White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-16

a merchant of that city could build a
non-fireproof building met with failure
last Tuesday night when the council
failed to pass the ordinance authoriz-
ing the change. The final vote was
3 to 2.
According to reports in circulation
at Ridgefield, prunes in various sec
lions of Clark county are cracking, as
a result of recent heavy rains. The
tonnage will be reduced somewhat, ac-
cording to w. HI. Wood, manager of
the Washington Growers Packing cor
poration.
Snow, which has covered much of
the Blue mountains during the past
week, has had its effect on wild ami
mails, and last Saturday two timber
wolves, driven to the lowlands by the
snow, raided. chicken ranch near
kooskooskie, summer resort, IL
miles from Walla Walla.
Members of the Auburn Fire depart
ment are now adequately covered in
case of accident or death by action
taken by the city council recently. A
blanket accident policy covering the
volunteer members OF the department
during their activity as firemen was
taken out by the council.
Barney & Hinchman Of Portland,
Or, were given the contract by the
Orchards school board for the erection
of a modern fOur-roOm brick school
building at Orchards, on bid of $12,-
3975O. Construction work will be
started soon and it is expected to
complete the building by December 1.
The interstate commerce commits
sion denied the application of the
Northern Pacific railroad for author
ity to continue rates on wool from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho to GER
tain central and eastern points with
out observing the long and short haul
provision of the Interstate commerce
act.
Assurance that the preliminary in
vestigation of the Burbank irrigation
district will be continued and COM
plete report prepared was given rep
resentatives of the district and mem
bers of the Walla Walla and Pasco
chambers of commerce by, Governor
Hartley at a meeting in Pasco recent
ly.
The second dividend amounting to
Is per cent will be paid by the Napa-
vine State bank, which closed last
January, on September %, bringing
the total paid back to depositors to
rs per cent. Liquidation of the bank
has cost the banking department vir.
tually nothing, Supervisor Johnson
said.
Two large plants announced recent.
| ly are said to assure the continued in.
| dustrial growth of Montesano. These
are the establishment of charcoal
and wood by-products plant, which
will be the first Of it's type in this
country and the building Of % miles
Of new railway by Schafer Brothers
local loggers.
Two hens and one gobbler, Matched
from Kentucky wild turkey eggs, have
been received at the county game pens
on Cold creek and will be used to
hatch broods for release in Clark
county, Game Warden McCurdy an
nounced. Five hundred Chinese pleas
ants are being held at the pens fol
release after the hunting season
closes this fall.
Construction Of new bridges on the
Pacific highway to span the Cowee
man river south of Kelso and the Ka
lama river north of Kalama is undel
consideration by the state highwa.
committee, following report by o. A
Piper, construction engineer, that tn
present bridges are virtually beyon,
economic repair. Engineers were in
structed to prepare plans for new
bridges across the streams. They ar
estimated to cost about $4,000.
Losses and damage from forest fire
in Washington this year are less thai
for any other year in the history o
forest fire protection. There has bee1
less ground burned over, less loss t.
standing timber, second growth, logs
logging equipment and other classe
of property than in any year of tn,
past 20 and yet the year was unpre
cedented for fires set by lightning
The total number of fires from thi
and other causes will be well up t,
average.
The heavy rains of the past weel
supplied all that was needed to Civ
the Oregon and Washington cranberr.
district at the mouth of the Columbi,
river one of the finest crops in his
tory, according to leading growers
The rains will serve to swell the be1
ries just before the final ripening, put