White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-01-06

M. ". (fOpJ 1Tue, TulimaA pAoAOSA
hotel operator and discoverer Of ar
tesian water there, was one of the
guests Of honor at the festivities mark:
Ing the formal opening Of Pullman's
new s165, 900 hotel last week.
Wellington Rupp. chief engineer IN
the state department Of public works
said he had been dismissed from Of
flee last week. Director John c. Den
ny asked him to resign. Rupp said.
"for the good Of the department"
Kenneth Mcleod, 10, died last Tues
day afternoon from wounds suffered
when Deputy Sheriff Lloyd ]. Brice
shot him with a sawed-off shotgun
while Mcleod was attempting to rob
the G. ]. Breier store at Walla Walla-
The Clark county game commission
warns hunters that the season for
shooting migratory birds in Washing
ton closed last Saturday. IA days earli
or than the date fixed by federal law
This amendment to the game code OF
Washington was approved by the leg
lslature last year.
Five Indians jailed for drunkenness
while camped at revival meetings in
the Status church in the Yakima reser.
walton obtained their liquor, according
to officers, by taking pals, shifting
the radiators Of parked cars about the
meeting place and draining those
which smelled of alcohol.
Mike Riggers has been living on
Walla Walla county for five years.
Last week it was found that he was
about as we'll off as most Of the peo-
pie who have been paying for his sup
port at the county farm. Search OF
his clothing revealed $1,000 in cash,
and of his room, about $500.
Yakima potato growers have formed
plans to gather a steamer cargo OF
potatoes to be shipped from Seattle
to the Atlantic coast by steamer via
the Panama canal. They said watel
transportation offered the only prac
tical means of reaching markets, since
their request for reduced rail freigh
rates had been refused.
Twenty-three inches of snow fell a
Lake Keechelus, and heavy falls ais
we're experienced at other storage res
eryoirs around Yakima, according t.
reports to the reclamation office a
Yakima, which said the snow wa
continuing. Snow was reported 81
feet deep in Snoqualmie pass and raj
roads were using rotary plows.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul pas
senger train No. GIL, struck tWo-to
automobile truck at grade crossin
on the Ocean Beach highway abou
six miles west of Chehalis last Thurs
day, demolishing it. The truck wa
thrown about 80 feet and took fir
when it's gasoline tank exploded. Tn
:, driver, pinned under the wreckag
), was burned to a crisp.
Logging and the lumber industry
the Grays harbor district reached i
:. lowest ebb of the year last week. A
! camps and practically all Of the ha
Dor mills were shut down for Il
Christmas season and most OF the
will not open until after the first
the year. A majority of the CANT
u are expected to remain down unit
: the middle or latter part of Januar
Money set aside by the city tn
year for the First street bridge wi
be spent next year, the commissions
of Walla Walla decided when tn
u transferred $4,000 from the budget
III this fund. The city transferred $50
y. last year and has $4,000 in the budg
y for next year. BY building a lo
Il bridge over Mill creek the city W
open First street to travel north
&c Main.
~ An addition of seven rooms to t
- Washington school in Vancouver "
- be ready to occupy when the seco
- semester opens in January, Q.
shumway, city superintendent
II schools, announced. Two rooms, az
d ed to the Lincoln school are occupit
81 These additions will provide ami
o. room in the grade schools for Il
ID year and next, but the high school
overcrowded.
c' Samuel Benn, IS, founder OF Alb
OF deem, was the central figure in q
tc union of the pioneer family Christm
o. day. In the dining room OF the b
"a toric Bonn home the father OF the c
sat at the head Of the table for
lie bountiful Christmas dinner while
as his right and left sat four of his Il
m daughters and his son, e. B. Bel
he United States marshal for the weste
m Washington district.