White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-11-04

udle laSL year, County treasurer Fen
der said. A total of 1901, O46.92 re.
mains to be collected out of total
roll of $1.163,S19.66.
The first step toward providing a
highway connection for the Willow
Grove district, 15OO-acre tract of land
seven miles west of Longview on the
Columbia river, was started last week
when Deputy County Engineer Davolt
made a survey for the most feasible
route.
Five of Yakima's prettiest girls,
wearing sashes with chamber of COM
MERGE and Northern Pacific railroad
insignias around their white uniforms
will give Yakima apples to 200 day
light Northern Pacific passengers who
will pass through Yakima during Ma.
tional Apple week.
Alexander & Mcneil, Mount Vernon
contracting firm, completed the 31a.
mile stretch of standard pavement on
the Ocean Beach highway west OF
Adna last Thursday. Completion of
this job gives ten. miles Of full width
pavement to point ten miles west
Of Chehalis on the Ocean Beach high
way.
Proposal to have the westbound air
mail planes stop at Walla Walla daily
on their way to Pasco is favored by
John P. Bell, manager Of the Pasco-
Boise-Salt Lake air line of the Var
ney company, postmaster Cyrus F..
Morrow stated recently. The air mail
has increased $50 per cent out of
Walla Walla.
Two robbers, one wearing a conduc-
tors cap, held up A. e. Wild, station
master of car barn in Seattle, and
escaped with $4,000 in cash and $4,000
car tokens, valued at 81 cents each.
The robbers missed a haul Of $4,000
by few minutes, as the weekend col
lections had been taken away short
time earlier.
Weather has been such that work
on the Lowden-W Whitman paving job,
five-mile stretch, will be completed
by November is, it was stated in
Walla Walla recently. The pavement
is on new cutoff road on the main
Inland Empire highway. The state
is preparing the road from Touchet
to the Burbank bridge for oiling next
spring.
Several additional mining claims
have been located in the Crawford
district, near Vancouver, making a
total of 40. Development work has
not reached stage where 1t can be
determined definitely whether or not
gold exists in paying quantities in
the quartz. Samples Of the ore are
said to have assayed as high as
$1,000 ton.
Two horses owned by ]. N. Kline Of
Minnehaha were killed last week when
they fell into an abandoned we'll on
the place of John Pegg, four miles
northeast Of Vancouver. Kline had
rented the place and was blowing in
the field where the well, which was
covered with boards and dirt, was To-
Gated. The first horse fell in back
ard and drew the second after it.
Bones Of some giant animal, prob.
ably of prehistoric times, which no
one there is able to identify, were
found by Elton Armstrong in the mud
on lower North river, near Raymond.
Armstrong brought the massive head
and the two long lower jaw bones into
Raymond for display. He said that
the whole skeleton, as nearly as he
could tell, would measure 80 or 40
feet long.
Land owners in the Gardena section
filed formal request with the Walla
Walla county commissioners to per.
nit the formation of an irrigation dis
trict to take over the holdings of the
Walla Walla Irrigation company and
repair the pipeline. The company is
unable to do this 1t was stated and
the line is in such condition that 1t
may break and cut off some 1900
acres from water.
The banks of Chelan county gained
nearly $1,000,000 in deposits between
June 80 and October 10, according to
statements. On June 30 total depos.
its were s6,518,284 and 80 days later
they had increased to s7,508,5S7. Ev.
cry portion of the county showed
gratifying increase in deposits, as
we'll as in, resources. At the same
time the banks show reduction in
the items Of loans and discounts.
Lynden's two banks are leading the
financial institutions of Whatcom
county outside Of Bellingham in
march towards. prosperity, with the
largest deposits in their history. On
the official call for October 10, de.
posts in the local banks totalled
$937,37707, the highest mark yet
reached there, while the total Of the
rural banks Of tho county advanced
to a new high point Of $2,878, 704.03.
Prince William OF Sweden was vel
coined to Yakima last week by cheer.
ing crowd at the Northern Pacific sta.
ton. He was introduced by A. M.
Johnson and told the gathering In
flawless English, "I'm glad to see YOU.