White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-20

day in each of the IA precincts. The
present registration is only $50. Last
year it was 1898.
Twelve hundred barrels of cold
pack strawberries, about one-quarter
of the pack this year, have been ship
ped by the Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation from the cold storage
plant in Vancouver.
Frank Robson, "a, Lethbridge, Alta,
hanged himself in the county Jail at
Davenport. He was awaiting remov-
al to the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla to serve from one to rs years
for second degree burglary.
The Israel Erbes Orchard company
Of Dayton, largest apple growers in
the Touchet valley, have under con.
struction a packing house and cold
storage plant on the site Of their old
plant destroyed by fire a year ago.
Friday, July 20, has been set aside
as the annual field day at the irriga-
ton branch experiment station near
Prosser. The program will include in
spection and discussion of the expert
mental work at the station, a COM
munity picnic, and an afternoon of en-
tertainment.
The safe that was stolen from the
Thrift store at Twenty-first and Main
street, Vancouver, was found on the
Studor place about four miles north
of the city. 1t had been opened with
a sledge hammer and all the money
taken. Some checks and valuable pa
pers were left.
The state highway committee award
ed four contracts totaling $186,000 for
highway and bridge construction. The
Nisqually overhead crossing on the
Pacific highway near Olympia, which
has been the scene Of numerous acct
dents, is to be replaced with modern
bridge costing $64,725.
A theory that the malady that had
devasted one or more cattle herds
on the Yakima reservation might be
anthrox was dispelled when reports of
meteorological tests were made. Vet
erinarians said they were satisfied
that the cattle had been poisoned by
eating larkspur or lupine.
The superintendent of the expert
ment station at Long Beach has In
vited Pacific county farmers to in
spect the blueberries under test at
his station. The BURBERRY industry
is known only in the east at present,
but he is of the opinion that several of
the varieties under test have a fu-
ture in Pacific county.
An investigation was launched at
Sedro Woolley into the death of John
Hersford, a former patient in the
Northern hospital for the insane, who
died following an alleged brutal beat
ing by guard last week. Relatives
claim Hersford was beaten to death
when a guard mistook him for another
inmate who had attacked guard.
Edward Elkins, IS, resident of
Troutlake, fell firm what is known
as the Cathcart bridge, across the
White Salmon, on the Troutdale road,
Thursday, and was killed. The river
is very swift at this point and the
canyon deep. Elkins fell 80 feet. He
was one of crew of men employed
in rebuilding the bridge across the
| White Salmon river.
An airplane wedding and an air
plane crash on the same day was the
experience of Lieutenant Jack Rose
forest patrol aviator. Rose was mar
ried in Spokane's first aerial wedding
over the city in the morning to Miss
Doris Pritchard. Soon after landing
he took off on his regular forest pa
troll over the Bitter Root mountains
of Idaho and later crashed near St
Joe.
Bids will be opened in the Ellens
burg office of the United States bur.
eau of reclamation August for con.
struction of IA miles of the south
branch Of the Kittitas high line canal
Thirty-eight miles are already under
construction and the work is estimated
at rs per cent completed. The entire
project, with water supply, will cost
100000 and will irrigate 72,0O(
acres of land.
The six permanent funds of the state
treasury showed an increase OF 81,
195,953.S0 in cash resources according
to quarterly report issued by
Charles w. Hinton, assistant state
treasurer. The six funds which tota
$26,060,259.28 have accumulated in
creases of nearly 100000 since 1925
indicating gain for the year of onl!
$621,2S4.27. The increase for 1926 wal
$1,126,540, while for 1927 the repor
shows it was $1,135,336. Division o
this years total shows $24,396.776.5'
is in bonds and s1,663,4S in cash
with transactions carried on will
these funds in the quarter between
March 81 and June 80 netting an in
crease of $295,437.
Lumber shipments from Grays har
Dor during the six-month period end
ed June 80, exceeded 5OO,OO00OO boart
feet, according to w. H. Peters, man