White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-09

With fewer apples to be marketed
than were on hand one year ago, and
record Of large shipments during
February, the Yakima market reflects
an increased confidence that all re.
naming stocks will be disposed of
early before the close Of the shipping
season.
Salary increases that will add about
$17500 to the annual payroll Of the
Seattle school district were granted
principals and other school executives
by the school board last week. The
increase will average 5000 a year for
those involved and will be effective at
the beginning of the September term.
The morbid interest of 16-year-old
high school boy in electric chairs,
combined with an incomplete knowl-
edge Of how dangerous electricity may
be, resulted in the electrocution of
Kenneth F. Brooks Of Spokane, last
week. Young Brooks was found dead
in an electric chair Of his own manu-
facture.
Bank clearings in February were
the largest for that month in the his
tory Of Spokane, according to e. X.
Barnes, assistant cashier of the Fidel-
ity National bank, who is manager of
the Spokane Clearing House associa-
ton. The figures were $4,000, 741, as
compared with s45,177,679 in Febru.
airy, 1927.
Bright sunshine last Sunday lured
motorists and toll receipts on the in.
terstate bridge at Vancouver mounted
to s1832.95 collected from 1850 per-
sons, 1909 large automobiles, 1875
two-passenger cars and 80 motor
cycles. This was considerable gain
over the average Sunday receipts dur
ing the winter months.
Canned goods and distributing in
terests Of the northwest told repre-
sentatives Of the interstate commerce
commission in Spokane last week that
railroad freight rates on canned goods
were already unreasonably high, and
that rate increases proposed by the
carriers were entirely out of line with
rates for other commodities.
Some 500 clam diggers and several
score Of cannery workers were on
their toes for the opening of the annu-
al clam season. Digging started at
daylight March g. Five Grays harbor
canneries will operate in clans. -Four
of these are at the beaches, with the
industry conferred at Grayland on the
south side, and Copalis on the north.
Twenty wornout automobiles of var
ious makes and ancient vintage went
up in smoke at Aberdeen last week in
a spectacular bonfire arranged on
hill overlooking the city. ALI the deal
ers in town contributed to the pyre.
Some of the machines wheezed their
were towed there on their final ride.
The city commission of Centralia
has adopted resolution requesting
the state department of public works
to order the Pacific Telephone & Tel
egraph company to establish free
service between Centralia and Che
halls. 1t is claimed that Centralia
and Chehalis are Disseminated against
in that other cities similarly situated
have free service.
Home Valley farm, near Carson,
Skamania county, was decided to the
Washington Childrens Home society
by "Mother" Miller, full-blooded In
dian woman, who died last fall at the
age of 80 years, Rev. G. H. Quigley,
district superintendent of the associa-
ton, said. The deed was given five
years ago, and the society provided
for her until she died.
Struck by falling tree, Phyllis Mel
son, 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Nelson of Des Moines,
was almost instantly killed at Miller's
landing, near Des Moines, south of
Seattle. Reports to the coroner's Of
flee said that the child was sitting on
a log when the tree her father and
another man were telling toppled in
the opposite direction from that the
choppers had intended.
After a conference between the
bureau of public roads officials and
the state highway committee, the for
est roads program calling for the ex-
penditure of $263,OO0 by the federal
government during 1928 was approved
at Olympia last week. In the projects
are the Metaline highway north of
Metaline Falls, $4,000; Lake Chelan
road, $4,000; Randle to Yakima high
way, $4,000, and Stevens Pass high
way, $4,000. Comparatively the state
and the bureau of public roads will
spend $4,000 on an extension of the
Randle- Yakima construction, the state
contributing $4,000 and the federal
government $5U,OOO.
That additional units Of the Long
view Fiber company plant are plan
ned as future development in that
city was the announcement made by
M. A. Wertheimer of New York city,
at public gathering at Hotel Month
cello in Longview.
J. F. Ellis, police chief of Hoquiam,