White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-07-04
Worlds News


railway lines in the West was 294,869
an increase of 1878 over the number
during the same months Of the pre-
ceding year, according to report o.
the Dominion Bureau Of Statistics
This is over nine times the number
during the same months 20 years ago
OF these 294,S69 cars of grain, 162,
439 were handled by the Canadian
Pacific Railway and the balance BY
other railways.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba.-T h o ug /
snow and rain fell throughout the
Prairie provinces in April, resulting
in a belated spring opening of farm
work. the sub-soil moisture required
has been obtained and the land IL
now in excellent condition, according
to the weekly crop report Of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway The total acre
age prepared in the Prairie provinces
for all grain for 1924 is placed at IA,
156,905, as compared with 1926, 1853
acres in 1923. The ultimate acreage
of 1924, of course, will depend upon
how much spring blowing farmers are
able to accomplish.
BEDFORD, Ind. - Building stone
production here SO far this year has
been greater than during the same
period last year. Twelve large quar-
ries are running at full capacity. I'm
the first three months of the present
year." says A. e. Dickinson, first vice.
president of the Indiana Limestone
Quarrymen's Association, production
was Is per cent greater than the same
period last year"
NEW YORK-The Municipal Coun-
Gil of Paris at one of its recent SEES
sions passed a resolution expressing
the hope that the project for the con-
struction of the Channel tunnel be.
tween England and France should be
taken up again, as such tunnel
would be of commercial value to both
countries.
The Bankers Trust Company is adj
vised in this connection by its French
Information Service that the plants
anu otoIAoht WhASAA W "a y
erected some years ago at a point
along the coast between Boulogne and
Calais, are still in existence and have
been kept in a state of repair, so that
work could be resumed at any time on
the existing gallery go meters below
the sea, which at present measures
1,84O meters in length.
TAIROKU, Formosa. - A suicide
pact among four young girls of one
of the aboriginal Formosan tribes In
the interior of this island, resulted in
the death of two of the covenanters.
The four girls, between Is and 1S
years of age, had received modern ed
ucation in schools established by the
Japanese. They had heard something
about the right of women to decide
for themselves in regard to marriage;
an entirely new idea in the commu
nifty in which they were reared. WheI
the parents of one of the girls tried
to force her into an unwelcome mar
riage the four agreed to die together
They tried hanging. Two succeeded
but the trees selected by the others
broke under their weight and the.
lived
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Twelve
known dead, four seriously injured
more than a dozen houses, barns ano
mills demolished and thousands Of
acres of farm land ruined, constituted
the toll of the most disastrous cloud
burst ever recalled in this section. II
appeared to have it's center near Hun
ter, Siam and Gardens Bluff and or
Little Stony Creek and Blue Springs
Creek, where a house in which two
families lived went to pieces, taking
nine lives. The storm came withou
warning. All communication out O.
and east of Hunter, six miles from
Elizabethton, was cut off with the
destruction Of telephone lines, wash
ing out of railroads and demolishinG
of roadways.
MONTREAL, Que. - The Canadian
Pacific Railway Company announces
46-day cruise to the Orient and re-
turn. Passengers on the steamships
Empress of Asia and Empress Of Rus
sian may, if they SO desire, enjoy 6
wonderful 46-day cruise from Van
couver to Japan, China and the Phil
ippine Islands for the sum Of $3.50
minimum first cabin rate, the steam
ship being used as a hotel while II
port at the various stopping places.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Alaskan fish
cries reservations have been abolishe
by an executive order of Presiden
Coolidge, the department of com
merce has announced. Action wa
taken following the passage of tn
fishery law by the last Congress.
HONOLULU.-TheE Eva sugar plal
tation on the island of Oahu, wher
Honolulu is situated, has set ne'
world record for sugar productio
with field that produced 1858 ton
per acre. The approximate net valu
of each acre is $1,700.
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