White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-12-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.
Spring flowers now bloom on the
Yakima hills, according to w. B. Gun
noe, predatory animal hunter for the
Yakima district.
Burr Hammond Of Sedro-W oolley
died from injuries received in q high
school football game last week. The
boy was IS years old.
Indian riders are rounding up five
carloads of wild horses in the hills OF
Yakima county for shipment to Port
land give factory. The Indians realize
$3.50 head.
Two farmers families were forced
to abandon their homes near Auburn
last week to the flood waters OF Green
river, now at the highest stage known
In ten years.
Approximately 75 Boy Scout leaders
from other points met in Walla Walla
recently for a patrol leaders conven-
ton. The number was augmented by
about 30 local leaders.
O. Rafanelli Of Cedar Falls was
killed and four men were seriously In
jured Sunday when gasoline motor
car on which they were riding was
derailed at Ellensburg.
w. q. Kirchoff, Jr., has leased Is
acres at Longview to raise gladiolus
bulbs for the eastern market. Plant
ing will start in March Of next year
and shipments will be ready by next
fall.
Ornamental street lights just In
stalled ON Pearl street and number
of cross streets In the business dis
trict Of Centralia were turned on
Thanksgiving evening for the first
time.
John F. Martin, So, native OF Wash
ington, died last week at Touchet, az
ter a long illness. His parents crossed
the plains from Indiana in 1852 and
he was born May /, 1858, in Thurston
county.
Fire at Wiley Sunday completely de-
stroyed the packing house and con-
tens of the American Fruit Growers,
Inc, causing loss estimated at $4,000.
The fire was caused by gasoline
explosion.
A tract Of three acres at oath and
Main streets in Vancouver was Sc
lected as the site for the Clark County
general hospital it was announced fol
lowing a meeting of the committee
last week.
Stockholders Of the Whatcom Coun
ty Dairymens association held their
annual nominating meeting at the Bel
bingham plant Saturday. Most of the
$500 members and their families were
4 in attendance.
With the general election less than
candidate for police judge. William
L. Hyndman, incum bent, declares he
will not accept the position again, due
to the low salary.
Arthur e. Corroek, Seattle postoffice
employe, has finished planting 100
trees along the highway between Seat
tie and Everett as the penalty for start
ing fire in the SnoQualmte national
forest last August.
R. e. McCrite, ex-chief Of police OF
Vancouver, who was nominated for
sheriff in 1925 and was later declared
ineligible, has been appointed chief OF
police of Camas and will assume the
office December 1.
Kelso and all Of southwestern Wash
ington were facing the worst flood
conditions in years last week with the
rapid rise of the Cowlitz river and
other tributaries to the Columbia fol
lowing thirty-six hours of steady rain.
Deputy sheriffs dropped in on a
understanding farm house on the Mill
creek road near Walla Walla last week
and discovered the largest still yet 10
Gated in Walla Walla county. The
apparatus had capacity Of 1S0 gal
Ions.
The Goldendale freight train run
ming between Goldendale and Lyle
pulled stalled oil company truck out
of a mud hole on the highway last
week. The engine attached a cable
to the truck and pulled it to solid
ground.
Washington motorists were urged
by Highway Patrol Supervisor William
Cole to align their headlights to con
form with the new law which will be
enforced after January 1. Misplaced
spotlight, binding lights or headlight
globes Of candlepower higher than al.
lowed by law will be unlawful with
the beginning of the new year.
While loading wild horses from the
Yakima reservation into stock cars
George Clark, eastern Klickitat county
farmer and stock man, who has taken
part in the Pendleton Roundup for q
number of years, was injured at Roose-
welt last week.