White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-01

idly on the mill buildings. although
no machinery has been installed as
yet.
Seattle will be headquarters for the
recognized and enlarged West Coast
Lumbermen's association, under the
direction of Col. w. B. Greeley, former
United States forester, now secretary
manager of the association, it was an
nounced by J. D. Tennent, Longview,
president.
Telephone messages from the town
of Naches, IL miles northwest of Yaki-
ma, reported that the town was burn
ing. Several garages and stores were
in flames, the whole business district
was threatened, and the entire male
population was making fight to save
the town, the message said.
Donald Ensley, IA, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. G. Ensley of Onalaska, is in
a Chehalis hospital dangerously hurt
when he was gored by bull. The
brute tore through a fence from a
pasture in which it was confined,
charged the boy and cut his body bad
ly before the lad was rescued.
June was announced as the date
for Centralia's annual rose show, to
be held under the auspices of the Civic
club. Ribbons will be awarded for
first, second and third places. A floral
display will be held in connection with
the show, in which special attention
will be paid to flowers other than
roses.
The Southwest Library association
held its annual convention in Contra
liza last week and elected Mrs. Eva
Henderson of South Bend president
for the coming year; Miss Hazel Lewis
Of Puyallup, vice-president, and Mrs.
Lester Byrd, Kelso, secretary. Next
years meeting will be held at Ho-
GUAM.
Jack Sibel, 10, a messenger, was
near death in a hospital in Walla Wal
la from serious burns he received
when his motorcycle burst into flames
and crashed into curb. The fire
is believed to have started when the
storage battery generator burned out
and the overheated motor of the ma
chine ignited the gasoline.
Refusal of the government to con-
tinue payments of tuition for Indian
children attending schools in reserva-
ton districts will affect about $4,000
to $4,000 which certain districts have
received. The governments attitude
is said to be based on a clause in the
state constitution binding the state to
furnish free education to all children.
There are Sc libraries in the state
of Washington with 1,O21, 900 books on
their shelves and an annual circula-
ton of 100000, j. M. Hit, state
librarian announced recently. Mr..
Hit said 100000 of the books are in
the Seattle library, 10000 in the Ia
coma and $4,000 in Spokane. Twelve
of the 80 counties in the state have no
| libraries.
On application of the Weyerhaeus-
er Timber company for purchase of
the timber on state school lands at
the headwaters of the Skookumchuck
river, certified report appraising the
timber at $254,309 was filed with the
Thurston county auditors office by
Land Commissioner Clark V. Savidge.
The appraisal was said to be the larg-
est in the history of the county.
The Washington highway committee
set June IL as the date for conference
with the Oregon highway commission
and Multnomah county commissioners
on plans for purchase and freeing of
the interstate toll bridge between
| Portland and Vancouver. Under a
tentative agreement Washington and
| Oregon will acquire the bridge from
Clark and lhultnomah counties in time
.
Dustless highways are to be real
ity in eastern Washington, was the
assurance brought to Walla Walla re-
Gently by G. w. Clausen, state auditor
and chairman of the highway commits
sion. Contract has been let for oiling
the 341h-mile stretch between Pasco
and Lowden, and will be completed
before August /. Much of the road
between Pasco and Yakima is paved
ma is to be oiled.
The $4,000 lighting fixture for the
rotunda of the new capitol at Olympia
was in position IS feet from the floor,
after workmen had spent two days
raising it with lotion block and tack
lie. 1t has taken three weeks to as
semble the fixture. The fixture is
feet inches in diameter and 20
feet high, bullying in the center like
golden balloon. The fixture was
made in the Tiffany studios in New
| York and took more than a year to
complete.
The new system of having an ap-
praised value to start bids on property
acquired by Klickitat county in de-
fault of tax payments, when put up
for sale at public auction, is proving
profitable to the taxpayers, according
to County Treasurer MCGUIRE. About
lr1H Il 1.