White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12

MIS-. Henry ShultZ or Newport was
killed and her husband suffered prob
ably fatal injuries recently when the
automobile in which they were riding
collided with a truck parked on the
edge Of the road without lights.
County Game Warden Winslow re.
ports that he has just liberated a ship
ment of 600 China pheasant on four Of
the five game preserves in Grays Har.
Dor county. The birds were raised on
the pheasant farm at Silverton, Ore.
With the autumn freshet season at
hand, the construction crew at the
Queets river bridge site is rushing the
work of pouring concrete for the span
piers. A cable tramway 1000 feet long
has been constructed for carrying ce.
ment to the central piers.
Bears are reported mer and
bold in the Hazel Dell district, north.
west of Longview. An orchard belong
ing to Scott Hepler, and situated at
some distance from the Hepler resi-
dence, was stripped of apples and
prunes during the last week, it is re-
ported.
Lewis county seems to have an Or
ganized gang of stock thieves. Lewis
Skinner Of Ajlune lost one young heif-
er, hauled off alive, and a neighbor
lost two young animals, both of which
were slaughtered. Adam Wackerbarth
of Adna lost two fine hogs which were
trucked away.
The department of public works set
October 81 as the date of hearing at
Chehalis on the complaint Of patrons
Of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company. The residents of the two
cities are asking elimination of the
telephone toll charges between Cen
tralia and Chehalis.
e. W. Wagner, cashier of the Farm
ers' National bank at Colfax, was shot
in the back by an unidentified assail-
ant as he was preparing to retire.
Wagner said he heard a noise outside
and Immediately afterward his wife
saw the flash Of a gun. Wagner has
a chance for recovery.
The large wheat warehouse at Man
Mfg on the electric branch Of the
Great Northern, five miles northwest
of Colfax, collapsed from the weight
of thousands of sacks Of wheat which
were piled in the warehouse. The
house was 1875 feet in length and about
100 feet of it broke down.
Rain came too late in Clark county
to increase the yield Of late potatoes,
except in a few localities where they
were planted late, but the downpour
was welcome as it will harden the tub
ers and fit them for digging, growers
say. Rain and a frost to kill the tops
are necessary before the potato har.
vest can be started.
Postal receipts at Chehalis ending
September go were $%10,165.17, COM
pared to $967O.74 for the same quarter
last year. This is the first time that
receipts in Chehalis have passed the
10000 mark in the third quarter of
the year, and the first year that the
first three quarters receipts have each
time exceeded $4,000.
Pursued by an enraged mother bear,
Julius Schultz, who lives in the Dune
gan mountain region in northern Clark
county, owes his life to his dog, who
so worried the bear that Schultz was
able to reach his home nearly one
mile from where the chase started.
The dog. had freed a bear cub and
Schultz was standing ear the tree
when the old bear appeared.
A new grange organization was per-
fected recently at Bickleton, in east
ern Klickitat county, with So charter
members. Frank P. Waters, who holds
a medal given by the national grange
master for organization work, has
been in the vicinity for a week stir.
ring up interest in grange work. This
is the first grange in the extreme
east end of Klickitat county.
Final returns from shipments of
White Salmon valley apples to Eng
land last year indicate that fruit pack.
ed under the "Glacier Brand of the
Mount Adams Nurseries, grown in
orchards at Husum, in the upper
White Salmon valley fruit belt, netted
o%rchardists the best price received for
all shipments from either the Hood
River or White Salmon districts.
Jack rabbits circumvented a woven.
wire rabbit-tight fence around 100
acres of alfalfa on the farm of John
Newquist, in the irrigated farming dis.
trict of the lower Status creek valley,
adjoining the eastern Klickitat coun.
ty dry-farming district on the north,
and did much damage to the crop.
The more athletic rabbits hurdled over
the top and the weaker ones burrowed
under the wire.
The kennewick Valley Telephone
company is putting up a new office
building in kennewick. 1t will be 25
by 40.fset and is located on the main
highway to Yakima. The open wires
are being taken down and underground
cables constructed.
In cities of less than 75.O0O popu