White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-07
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

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G. Mills by a majority of 2s2 votes.
The 18th traffic fatality at Seattle
this year was registered recently when
Ben Christensen, 60, died of injuries
suffered when struck by an automo-
bile.
William A. Stewart, former King
county deputy sheriff, was fined 500
and sentenced to 100 days in Jail when
found guilty at Seattle of operating
still.
Twenty cars of fruit shipped from
Yakima are on the British freighter
Albionstar, which went aground last
week on Rosedale reef near Victoria,
B. G.
W. G. Bennett, &c. is dead at Chelan
from injuries received when an 18-ton
rock hurtled down mountainside'
from where gravel was being pulled
to rock crusher.
Spokane children, ranging in age
from 8 to IL years, formed an automo-
bile theft gang that has been rounded
up by sheriff's deputies. Eight cars
have been recovered.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of
the 1928 crop of Walla Walla county
wheat has been sold and approximate
ly 100000 bushels yet remains in the
hands Of the growers.
The farm home of Jack McCheyne
near Ephrata, with all it's contents,
was burned to the ground recently by
fire which started in the attic from
an undetermined cause.
Ray Holbrook Of Kelso, member of
the All Sheep club, has been award
ed the Union Pacific scholarship of
500 offered annually to some Cow
litz county club member.
The body of Donald Davidson, 13
years old, drowned last July 10 while
playing in the river at Puyallup, was
recovered recently in the Puyallup
river near Tacoma Junction.
The fall quarter Of the Cheney state
normal school closes December Z,
when four three-year diplomas and A
two-year diplomas will be presented
by President R. T. Hargreaves.
Wendell Jeanette, manager of an oil
company at Davenport, was killed re
Gently when his view was obstructed
by fog and his automobile crashed into
a pole on the side of the road.
In the first 10 months Of this year
100000 cedar poles, which brought an
average of SIS each, were cut and ship
ped from Spokane by members of the
Western Red Cedar association.
Ford Prairie grange near Chehalis.
has elected James McCash master for
the coming year. McCash is head OF
the Lewis county Jersey breeders and
one of Lewis county's leading dairy
men.
Pinned in the cab of his overturned
truck on the highway near Zillah, H.
B. Kinney of Sunnyside was rescued
after an hours work and is now help.
less at his home as result of the
accident.
Mrs George Hagerdorn was serious.
ly burned recently in fire which
| destroyed filling station at Fargher
lake owned by Hagerdorn. The fire
started when Mrs Hagerdorn tried to
light lamp.
Construction of new training
school building at Cheney normal
school to cost $335,OOO is being urged
by the trustees, who claim the present
building is too small and unsuited to
the purpose.
A balance of s13,539 remains in the
state fair fund after paying expenses
out of $69,121 direct receipts from ad.
missions, grandstand and concessions
according to the final report of A. e
Lawson, state fair secretary.
Fifty buffalo from the o. d. Gibson
herd at Squaw creek were brought to
Yakima to be sent to new grazing
lands for the winter. The last part OF
their journey was by water, the herd
swimming the Yakima river.
/ Bobcats seem to be plentiful in thu
hills along the Columbia river, in east
ern Klickitat county, this year. c, E
Hamilton, who lives at Finley, in the
edge of the Horse Heaven countr!
and has string of trap lines in the
hills, canyons and ravines of the local
ity, has caught Is of the predator!
animals this year. A state bounty O.
SIS is paid on the animals.
r. ]. McLaren, "a, high climber ant
hook tender at Ryderwood the las
three years for the Long Bell Lumber
company, died at the Ryderwood frs
aid station from injuries received
three hours earlier when he fell i2I
feet from spar tree.
"Moon" milk shakes are the lates
connections devised to Stake the thirs
Of Aberdeen's citizenry, according tt
members of the dry squad. The in
nocuous appearance of the drink II
disarming but the potation carries /;
mighty wallop, it is declared.