White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05

panies Of that date to Harry G. John
son, supervisor of banking, he an
nounced. Total deposits June 80 were
$172,222, 1O5.
One of the features of the dedlca-
ton festivities to be held August %
on the formal opening of the million
dollar highway cutoff from Everett to
Marysville, will be float in the par
ade bearing famous pioneer row.
boat, owned by Marysville, which Is
AZ years old.
Ted Robin, %, son of early settlers
in Cowlitz county, was killed in a
woods accident at the Mccormick
Lumber company camp, mile east of
Castle Rock. Robin, timekeeper, was
checking men at work when big
log slipped from a cable and fell
directly upon him.
Grocery stores may be compelled by
city ordinance to close on Sunday, the
supreme court held, affirming the low
er court Of King county and the Sc
attic police court in test action. The
suit was brought to test the validity
of Sunday closing ordinance pass
ed by the Seattle city council.
Word from Olympia recently was
that the state is ready to take over
the Burbank-Pasco bridge from Walla
and Franklin counties and the deal
may be closed within ten days. The
state will pay the counties S215,000
and the bridge will be made free
structure. Toll is now charged.
The brittle old lumber in the late
w. H. "Uncle Joe" Surber's rambling
homestead dwelling succumbed to fire
last week, and where for years stood
one of the city's most romantic land
marks there lies a pile of charcoal.
"Uncle Joe" came to Seattle in a canoe
in 1859 and became the first police
chief.
Ben Powell farmer of the Green
Mountain district east of Cloverdale,
was awakened last Saturday morning
by noise Of his stock. He found the
stock covered and surrounded by
veritable cloud of mosquitoes. Manag-
ing to open the gate, he let the ami
mails into the barn and ran back to
the house covered with the insects.
Thomas H. Richards, Tenino's good
looking bachelor mayor, who recently
offered himself as sacrifice on the
matrimonial altar to provide public
wedding for the Thurston county fair,
which will be held in Tenino Septem-
Der 5, and T., is now reaping the bene-
fits Of the publicity that his offer has
given. Due to the immense volume
of replies being received to his offer
he is seriously considering seeking
cyclone cellar.
The Johnson Construction company,
Vancouver, was awarded the contract
for construction of the new commun-
| ity hotel to be erected in Vancouver
this year, the contract price of $780,
105, including electrical, plumbing,
| heating and other incidental work.
A. e. Coppock, Yakima county pic.
neer, living alone on a ranch west of
Yakima, was found dead in his bed
Sunday morning Saturdays extreme
heat is thought to have been the
cause.
| Stevens and Snohomish were the
leading mining counties in the state
of Washington in 1926, producing
metals respectively worth $468 GAG and
S204,136, the bureau of mines Of the
commerce department reported. Stew
ems county mines yielded 4,19S,417
pounds of lead and 978,889 pounds Of
zinc, while those of Snohomish gave
up 1,347,67S pounds of copper. The
value Of metals obtained in the entire
state totaled $931,491 as compared
with $1,O92,4 AGA in 1925.
George Pittman of North Bend was
drowned and four passengers had a
narrow escape from death when an
automobile stage driven by Pittman
plunged from the Sunset highway into
Lake Keechelus, northwest Of Ellens-
burg. The machine dived over 90
foot embankment into IA feet of water
Pittman succeeded in bringing one of
the passengers, woman, to the sur
face, and then was drowned himself.
The other three passengers, a man,
woman and boy, were rescued I'M
injured.
Total bag of 2940 predatory animals
by the federal, state and cooperative
hunters under the general administra,
tion Of the United States biological
survey, for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1927, is reported by DR.. Glenn R.
Bach, leader Of predatory animal con-
troll work in Washington. Total saw
ing to livestock interests and wild
), game Of the state from this bag, based
on figures furnished by stockmen and
others familiar with predatory animal
depredations, was $157,75O. Expenses
of conducting the work were $685.
1868.
County Game Warden McCurdy of
Clark county has distributed more
than 100000 rainbow and steelhead