White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-09-26
Washington News

CHEHALIS. - The sawmill Of thu
BroAn-McPhee Lumber Company
near Lacamas burned recently. Los.
on the plant and lumber is estimated
at $4,000.
[ EVERETT-A dog polsoner mas beer
spreading havoc among canine petl
in the south end Of the city. Two o.
the victims were owned by Chief o.
Police T. E. Headlee, who offers So
reward for information leading to the
arrest of the offender. Another o.
the dogs poisoned was a champion
bull. John Otto and w. G. Paest are
among others reporting loss of theil
dogs.
YAKIMA. - Yakima's hop harvest
will be completed soon. It begun or
August Is. The Tampico district, as
usual, will be the last to finish. Pick
ing too green, according to experts
as caused this seasons crop to shrink
unduly from the picked weight, 10C
pounds Of green hops yielding only
Is to 20 pounds of dried in many
cases, whereas the dried weight should
be 80 pounds.
OLYMPIA-Without regaining con
seriousness long enough to explain
what had happened to him. George
Burrows of Everett, who had lain In
a state Of coma in a local hospital
since September i, died recently. A
severe wound over one temple and
other cuts about the head, together
with a wrenched arm, led authorities
to believe that he was struck by a
passing automobile, as he was found
on highway near here. A brother,
Charles Burrows, living in Everett,
has been notified.
SPOKANE.-The hand of death
reached out twice for its victim. AL
bert STUNT, 16-year-old son of DR.. and
Mrs. A. e. STUNT, before 1t was sue.
cessful. Young STUNT, with cousin,
left recently for Colfax to attend o
family reunion. When four miles
from Rosalia, broken axle threw his
car into the ditch. The boy escaped
injury. A few minutes later while
being driven in the machine of Forest
Ranger L. w. Hunsinger, who picked
up the boys, the automobile swerved
into six-foot ditch and Stunt, strik-
ing on the pavement, suffered a brok-
en- neck, dying instantly.
YAKIMA. from all parts of
the Yakima Valley indicate that orch
ard help is more plentiful this season
than it has been for several years.
During the Jonathan harvest, growers
reported it was impossible to find jobs
for all, and many received no Jobs
whatever. In the Tieton district,
where the harvest is later than else
where, workers are camped about the
orchards waiting for chance at en-
ployment. Through the valley gen.
orally there will be more picking by
the day than in previous years. Wages
range from three dollars to three-fifty
per day.
NORTH BEND,-Harold Sparks, "a,
student at the University of Wash
ington and an executive in Boy Scout
work, was killed recently In fall
while climbing Mt. Kaletan, in the
Cascade Range, near North Bend, &C
cording to a report from the Denny
range rstation. Young Sparks left Sc
attic with a small party Of Mountain
GERS. He had hoped to climb 13 peaks
this season. That was the number he
climbed last year. He had but two
more peaks to climb this year, and he
expected to ascend both on this trip.
Among the peaks Sparks climber this
summer were Mount Rainier, Mount
Baker and Mount Constance. Later
advices say that Mr.. Sparks was I'M
protected by rope and must have
slipped on the very steep cliff. The
mountain is more than 5000 feet high
and he was within 500 feet Of the
summit. The cliff is virtually straight
up and down. He must have been
killed instantly.
DILLINGHAM; hundred strikes
by lightning in the recent electrical
storm set four serious forest fires that
additional men were sent from here
to fight the blazes. The most serious
fire in valuable timber Is on the Wells
Creek trail, which leads to Chain
Lakes. Thirty-two men had confined
this blaze to a small area but a stiff
wind threatened to carry 1t further.
Fifty men are fighting blaze nine
miles above Glacier on the Mount Ba-
ker Highway, but so far only burned
over areas have been affected. Crews
were also sent out to combat fires on
Clearwater Creek and near the Boun-
Diary Red Mountain mine on Silesia
Crack