White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-02-06
Worlds News

WASHINGTON, D. C-Torty-nine
Thousand Japanese flies have been
imported by the United. States depart
ment of agriculture to wage battle
against the Japanese beetle which Is
playing havoc with orchards and farm
products in small section of the
country along the Atlantic seaboard,
says Current Opinion. The beetle got
foothold on the eastern coast sew
eral years ago in territory where it
apparently has few natural enemies.
The larvae or pupae, are believed to
have been brought from Japan in balls
of earth around the roots of imported
shrubbery. It was because the beetle
was known to come from Japan that
the government dispatched specialists
in the identifying of parasites to the
Land of Cherry Blossoms, and it was
determined that the most effective
natural enemies of these pests were
the Japanese, or Dexiid fly. One ex-
pert has returned with these $4,000
dexiid flies in the pupa stage, three
others being still in Japan studying
the beetle. Later it is proposed to
have one man sent to China, one to
Russia and one to northern India, to
make study Of the Japanese beetle
in those countries.
GLOBE, Arizona. - Little Nicholas
Marich, years old, is dead here after
being sting by a scorpion recently.
The child had just leaped out of bed
and ran into the kitchen to kiss his
mother good morning when he was
stung by the insect which had been
Iriven into the house because of cold
weather.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Dinosaur
tracks made 100000 years ago have
been identified on the Navajo Indian
reservation in Arizona, it was an
nounced at the interior department
recently. The footprints measure six
teen inches in length with spread
of thirteen inches. The step or stride
of the prehistoric animal which made
them was estimated to be about fifty
three inches. The toes were discov-
cred in thin layer Of rock about
seven miles from Tuba City, Arizona.
Identification Of the tracks was made
by DR.. G.. w. Gilmore of the Smith
sonian Institution, who visited the
Grand Canyon national park at the
request Of the national park service.
CALGARY, Alberta-A historic
pageant of some proportions Is being
planned by the Calgary Exhibition
Board to be held in Calgary this year
in commemoration Of the 5Oth ami
versary of the establishment Of the
city by Mounted Police in 1875.
TRAIL, B. C.-Canada produced
some 1858, 100000 pounds of lead in
1924, and it is estimated that nearly
13O,000,O00 Of this came from. the
Trail smelter of the Consolidated
Mining and Smelling Company. Can
ada's production figured out at S4,357
tons, as against 65,607 tons in 1928
| VANCOUVER, B. C.-Increase Of
nearly S3,500,000 in land and property
values and of 1909 in population fol
1924 is attested by the city assess
ment figures. The total assessment
is $211,724,565, land being valued al
$126,315,440, and improvements as
sessed at $S5, 4O9,125 Taxed values
in the city in 1925 will be $3.50, OILS, 1896
{. LOS GELES-Architects ane
civic interests now campaigning 70
the carrying out of an elaborate civic
!. center plan here, Will present a bill
to the state legislature at presen
session calling for the building Of {
state building in this city, according
to advices from Sacramento. TIL,
principal plan now in the limeligh
and drafted by group Of architects
calls for the purchase Of the entire
Bunker Hill section and removing tn,
several hundred residences, hotal,
and apartments adjoining that site ant
converting it into park and public
building sites.
DAWSON, Y. T.-Sam Mccormick
mail carrier, had a narrow ESCAPE
when his four horses and sleigh load
ed with mail, including Christina
goods for Miller and Glacier Greek
broke through the ice on Swede Creel
and were submerged in three feet o
water, the temperature being 40 be
low zero. Mccormick cut loose tn
lead horses to let them make thei
own way back to Dawson, distanc
!, of "a miles. He returned later witt
the wheel team and the mail, abar
doning the sleigh. His hands wer
badly frozen.
J WATERBURY, Contour chi
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