White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-03
Worlds News


has reached the enormous total Of
SO, 429, 100000, according to review
made public by the Indiana Limestone
Quarrymen's Association, based on re-
ports from a thousand cities and
towns of the United States.
BUENOS AIRES. - Fifteen work
men were killed and many others In.
jured in an explosion Of Ia tons Of
dynamite stored on the railroad I'M
der construction between Antocha and
Tupiza, Bolivia.
VIENNA.-A strongbox containing
the memoirs of the Princess of Pless
is reported to have been stolen re-
Gently from the Kensington, England,
estate of the princess. The memoirs
dealt with the personality of the for
mer German kaiser. They were writ
ten by the princess during the war
when the kaiser chose Castle Fuer-
stenstein, the Press residence in ST.
lesia, as grand headquarters for the
armies, and lived for several months
as a self-invited guest In close social
contact with the princess.
MADRAS, Ore.-The business sec
ton of Madras, county seat Of Jeffer.
son County, was swept by 100000
fire recently. The flames started from
an undetermined cause In restau
rant Thirteen business houses were
wiped out. Approximately Is per cent
insurance was carried.
BUENOS AIRES. - r h / TT YIN IN
thousand tons Of galvanized steel
sheets are to be used as barriers to
stop the ravages Of locusts In the ag-
ricultural regions of Northern Argen-
tina. The department Of agriculture
signed $5,OOO,O00 contract for the
material recently with the United
States Steel Products Company. The
sheets will be distributed to the farm
ers, who will erect them when the To-
Gusts appear, each farmer digging a
ditch in front Of the barriers into
which the marching locusts will ac-
cumulate and be destroyed.
OREGON CITY, Ore. - The old
"swimmin' hole" claimed the lives Of
three small school children here re-
Gently. On their way home from the
Echo Dell school, Nlma and Elmer
Heilman, 10-year-old twins, and their
brother, Ernest, 8, went for swim In
ha har hu ptua Frhnu naih1ad
around in the hole on large plank.
Without warning it overturned, throw
ing the three into the water. They
were unable to swim.
BEND, Ore.-The body of Port
Rock rancher from Northern Lake
County was brought into Bend recent
ly following a thunderstorm in which
the man and three horses with which
he was blowing were killed. Other
farm hands missed him at the dinner
hour and went into the fields, only to
find him dead beside the horses. The
rancher's name Is Hamlin, but his
initials have not been learned. A wife
and baby survive him.
| NOME, Alaska.-Extensive prepar
ations have been made to place Alas
ka's reindeer industry this fall on a
par with fox-raising, mining, fishing
and sheep-raising in the territory, &C.
cording to Carl j. Lomen, president Of
a trading corporation. Mr.. Lomen
explained that despite the fact that
many natives are very wealthy on pa
per, due to their large reindeer herds.
they are nearly starving. The herds
have increased to point where they
must be depleted. The one sure way
without waste is to cultivate q taste
for reindeer meat not only through
out Alaska but in the United States
and in foreign countries.
BRIGHTON, England.-The Rev. G..
X. Olivier resigned from st. Paups
Church, which employs only unmar.
ried clergymen, In order to marry
Miss Isobel Ronaldson.
MILAN. - Nero's pompous bathing
house, the largest Of the Roman per
Tod yet discovered, has been evacuat
ed at Agnano, near Naples. The
structure is six stories high and 112t
feet long. The three topmost galleries
were reserved for individual steam
baths.
MANILA. = Cavite, Just across the
bay from here, before whose ancient
walls Admiral Dewey destroyed the
Spanish fleet in 1898, was recently
the sweetest smelling town in thu
Far East. A blaze, supposed to b
caused by flrecrackers, broke out II
a perfume factory just outside thu
navy yard gate, and before the sailors
and marines, aided by the citizens
could extinguish the fire, 1t had con
sumed $4,000 pesos worth Of "Ylang
Ylang" essence, distilled from native
flowers. The odor, which is sleep pro
ducing, hung over the town for hour
and sent the residents to bed so earl,
that but few witnessed the display O
fireworks which was to wind up thu
days festivities.