White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

SOs hS00Ot Ss
John ]. Rudkin, 81, receiver of the
First National bank of Pasco. died last
week in the Pasco hospital.
The longest log train ever to arrive
In Bellingham rolled into that city re-
Gently with rs cars containing 6OO,-
900 feet of logs.
Roland Prather, s., was struck by
an automobile and killed as he was
walking on the Bucoda highway north
of the city limits.
Directories just published by r. l..
Polk & Co. estimate the population Of
Tacoma at 137,750, Bellingham at A.
637, and Everett $4,000.
The Spokane Interstate fair earned
a profit of between $4,000 and $4,000
at its 1928 fair, according to report
Of Thomas S. Griffith. 1.-The president.
N. e. Dob1e was crushed severely
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while working at the Hammond Lum-
Der company logging camp east of
Kelso.
p. D. Schmidt, manager of the Unit
ed States employment office at Wenat-
chez, reports that during October he
sent 247O men to jobs in Wenatchee
valley.
E. w. Wagner, cashier of the Farm
ers National bank, who was shot in
the back October by an unknown
assailant, is convalescing at his home
in Colfax.
With an increase during the year of
$550,000, agriculture, dairying and
allied industries of Snohomish coun.
ty have reached an annual value of
s9,3OO,OoO.
An effort to consolidate the Orch
ards and Burton school districts in
Clark county failed. The vote in Bur
ton district was four to one against
consolidation.
At special school election in We.
natchee recently the voters approved
a bond issue of $245,OOO for the cree
ton of a junior high school. The vote
was 535 to 1877.
Everett now has seven-day-a-week
newspaper, the first edition of the
Sunday Morning Herald, published by
Mrs. Gertrude Best, appearing recent
ly with 60 pages.
The Toledo city council has decid-
ed to call a speciol election to vote on
the question of issuing $4,000 worth
of bonds for the rebuilding of the
city's water system.
Fire. which started from an over
heated stove in barber shop Sunday
morning destroyed the entire business
section of Grotto in King county, caus.
ing a loss of $4,000.
Miss Lynn Landau, %, home eco.
nomics teacher in the Mossyrock
SCuOOlS, has 1OSO1fOu WIN ldceC oA1S
is the sole heir to $275,OOO estate left
her by an uncle in Illinois.
BY a vote of 1877 to /, stockholders
of the Northwest Washington Fair as
sociation have decided to turn over
the assets and liabilities of the asso
citation to Whatcom county.
Mrs. Lucille Mcdonald, 80, died at
Bellingham last Monday from poison.
She asked her 7-year-old daughter to
get her some headache tablets and the
child delivered poison by mistake.
Suit to recover $4,000 claimed to
have been pledged by William H..
Glass, Seattle capitalist, has been filed
in superior court at Seattle by the
College Of Puget Sound at Tacoma.
King county voters at the recent
election approved three improvement
bond issues calling for the expenditure
of $3,930,O00 Financing new county
hospital was given the heaviest vote.
Building permits were issued in
Wenatchee during the first 10 months
of 1923 for new construction valued
at S1,164,S90, breaking the record for
any 10 months in the history of the
city.
Incorporation papers have been exc
cuted for the new 100000 Palouse
Pulp & Paper company at Palouse.
The capacity of the mill will be 20
tons q day, and 80 men will be en-
ployed.
A posse of Great Northern tunnel
workers, headed by Elmer Thackston,
deputy sheriff, combed the Skykomish-
Scenic region for two bandits who
held up the A. Guthrie & Co. recrea-
tion hall at Scenic and escaped with
$1,000 in cash and pay checks. The
bandits were unmasked and held up
the crowded hall Is minutes after
Thackston had left.
With one leg torn by an accidental
shot from his own gun, while hunting
deer in the Occur d'Alene district, Ida
no. Albert M. Warren of Yakima died
from exposure and loss of blood before
his son, Clifford, his companion on
the expedition, could get assistance.
Mrs. V. l. Tucker, wife of the prin-
cipal of the Hover school near Ken
newick, was accidentally killed last
week. She was getting clothes from
c1oCot. cholf opd kuOpkad down a