White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-12
Washington News

SEATTLE.-No longer will tourists
stop beside a sparkling stream and
wonder whether it Is case of drink
or not to drink" They will know at
glance whether the innocent appear
ing clear water is good, for Pure
Drinking Water" signs will mark the
springs from which 1t is safe for au-
tomobile tourists to drink, this sum-
mer, through the cooperation Of the
State Department of Health, the Au-
tomobile Club of Western Washing
ton and the State Highway Depart
ment, according to an announcement
by the State Director of Health.
A number of cases of typhoid fever
in the state have been traced by the
health department to the use by auto
mobile tourists of certain contaminat
ed springs, wells and other water sup
plies located on the roadside. Since
the period Of typhoi incubation varies
from fifteen to twenty-one days, the
tourists so infected will in turn infect
localities far removed from the origi-
nal source.
The State Department of Health
will examine the source and analyze
the water of as many streams and
water supplies of Western Washing
ton as is possible with a limited per
sonnet and the Automobile Club has
offered to furnish the necessary signs
to mark the springs from which it is
safe to drink. Through the State
Highway Department, these signs will
be placed on the road.
Maurice Langhorne, one
of the leading members of the Pierce
County Bar, and an outstanding Dem
ocrat, was last week selected chief
defense counsel by former Gov. Louis
F. Hart, charged with asking a bride
in connection with fees for settling the
affairs of the defunct Scandinavian
American Bank of this city.
SEATTLE.-Appoint Of Angus
D. Chisholm as field officer in charge
of al" district headquarters and EN-
ployment service here, was announced
by w. G. Ruegnitz, newly-elected
president of the Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen. Mr. Chisholm.
who succeeds II. HI. Damman as al
manager in the Puget Sound district
has been in the logging and lumber
business most of his life and was sew
eral times elected board of director
member from the Seattle district.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that a seriou
grasshopper epidemic Is threatening
Okanogan and Grant Counties wer,
received at state offices here. A dis
trict rs miles square in the vicinit.
of Nelson is reported threatened II
Okanogan County. Just how serious
the situation is in Grant County hat
not been reported.
Joseph McClaskey, prominent Okla
hogan County farmer who in past
years has been a leader in the fight
against the insect epidemics, in seek
ing state aid for the purchase of
poison bait to use against the grass
hoppers, according to kilograms re.
ceived here.
The legislature has made no specific
appropriation for fighting grasshop-
pers, it was said by state officials,
but it is understood that money might
be available from the predatory ami
NAL fund.
Grasshopper epidemics have been
an annual affair in Okanogan and
Grant Counties since 1917, the dam
age done by the insects being I'M
usually heavy in 1919.
TACOMA.-Tacoma will be the
meeting place for the next session of
the directors of Puget Sound and Brit
ish Columbia, Associated, the organi-
cation through which five Puget Sound
cities are advertising the summer at
fractions Of this ideal playground, &C
cording to Manager A. H. Banwell OF
the Tacoma Tourist Information Blu
reau upon his return from meeting
at Vancouver, B. G.. The next meeting
was left to the call Of Fred Crone of
Vancouver, president Of the associa-