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

ing to Charles Maybury, director Of
licenses. The plates have orange
background with black numerals.
Henry McKelvey and two sons
Philip, 10, and George, 8, of Neah Bay
were drowned in the Strait of Juan
de Fuca off Koitlap point, near Neah
Bay, when an Indian canoe in which
they were fishing became swamped
Extension of 60 days from August
~ has been granted by Chief Justice
Kenneth Macintosh of the supreme
court to e. M. Pratt, new attorney for
Wallace c. Gaines, for filing petit.
ton for rehearing before the high
court, the chief justice announced.
Judge George B. Simpson denied a
motion for a new trial filed by Luther,
Ellis and Lewis ("Ted") Baker, who
were found guilty of murder in the
first degree for Staying Sheriff Lester
M. Wood, as he was approaching a
still they were operating in the Dole
valley.
An electric wire is believed to have
caused stubborn blaze which broke
out in the basement Of the &C. c.
Store" in Vancouver last week, and
worked through into the Interstate
Bindery adjoining, doing an estimated
100000 damage, $4,000 being to the
bindery firm.
The Chehalis Westminster Presby-
terrain church held an anniversary
service last Sunday, commemorating
the fiftieth year Of it's organization in
Chehalis. The actual history of the
church goes back to 1855, but it was
not until 1877 that the church became
identified with Chehalis.
With the price of the variety ruling
above SO box, heavy returns will be
realized this season by the Mount
Adams Farm company, which owns
the Pacific northwest's largest acre
age Of d'Anjou pears. A crop of 40 900
boxes Of d'Anjous is expected from the
Mount Adams farm, located near Gill
mer.
Theodore Peterson, AZ, farmer in
the Burton district, near Vancouver,
is suffering from three revolver
wounds and Harry Bradley, a neigh
Dor, is in the Clark county Jail as
result of quarrel over a harrow,
which the two are reported to have
purchased in partnership several years
ago.
Engineers will leave New York for
Tacoma in two weeks to start con-
struction of 12O-ton pulp mill on the
tideflats there for the Union Bag and
Paper corporation to handle waste
from hemlock sawmilI to be erected
by the st. Paul C Tacoma Lumber
company. The com bined projects will
represent an investment of S5,O00,OOO.
With the rush for auto drivers Ii.
censes over, Director Charles r. May.
bury has dismissed most of the extra
force engaged for this work. Records
show that 100000 licenses have been
issued since July 5, an average of $500
a day. On some days 10000 to $4,000
licenses were written and mailed, set.
ting new mark for speed, Maybury
said.
The Pacific highway between To.
ledo and Grays Hall will be under traf
fic control for three months, starting
September l, according to announce
ment by the state highway engineer.
One-half of the highway will be closed
at time while paving operations are
under way. A shoulder of crushed
rock will be provided to take care of
one-way traffic.
On bids approximating 100000 the
state highway committee last week
awarded eight highway construction
and improvement contracts, six of
which had been delayed since early
last May. Two paving contracts, one
on the Sunset highway between Falls
City and North Bend and the other on
the Pacific highway in Snohomish
county, were among those delayed
which were awarded.
The crop yield in the Kittitas Valley
this year will be almost $1,000, 900
greater than in 1925, according to an
estimate prepared by County Agent
w. l.. Davis. The heaviest increase is
in the potato crop, which last year,
with $50 acres sown, netted growers
100000. This year 1000 acres were
planted to spuds, and the crop is ex-
pected to be worth nearly $7OO,OOO, or
more If the price stiffens
The incompleted 1927 season, up to
and including last Sunday, has exceed
ed all previous seasons in the history
Of Rainier national park in point Of
travel, it was announced by govern
ment statisticians. A total of 1927
people and 42,S92 automobiles was
reached on that day, as compared with
173,004 people and 1880 cars, the
total for the whole of the season of
1925, when Rainier led all other Amer
lean national parks in attendance.
Harvesting of the Bartlett pear crop
has commenced IN the Zelda district,
southeast Of Ridgefield, and will be