White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-11-18

Sheriff Brewer is serving notice on
other sheriffs who report their jails
full that he can take care of no more
prisoners.
Prediction that the apple crop now
being picked in the Wenatchee- Okan-
ogan district will be the most valu-
able ever shipped from that region
was voiced in Seattle recently by My
ron S. Foster, president of the North
western Fruit Exchange Of Wenatchee.
Direct receipts Of the 1927 state fair
were $6S,72S, gain Of $12,314 over
the 1925 fair, or % per cent, according
to report sent out by Secretary Law
son last week. Despite heavy expense
of the 1927 fair, there remains avail
able for the 1928 fair the sum of $685..
555.
While matching his speed against
an automobile, large coyote was
struck and killed recently on the Or.
chards-Burton road by a car driven by
G. H. Baynard. The animal appeared
to be confused by the bright head
lights and made no effort to leave the
road.
Payrolls of road workers in Klicki-
tat county road districts and the gen.
eral road and bridge fund, were only
partially paid for October, as funds
became exhausted on account Of the
law requiring that 20 per cent of all
funds levied for road construction be
held back. until December 1.
Snow and sleet fell at Bellingham
all during the day, but it did not damp
en- the ardor of the ex-service men
who paraded 400 strong and gathered
to the same number at Memorial Park
to do homage to the ninety World war
heroes who live only in memory of
what they did for their country.
S. G. Sexton, 80, the oldest member
of the American Legion, marched in
the Armistice day parade in Vancou-
yer, keeping step with the young men.
Mr.. Sexton enlisted at the age of 80
at Fort Myers, Fla, passed the physi-
cal examinations and served through
the war guarding shipyards on the At
lantic coast.
After several years of effort on the
part of Vancouver business men,
modern lighting system is to be in
stalled on Main street from Third to
Thirteenth street. The city council
last week let contract to the NePage-
McKenney company of Seattle to in
stall go standards, six to a block, on
a bid of $11,SS4.
A tremendous roar of approval went
up from 400 spectators crammed into
the Cowlitz county superior court at
Kelso last Friday, when Charles A.
Young, 81, was found not guilty of
first degree murder, for shooting and
killing Rex Losey, October z, when he
found him in his home, with Young's
wife in his arms.
Whitefish will be protected against
anglers all next year in Yakima coun-
ty, but there will be no closed season
on steelheads, while all other fish may
be caught from April to November
80, under regulations drafted by the
Yakima game commission and ap-
proved by S. F. Rathbun, state super
visor of game and game fish.
Drilling started last week in the
new quest by George hoffman for oil
near Tenino. The drill is now boring
through soft shale. The operations
are expected to require five months.
Two crews are working IL hours each.
The drilling equipment is complete,
most of the tools being new. Ten
thousand feet of casing has been as
sembled.
Picking of apples has been COM
pleted in Walla Walla county and
packing will be done in all houses
within two weeks, while most of the
growers will finish this week. In the
Dayton and Waitsburg regions work
will be about week later The crop
will be about 1000 carloads. Much of
it has gone into storage awaiting bet
ter prices.
With copies of four publications be-
fore them in which the pictures of
Yakima's giant apple pie appear as
being a Seattle product, the Yakima
chamber of commerce, Yakima Valley
Traffic and Credit association and the
Yakima Valley Business Mems associ-
alton started movement to find how
it happened, and to see that it doesn't
happen again.
Fifty representatives of fisheries
and the packing industry, and Of the
state departments of fisheries, both
Oregon and Washington, were in con-
ference at Longview last week and
expressed themselves emphatically in
accord to eliminate economic waste
in fish, and formulated plans for an
organization which will appeal to the
federal government for aid.
A crew is engaged in laying rails
north from the main line of the Mil
waukee on the side of the Columbia
river near Beverley to hold the right
Of way of the proposed Wenatchee-
Southern railway, to be built from