White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-06

Paul Rand, student at Walla Walla
college, was fined S25 Friday on
charge of shooting pheasant out of
season and 81 for operating an auto
mobile without a 1928 license.
The Elma chamber of commerce
entertained 200 farmers at the an
nual farmer dinner Monday. Frank
H. Lamb, president Of the Washing.
ton state chamber of commerce,
spoke.
Ladybugs by the gunnysacks full
millions of them-were gathered near
Yakima recently by residents Of Yak
ina to be used in their orchards in
an attempt to exterminate aphides
and like pests. The brilliant little
beetles were found in solid masses
on pine cones and under leaves.
All farm work in Clark county is
being delayed by rain and there is
little demand for seed, dealers report.
Farmers have been blowing on the
high lands but lowlands are under
water. Garden truck and early local
potatoes will be late this year because
Of the delayed planting, farmers say
Marking completion of half of the
three-mile tunnel, through which co.
100000 gallons of water will be con-
veyed daily from Wynooche river to
Aberdeen, two crews of miners broke
through and met after working to-
ward each other four months. Engi-
neering calculations proved exactly
true.
The state highway committee is
sued call for bids for 81 miles Of
grading, clearing and draining on the
Ocean Beach highway, Eagle cliff
east, in. Wahkiakum and Cowlitz
counties. It is estimated that the
project will cost in the vicinity of
100000. The bids are returnable
April "a.
Wool growers of the Walla Walla
section are selling their product at
a higher price than in 1927, accord.
ing to recent announcement. Several
clips have been sold at 80 cents a
pound, compared to "a and rs cents
last year. Landing conditions are
also satisfactory and good prices are
anticipated.
Washington's accumulation of more
than $4O,0OO,O0O in bonds, securities
and cash was successfully trans
ferred last week from the temporary
treasury to huge vaults in the new
$7,O00,0OO capitol. More than 20 mem.
bers of the highway patrol, equipped
with sidearms, and other state en-
ployes, stood guard.
Six police dogs and several silver
foxes burned to death last week at
the Alma Briggs fox farm on the Pa.
cific highway north of CAROLS when
fire, believed to have started from a
heating stove in the dog kennels, de
stroyed them and spread to the fox
pens. The dogs were tied SO that
they could not get away.
The Burbank irrigation district il
Franklin county, which went "broke'
three years ago, may be rehabilitatet
with some loss to the bondholders
Engineers Langloe and Logan recon
mended that the district be cut from
| 10000 acres to 1900 acres, and that
bondholders absorb shrinkage in
their investments to facilitate rehab
ilitation.
| Percy Sturgeon, garage owner al
Orchards, was knocked down and
bruised last week by lightning as he
was using an acetylene torch in his
garage. Mrs. Clark and five of theil
children were severely shocked b!
an electric current that followed al
electric light wire which was con
nected with their house, north O
| Orchards.
Five crab fishing boats were smash
ed by the storm last week at Toxic
land, on the upper arm of Willaps
bay. Two of the boats were battered
into the Tokeland wharf, where the.
sank. Two others were cast up OF
the beach. Owing to damage to the
wharf the Tokeland-South Bend ferr!
was off schedule for the first time il
five years.
A fine of 81 minute was assessed
by Superior Judge Malcolm Douglas
in Seattle against Deputy Prosecutor
Ralph A. Hammer, when the attorne.
delayed court proceedings by being
seven minutes late. The judge sale
members of the prosecutors office
have never been known to be on time
and that he had stood it as long a!
he intended to.
The seat of government of the stat'
of Washington was housed last weel