White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-07-01

producer receiving cents pound,
equal to 500 ton. They were pack
ed in 25-pound lug boxes.
One hundred thousand steelhead
trout have been shipped to the Yaki'
ma county game commission from
Birds View, in western Washington,
and will be taken to the Rimrock
hatchers for development.
A new school gymnasium will be
erected in Onalaska as the result of
special school election in the dis
trict, in which special tax levy Of
six mills was authorized for that pur-
pose. The vote was 100 to 0.
Brie ]. Barnes, state director Of
agriculture, will preside at an all-day
hay meeting to be held in Yakima
July %, according to announcement
from j. l. Griner, superintendent of
the states grain inspection service.
John l. Haas has filed for record
with the Yakima county auditor, con-
tracts for the hop crops Of half a
dozen Yakima growers covering one
to three seasons and aggregating $780,
900. The prices are 1SA and 20 cents
a pound.
Lewis Castoma of Cinebar, was
elected president of the Cowlitz In
dian tribe at their annual meeting at
the home of Chief John Ike at Har-
mony, last week. This organization
is composed Of pure-blooded Cowlitz
Indians living in the Cowlitz river
valley.
Brigadier-General Joseph d. Leitch
has assumed command of the Sd divi'
sion, United States army, in addition
to his command Of the 9Th brigade
and Vancouver barracks. Camp Lewis
is headquarters for the Sd division
but General Leitch will remain in
Vancouver for the present.
A proposal to issue $4,000 in bonds
to buy strip of land, erect new
6CllOOl DullulAG6 dAu w plONluC O4oP
ment, and to use $33,925 received
from fire insurance policies, at Ridge
field, was approved last Wednesday,
when the special election of the con-
solidated district, No. 80, was held at
the city hall.
Residents Of Sunset beach, small
resort community west of Hoquiam,
organized into band Of emergency
cremators last week to dispose of
the carcass Of large whale that
washed ashore some time ago. Large
quantities of driftwood were piled
over the body of the deep sea nam.
NAL and set afire.
Plans and specifications for three
miles Of macadam road, connecting
the Pacific highway with the Jaggy
road, have been approved by State
Highway Engineer Hume, according
to a notice received by County Engi-
neer Deako. State permanent high
way funds will be used to pay for
! the Improvement.
Fire-fighting forces of the Rainier
national forest, on the east side Of
the Cascades, west and northwest of
Yakima, have been organized by ap-
pointment of Harry Croxford and
Lawrence Russell as district rangers
and their assistants. The appoint
ments were announced by e. j. Fen.
by, forest supervisor.
Clearing of the 30-acre- site of the
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pany's projected mill at Aberdeen is
rapidly nearing completion. Officials
have announced that as soon as the
first unit, an 100-ton sulphate plant,
Is in operation, work will be started
on an additional 100-ton sulphate unit
and 5O-ton paper mill.
Trustees of Whitman college at
Walla Walla named Mrs. S. B. L.
Penrose to take charge of the Mabel
Baker Anderson institute of fine arts.
The college overseers at their meet
ing recently voted to purchase the l..
II. Anderson home, and use it as an
institute of fine arts. Temporarily
the home will be used for the college
library.
An old Grays harbor industry is be-
ing revived in Aberdeen with the dis
covery of large deposits of special
foundry molding sand on a bluff at
the eastern city limits. The deposit
is directly over the Northern Pacific
main line into town and will be work
ed by means of chute running down
to side track which is now being
built. A similar deposit was mined
there some years ago. %
Walla Walla county commissioners
agreed to place an unnamed sum in
the 1928 budget for repairs and main
tenance of buildings and equipment OF
fair grounds, which are owned by the
county. Mrs. G. w. Whitehouse
president of the park and civic arts
club was granted permission for the
removal from the fair grounds to the
city park of the old pioneers cabin
a log building erected years ago.
Fire caused heavy loss on the A
w. Westerhouse ranch, 16 miles wes
of Walla Walla, the barn, 20 tons O.
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