White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-12

Centralia, Mas killed instantly when
a donkey engine overturned. He fell
about 20 feet, with the engine on tor
of him.
The board of Yakima county com
missioners decided to include $4,000
in next years budget for construction
of an addition to the county Jail,
which has been badly crowded for
more than year.
Fire caused by disarranged electric
power wires Sunday, due to a wind
storm, destroyed the warehouse OF
the Western Pine Manufacturing COM
pany at Spokane, resulting in loss
estimated at 100000.
The D. ]. Wilson Box company,
manufacturing egg case filters out OF
spruce pulp board, started operation
at Longyiew last week on small
scale. About a carload of filters will
be manufactured weekly at the start.
Downtown Aberdeen presents new
appearance now with the removal of
all power poles from the sidewalk
edges. Transmission lines have been
shifted to the alleys in the course of
a $4,000 development program of the
Grays Harbor Railway & Light COM
pany.
A carelessly tossed cigarette cost
the lives of ~ farm horses near Pres
colt last week. The fire occurred
while both men and horses of har-
vest crew were eating. The horses
were chained to feed racks when
loose feed was set ablaze by the Gig
arctic.
Pioneers stand for all that is rugged
and best in our national life, they
made America possible, they conquer
ed the wilderness of Washington, de-
clared Clark v. Savidge, state land
commissioner, in the principal address
at the Old Settlers picnic at Ferndale
last week.
In attempting to swim through a
drop in the Outlook lateral of the
Sunnyside canal while bathing last
Thursday evening, Glen w. Brown
field, rs, was hurled against a pole
and instantly killed. His body was
recovered about 600 feet below the
drop two hours later.
| Estimates made by grain dealers at
Walla Walla indicated that approx
mately 100000 bushels of the 1928
wheat crop Of the Walla Walla valley
has been either sold or contracted
estimates made previously, this is
about one-fifth of the crop.
A permit for a $25O,OOO municipal
water supply and power plant for the
city of Snohomish was issued last
week by Supervisor of Hydraulics R.
K. Tiffany, allowing 80 cubic feet per
second from the Pilchuck river, nine
cubic feet per second of which will be
used for development Of horsepower.
Washington's unique highway
sign has been stolen for the second
time. Standing at the edge of the
sea the sign has informed tourists
| that China is 600O.3 miles to the west
and the U. S. A. 90 miles to the east.
| Souvenir hunters are believed to have
appropriated the marker both times.
Prominent Yakima orchardists who
have inspected the Kelly Price or
chard near Selah, where between 400
and 500 bats this season have destroy
ed the coddling moths and kept the
fruit absolutely free of worms, will
unite in asking the state horticultural
department to assist in stocking all
apple and pear growing districts in
the state with bats.
! Washington motor vehicle license
receipts for 1927 at the end of July
had gone $4,000 over the total for
the entire year 1926, according to the
monthly report issued by Charles w.
Hinton, assistant state treasurer. Re-
ceipts amounting to $111,S46 in July
brought the tax total for 1927 up to
$5,795, 882.95. The total for the year
1926 was $5,624,16S.57.
| Yakima fruit shippers will not be
in the northwest fruit shippers coun-
Gil this season. B. A. Perham, chair
man of the district organization COM
mittee, announced that the shippers
had decided to abandon all plans for
joining the organization because it
had been found impossible to sign up
the 10000 cars of fruit considered nee
essary to make the organization eff
| fective.
The Cowlitz County Cattle Testing
association has completed it's sixth
month of this testing year with 10
COWS producing more than 300 pounds
Of butterfat to date. The association
has 54S cows, of which 500 were test
ed this month out of 26 herds. The
average per cow for the month was
710 pounds of milk and 1872 pounds
of butterfat. There were la COWS
that produced more than 40 pounds of
fat and SO COWS more than SO pounds
for July.
Contract for construction of the new
dining hall and kitchen for the state
school for the deaf at Vancouver, a