four sisters, all re-
siding in Shelton.
DAVBNPORT.-Tw Two hundred and
eighteen Chinese pheasants were re-
leased recently south and southwest
of Edwall by M. F. Van Hook, county
game warden. The birds were Sc
cured by the Lincoln County Game
Commission from the State Game
Farm at Walla Walla.
CENTRALIA. - Forty-six members
Of the Centralia Kiwanis Club are 60
ing to vote for Coolidge, six for Davis
and one for La Toilette, according to
straw vote taken at the weekly
luncheon of the club recently.
SUMNER-County authorities were
recently trying to identify the body of
a boy about Ia years old who was
crushed to death near the railway
station here, when he was thrown un-
der a moving freight train as a car
load Of lumber on which he was riding
swayed to one SIDE The initials "A.
H" scratched on the bucklet of his
belt offered the only clue to his iden-
tity.
TTLE.-Wearied by a strenu-
GUS airplane trip from Vancouver
Wash, to Washington, D. c., on Off
cial business in the capital for the Sc
attic Chamber of Commerce, and a
long rail trip home Ezra Meeker, 49,
year-old Oregon trail pioneer, went
straight to bed on arrival here. His
only statement was that he had a
swell trip"
SEATTLE. - Figures compiled by
the S. w. Straus company show that
Seattle ranked first and Tacoma Sec
ond among the cities of the state in
the valuation Of building work during
the month Of September. The figures
follow Seattle. s1,439,97O: Tacoma,
$546,860; Spokane, $203,724; Yakima.
$161 ,465; Everett, $79,484; Belling-
ham, $74,313; Vancouver, $37,835; Ho-
GUAM, $36,645.
CHEHALIS.-Mrs. James Leggett,
in charge of Alexander Park, the pop
ular tourist resort In Chehalis, has
compiled figures ON travel into the
park during the past season. Her re-
port shows there were 1883 cars stop
ping over night In the park, with an
estimated personnel of 1000 people
using the accommodations. Receipts
from rental for grounds from tourists
were 1874. There were 400 cars regis
tered at Henderson Park in the east
ern part of the city, and 5000 collected
In fees
KELSO.-Archie Linville of this
city was painfully injured recently
while hunting near Ostronder with
p. A. Mckee, Pat Thomas and Otto
Disque. Their dog flushed covey of
birds and as Thomas raised his gun to
fire at them his finger slipped on the
trigger, discharging 1t prematurely,
the load of shot firing directly into
Linville, who was at distance OF
about 30 feet. A leather coat and hat
is all that saved him from serious in
jury.
YAKIMA.-While the pear crop Of
the valley was just about half OF last
year, the prevailing prices have re-
turned almost dollar for dollar with
the large crop of 1923. Last years
crop brought 1881 400, and this
years crop will have returned $780,
900. On boxes, paper, labor, freight.
'tc., there was saving Of at least
81, 100000, making the value Of this
years pear crop at least 100000
more than the larger crop Of 1928.
WDNATCHDE.-Alt hough their
mother escaped by rushing into the
street when their home caught fire,
four small children Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Paulsen of Oroville were
burned to death. Cause of the fire Is
unknown. The children's ages ranged
from to IL years. Mrs. Paulsen was
sleeping on the porch Of the home,
the children were inside. Efforts OF
the mother to rescue the young ones
were unavailing. Paulsen, the father,
was at his work as roundhouse
keeper for the Great Northern Rail-
way at the time. The bodies of the
children were cremated
CHEHALIS.-H. F. Taylor OF An.
phor Farm corrafory nP uyoob