White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS Of INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

by Tacoma citizen VINO refused 10
allow his name to become known.
Fifteen single-comb White Leghorn
hens, valued at $3.50, were shipped
to four different foreign countries by
the Tancred Breeding Farms at Kent.
J. E. Hutchinson, "a, pioneer Wash
ington residents and leading figure in
fraternal circles at Aberdeen for the
past 81 years, died at his Wishkah
Valley home.
Knute Benson, mechanic, was in
stantly killed at Spokane when car
he was driving plunged over steep
embankment onto the Northern Pa
cific tracks.
Hugh l.. Bannon, 80, who served
with the South Carolina militia in the
Confederate army during the Civil war,
died recently at Bellingham, passing
away in his sleep.
To foreclose a mortgage, the Poison
Logging company Of Hoquiam has fill
ed suit fir s438,572.36 against the Ar
quetite Products company in superior
court at Hoquiam.
-Four picture frames loaded with mar
cotics valued at $4,000 landed Wong
zee Bong, Detroit laundryman, in Jail
when he attempted to smuggle them
into the city of Seattle.
Residents of Orchards and Burton
school districts have petitioned the
Clark county superintendent for per-
mission to consolidate. The election
will probably be held November 10.
Fire, believed to have started from
a furnace in brooder house, destroy
ed $50 chickens, 10 tons of straw and
a large supply Of fuel on the farm Of
T. B. Miller, near Harmony, Clark
county
The trial Of K. X. Kyler, ex-guard at
the Northern State hospital for the in
sane at Sedro-Woolley, ended at Mount
Vernon when Judge Joiner directed
the jury to return verdict Of &C.
Quittal.
A Walla Walla herd dairy associa-
ton is being formed for testing cows,
the service to include Walla Walla,
Benton and Franklin counties. Six
hundred COWS have been signed for the
association.
becoming serious pest in Yakima
county, and farmers, under supervision
of County Agent Lovett, are laying
plans for an intensive campaign
against them.
Ten Leghorn hens from the Port An
geles poultry farm recently won an
egg-laying contest at Stephensville,
Texas, laying 1852 eggs in 81 weeks.
The hens were sold to Fort Worth
banker for $1,000.
A. N. Herrold, ,cannery superintend-
ent, drove into Bellingham recently
with a two-point deer in his machine.
The animal had leaped from the brush,
plunged through the windshield and
died from broken neck.
One of the major ,000-candle
power beacon lights to be established
by the government on the Portland to
Seattle airway will be in Longview,
providing the city will take over and
operate the flying field.
The Austin company won contract
to build the Clark county general hos
pital on bid of $4,000, it was an
nounced at Vancouver recently. Work
will be started in about ten days and
the building will be completed in Feb.
Tuary.
A government aviation expert is ex-
pected in South Bend in November to
investigate the possibility of locating
an airport between South Bend and
Raymond. In case the site is found
satisfactory, an effort will be made to
have it purchased by the Willapa Har-
Dor port commissioners.
The first carload of Kennewick-
grown lettuce was shipped to the coast
by the Yakima Fruit G Cold Storage
company recently. This is the first
season lettuce has been grown here in
quantities, and it is finding ready
market. Car lots will go out regularly.
and also smaller shipments.
The plant of the Pacific Coast Linen
mills at Vancouver will be in operation
within two months, according to a re-
port issued recently. Three of the big
motors have been driving the machin-
cry in test runs and when necessary
adjustments have been made the plant
will be ready for operating.
A tremendous increase in registra-
ton over the 1924 general election
registration is forecast in statistics re-
ceived in Olympia by Superintendent
of Elections F. H. Gloyd. In some
counties it is as high as 80 per cent.
Ronald Miller, S-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Miller, was injured
when he set off some dynamite caps.
One arm was burned, and he will lose
the sight of one eye. Ronald said that
the caps were given to him by an older
boy who told him to set them off and
"have some fun"
Like the pot of gold at the foot Of