White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-24
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

r. H. Kraus, 75, former merchant
and postmaster at Revere, died in his
sleep last week In North Bend.
The Spokane city Jail was quaran-
tined Sunday, following the discovery
Of diphtheria case among the pris-
oners.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
done by a fire which destroyed the
Northern Pacific freight depot at Top
penish.
Samuel A. Mann, 80, justice of the
peace in Spokane, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. A. ]. Walsh, In
Tacoma, where he was visiting.
An increase Of s1,777,965 in the as
sessed valuation of property in Taco
ma and Pierce county is revealed in a
report by A. w. Carr, county assessor.
The annual picnic of members of the
% oranges Of Lewis county will be
held Sunday, Sept 2, at the grove on
Colonel B. w. Coiner's farm at Kos
mos.
Mrs. Eden Nelles of Mount Vernon
was fatally injured Sunday when the
automobile in which she was riding
was struck by car being driven by
John Anderson.
Frank Lenzi claims the record for
Yakima valley wheat production, after
having harvested 106 bushels from
each of the eight acres of his ranch
near Toppenish.
Seattle's total fire loss, both to
buildings and their contents, for the
first six months of 1928, was only
S14s,1O337, one of the lowest records
in Seattle's history.
Fire of undetermined origin did
damage estimated at more than $780,
900 in Sumner and for time men
aced the entire business and industri-
al section of the city.
The Waterville Union Grain COM
pany, with 70 stockholders and cap
ital of $4,000, has declared a Is per
cent dividend, paid all taxes and in
creased it's surplus $4,000.
Because the districts building pro-
gram has Jagged, the Yakima school
board has postponed the opening of
school to September II. 1t was to
have opened September 4.
The plant of the Oregon Packing
company at Vancouver started can
ming pears, and about 400 persons will
be employed for more than two
months on pears and prunes.
Failing to step back far enough to
avoid being sideswiped by the train,
Carl Melin of Seattle was struck by
muck car in the Cascade tunnel at
Scenic and was killed instantly.
Fifteen hundred dollars in prize
money is to be won in rodeo in which
60 horses and Is riders will partici-
pate at the Thurston county fair,
which opens at Tenino Labor day.
Fifty thousand tons Of last years
potatoes are said to be rotting in the
pits in the region between Kennewick
and Pasco. Growers are glad to give
them away to people who will haul
them off.
Walla 'Walla city commissioners let
a contract to Fred Dill for bulkhead.
ing 200 feet on the north bank of Mill
creek east from Roosevelt street for
s5.4S a foot, or less than half the es-
timated cost.
Twenty minutes after o. ]. Banfield,
millman, disappeared from boom at
Everett Monday morning, his lifeless
body was taken from Puget sound. 1t
is thought he slipped and struck his
head on log.
Fifteen grizzly bears in the national
forests of Washington represent the
last stand of this vanishing species
of wild life There remain there also
so head of caribou and possibly 80
mountain sheep.
There has been heavy increase in
the amount of air mail going out OF
Walla Walla since the rate was cut to
5 cents for the first ounce, according
to G. F. Morrow postmaster. The
amount has nearly doubled.
Hosea H. Curtis, pioneer farmer of
Garfield died at hospital in Colfax,
following kick in the abdomen by
horse. He came to the Palouse coun
try in 1881, and with his father, set.
tied on homestead near Garfield
The state department of public
works has denied the application of
the Inland Auto Freight company to
operate truck service from Spokane
to Newport and Cusick on the grounds
that present service is adequate.
Fruit buyers in Walla Walla state
there is a serious shortage Of materia'
for apple boxes to be faced this fall,
and while it is not as serious here as
in other sections Of the northwest II
may bother before the fruit season is
over.
The first shipment of wheat from |
the new Longview grain elevator on
the mort of Kelso docks at LongvieW |
is scheduled to be cleared on the FL