White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-10-14


which s6O48 must be raised by taxa
ton.
The new $4,000 Proctor street
bridge, forming valuable link in the
development Of communication be-
tween Tacoma and vashon island, was
formally dedicated Friday afternoon
and opened to traffic Saturday.
R. B. (Scotty) Hamil, after brutally
numbering his wife Thursday night.
walked five miles to Kennewick and
told Night Policeman W. H. Howe that
he had killed her with a monkey
wrench and should be locked up.
T. Nagabuchi and l. Takawa. Japan
esq section hands at the railroad camp
OF Schafer Brothers Logging company
In the Satsop valley. were killed last
week when they fell from trailer be
hind speeder on the logging road.
The Washington state knights OF
Pythias grand lodge and the Pythian
Sister grand assembly closed their
annual three.day sessions in Kelso last
week. selecting Seattle as their 1928
meeting place and electing officers.
Postoffice thieves at Kennewick
forced the locks Cd the mail boxes
and took out the mail and opened It,
They were after money, as the torn
and scattered letters and checks found
indicated Some money was obtained.
The old Nimms building in Cosmo
polls. one OF the early-day landmarks
of Grays Harbor county. was destroy
ed by fire last week. The blaze ragged
for four hours and for time threat
| ened block OF business buildings
r. ]. Baade has been denied Ger
tificate from the department of public
works authorizing freight service by
auto stage between Quincy and We
nstcbee, on the grounds that public
With an increase in the current ex.
pense budget of $11,943. mostly to pro
vide for the general election of next
year. the 1928 budgets we're formally
approved last Monday by the Thurston
| county missioners. The general
county levy was kept at 81 mills.
The Cowlitz county budget for 1929
will raise S236596 for current ex-
penses, an increase Of $4,000 over 1927,
due to $4,000 for election expenses.
An S-mill levy will be made again this
year. the surplus being employed by
pay off outstanding current expense
warrants.
A tax levy of % mills on property in
old Vancouver and 21.5 mills in great
er Vancouver. will be necessary to
raise sufficient funds to carry the city
government through 1925 This is 21A
mills higher than last year, due to the
fact that the dock sinking fund was
$4,000 in the red.
Knight remplars of southeastern
Washington gathered at Walla Walla
last week and celebrated the forty
fifth anniversary of the founding of
Washington Commandery No. of that
city. The Washington Commandery
was the first established in what is
now Washington state.
Two more Lewis county postmasters
have recently rendered their resigna-
tons Unless volunteers are found at
an early date to fill the vacancies, the
department will probably close both
offices. One is at Littell where A
b. Carson is retiring, the other al
Montgreen, on Green Mountain, neal
Rife. where Frank Heldreth is post
master.
A young buck deer, apparently flee
Ing from some wild animal, was caught
by two members of a Poison Logging
company train crew near Humptulips
The deer collapsed in the right-of-waJ
of the track near the train and the two
men. l.. A. Briggs and Fay Marsh
, put it in the caboose and took it tt
the railroad camp. 1t has become
QulLe tame.
. total of s1SS.573 70 in state pro
perty will be sold November 1. Clarl
V. Savidge state land commissioner
announced recently. Timber appraised
at $118.60410 and sand and gravel a
. s4105 will be sold for cash, but tid'
and shore lands valued at $18,761.7
and other land at $47,102.95 may b.
purchased on the ten-year paymen
plan with interest at per cent OF
/, deferred payments. Commissioner Saw
idge announced.
Recommendation that the process o
wiping apples, heretofore in vogue, b
permitted instead of requiring then
;, TO be washed before being placed o.
the market, was telegraphed the de
!. partment of agriculture at Washing
ton by five United States senators
, from Wenatchee last week. The tele
Il gram was signed by Senators Phipp
8 Of Colorado McNary of Oregon, Ker
4 drick of Wyoming and Jones and Di
y Of Washington. and by Representative
Hill of Washington.
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