White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-12-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

One bandit was killed and his COM
panion apparently fatally wounded IN
an attempt to hold up the Hotel WIN
throp in Tacoma last week.
Mike Keos, Everett cafe proprietor,
was killed Friday night on the Pacific
highway when his automobile skidded
and plunged SO feet down an embank'
ment.
Bills presented to the Walla Walla
city commissioners last week showed
total cost Of the new fire station re-
gently completed and occupied to be
$12,O84.85.
J. F. schreiner has been elected
president of the Yakima County Cow
Testing association. B. D. McKelheer
was made vice-president and James
Garretson, secretary.
Thieves broke the cash register OF
to Nlks' temple in Aberdeen last week
and escaped with about 5000 in cash.
A greater amount In cash register
drawer was overlooked.
While attempting to clean rifle
in his home at Almira, Martin Kruger
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. g. Kruger,
was fatally injured when the gun was
accidentally discharged.
Attempts to reopen KXRO, Aber'
deems radio broadcasting station,
which was closed some months ago.
are being made by Jones & Jones, Inc,
Aberdeen realty concern.
Herman q. Reeder, 81, connected
. with the Bloedel-Donovan lumber mills
at Bellingham, died Wednesday just
an hour after having been taken Ill
In the plants planning mill.
A franchise granted by the Douglas
county court to w. e. Buell. for the
construction of ton bridge over the
Columbia at Brewster has been held
valid by the state supreme court.
Blackberries that can be eaten like
bananas, several bites to each, have
been grown in Ferndale by F. N
Block. Most of Blocks berries meas.
ure the length Of mans thumb.
Hill Williams was elected president
OF the Pasco chamber of commerce at
last weeks meeting Of the organiza.
ti6n. Earl James, vice-president for
the past year, was reelected to that
position.
During the past year Yakima county
has expended more than 100000 on in.
digent relief, poor farm, county hos
pital, soldiers relief and other welfare
work. Mothers pensions amounted to
&16,440.
Santa Claus visited 1890 Christmas
trees in Walla Walla, it was estimat.
ed. twenty-five hundred trees were
shipped in from the government forest
reserves and 1000 came in from the
surrounding hills.
Fire destroyed the sawmill Of the
Cascade Lumber and Single company
in Snohomish last week, with an esti
mated loss of 100000. The blaze
was believed to have been started by
q dust explosion.
A complete canvass Of the votes
from 200 unions shows that James A.
Taylor Of Seattle has been elected
president of the Washington Fedora
ton Of Labor over Harry M. Call by
. vote of $3.50 to 1912.
building at Walla Walla stopped last
week and will not be resumed until
weather again permits pouring Of con
crete. The basement, main and sec
ond floors have been poured.
The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
company and the Weyerhaeuser Tim.
Der company have filed an application
With the Kelso city council for per.
NIT to erect poles and lines along
their railway through part Of West
Kelso.
DR.. and Mrs. G. q. Richmond OF
Yacolt were found guilty by Judge
Blair of Clark county on charge OF
refusing to send their daughter, 9, to
school. They were fined $47.90 each,
including costs, total Of $3.50, and
ordered to start the child to school
at once.
For years the chamber Of commerce
Of Walla Walla has sent to school
children all over the United States
information about Walla Walla for
use in school, Until last week not
one child had written to thank Off
Gals for the courtesy. The mail one
day last week brought few words
OF thanks from Bobby Shorb, lola,
Kansas, school boy.
Mayer 8 g. B. Gray-of Puyallup lost
the middle finger on his right hand
last week when it came in contact
with a circular saw used on construc-
ton work at the new plant for the
Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers
association.
John James Young, 9, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Young, Of Tacoma,
Is dead from broken neck as the
result OF falling from the top OF 9
bunker of the Carbonate Coal Mining