White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-01-02
Worlds News

days in advance of any recent year,
and the fruit is ripper than usual, ac-
cording to a report just issued by the
California Fruit Growers Exchange.
Generally at this season Of the year
fruit is being held in the packing
houses, the report states. It is also
shown that the market supply Of
citrus fruits in United States and
Canada for the 1924 season exceed
ed the previous season by is per cent,
or a marked rise over any other per-
iod. Out of the total of 100000
boxes of oranges and grapefruit sold,
California supplied 22,000,000 boxes;
Florida, 20,000,000, and the remainder
came from Porto Rico, Louisiana, Al
ALBANIA, Texas and Arizona, with some
importations from Japan.
NEWPORT.-The late Paul ]. Raj
ney of New York and Newport, famed
as hunter of African game animals,
will have his name linked with the
preservation of the records Of nature.
Forty square miles of territory in Yer
million Parish, Louisiana, have been
| presented to the National Audubon
societies by his sister, Mrs. Grace
Rogers, to be maintained in perpetu-
ity as haven for birds and to be
known as the Paul ]. Rainey Life
Sanctuary. All hunters will be kept
i off of tho nrnserve
NEW YORK.-Eight persons, two
of them women, dead, and several
other persons unconscious, and al
said to be in serious condition, were
taken to Bellevue Hospital recently as
a result of what the police and hos
pital surgeons report as holiday cpl
demic of poisonous liquor cases
Sixty-seven persons, including II
women, are now in the alcoholic WARD
of the hospital.
GENEvA.-The difficulty of drafting
a general plan to curb opium smoking
in the Far East while the production
of opium continues heavy in China
was the subject Of discussion among
the powers having Far Eastern pos
sessions during the International con
ference. It was contended that 81
much opium is smuggled out Of China
into other Far Eastern countries tina
any plans the powers themselves
might frame would be made ineffec
tive by contraband activities. s. AL
fred SEE, Chinese minister to the Uni
ted States, admitted there was con
siderable illicit production of opium
in China, but said this was due to the
ambitions of militarists who encour
, age local production of the poppy as {
means Of raising revenue to purchase
arms. He said that the internal sit
uation had improved and an importan
conference Of provincial leaders woult
open soon at Picking to discuss admin
, istrative reforms. China's annual pro
duction Of opium was estimated a
between eight and fifteen thousan,
tons.
LONDON.-Among 200 Boy Scout
who have just arrived here from Brit
ish East Africa is Ronald Ryan, whit
holds the distinction of being tn,
youngest lion hunter in the world
Ronald, whose grandfather emigratet
from Ireland, is Is years old. He wa.
born in East Africa and from the ags
Of 10 helped his father to clear theil
farm Of lions. In Ronald's very frs
hunt he and his father narrowly es
capped being devoured by the beasts.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
The next Is years probably will de
eide the question once and for al
whether the white race is to have an!
part in the ultimate development o
South Africa or whether 1t is to b
crowded out by the native negro pop
ulation, according to statement in I
government blue book analysis Of tn,
1921 census, issued recently. Failing
additions from abroad to the ranks o
the whites, the blue book says, tina
the whites must forever abandon tn,
present prospect Of maintaining theil