White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-03-13
Washington News

game commissioners have announced
that the fishing season in this county
will not open until April Is. Most
Eastern Washington counties have
set April as opening day.
WALLA WALLA.-W. A. White,
former receiver at the U. S. Land Of
flee here, has taken up new duties as
police sergeant, succeeding Douglas
McCauley. White managed Mayor
Hills last mayoralty campaign and
also handled his Seattle office as a
Democratic candidate for governor
KELSO-Robert Hanse, Is, of Eu.
faula, claimed the bounties for two
coyotes killed by him recently, at the
county auditors Office last week.
CHEHALIS.-Theo Albert, who
for the past five years has served as
district horticultural inspector for
Lewis, Pacific, Grays Harbor and
Thurston counties, with headquarters
here, has severed his relations with
the State Department of Agriculture.
He is a graduate Of the University OF
Wisconsin and plans to devote his
time to the profession of landscape
gardener.
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Lieutenant
Oakley G.. Kelly landed at the avia-
ton field here last week after flying
from Redding, CAL, 375 miles, in three
hours. He had taken his airplane to
San Diego for overhauling
SPOKANE.-The body of Daniel M
Drumheller, member of prominent
Eastern Washington family of : thai
name, who died recently in Los An
geles from heart trouble, is being
brought here for burial. He went to
California from Missouri in 1910 and
was a pony express rider in pioneer
days.
DILLINGHAM; second hot wa
ter lake has been discovered in the
Mount Baker National Forest, accord
ing to word brought to the local for.
estry office by w. J. Elliott, prospec.
tor and mountain explorer. 1t is sit.
uated near the west fork Of Bacon
Creek at an altitude of about 5000
feet. He believed the temperature to
be about 112 degrees Fahrenheit
There is another hot water lake in
Mount Baker Forest. 1t is near What.
com Pass, is about 80 acres in size,
and does not freeze during the win
ter.
CLEAR LAKE. = A Holstein COW
owned by Dave Parker of Clear Lake,
Skagit County, gave birth to triplets
recently. All were normal in appear.
ance and at last reports were doing
we'll.
NEW YORK.-The steel outlook
never was better and all steel COM
panies should show improved earn
ings this year over 1924, Charles M.
Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, said on his depart
ure for Europe. Prices, he asserted,
should increase at least $40 ton be-
cause of the cost Of raw materials, as
present levels are $40 a ton lower
than year ago. "The general bust
ness outlook could not be better. Am.
erica is growing all the time and there
Is no occasion for ALARM" he said.
YAKIMA. - James Scott McMurry,
who crossed the plains 70 years ago
with his parents when only 8 years
old, died recently in st. Elizabeth's
Hospital. He was born in Quincy, H.
linois. His parents were among the
early settlers in the Willamette Val
ley, and the University Of Oregon is
said to be located on the old dona-
ton claim of the family. He had been
married 81 years, and leaves his wife.
eight children, fourteen grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
CAMP LEWIS.-En route to Wash
ington, d. c., to attend the annual
conference of the acknowledgements of
all the states in the Union. Brigadier-
General Maurice Thompson, the ad.
of Washington, left
here last week. The conference Is
called by the general staff of the
army. General Thompson explained
hat the conference is held each year
% work out problems which confront
The National Guard in every state,
md to coordinate the National Guard
Units of all states, that they may
Junction as material part of the
United States Army.
SEATTLE+The auto bus monopoly
n the State of Washington and adj
dining states with certificate of ne
essity laws was broken last week
through ruling Of the United States
upreme Court, according to local le-