White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected
Our Readers.

his season from the Wenatchee dis
trict.
All of the II oranges in Clark coun
ty were represented at the session o
Clark county Pomona held at Barber
ton last week.
Theophale Daupin, Is, Washington
pioneer and Civil wal veteran, diet
suddenly while assisting in repairing
his house at Orting.
Registration in Vancouver exceed:
the highest previous record by nearl!
400, City Clerk McDonah said. Tht
total was over 5000.
Headed by a special chamber O
commerce committee, Palouse citizens
celebrated the opening of the worlds
largest pea splitting plant, in the cit!
recently.
Walter A. Shepherd, donkey engine
man for the Kuhn Logging company
died at Hoquiam from injuries receiv
ed when caught between two flat cars
at Aloha.
The Charles Nelson sawmill, the
largest mill in Clallam county, has
started operations at Port Angeles
after a shutdown of nearly a year, put
ting 400 men to, work.
Electors of Thurston county viii
vote at the general election in Novem
Der on the question of authorizing
bond issue Of $275,O 900 for the erection
Of a new courthouse.
Dee Reigel lis under arrest at Spo
kane charged with manslaughter il
connection with the running dowI
with his motorboat of Mrs. Mabe.
Schewenne in Newman lake.
Swept from a small boat during 8
gale, Hugh G. Frame, professor Of
business administration at the Uni
versity of Washington, was drowned il
Puget sound near Point Monroe.
The body of DR.. d. B. Holden Of Vic
toria, B c., one Of the seven victims
of the Inflated Seattle-Victoria plane
which disappeared August 25, was
found recently in Port Angeles har
Dor.
With the terms of eight city officials
expiring this year, Pullman voters will
have an added duty to discharge al
the polls, November 6, for at that time
nominations for city offices will be
made.
The first shipment of pulp in com
mercial quantities left the harbor las
week, when the new Grays Harbol
Pulp company shipped four cars tt
Kalamazoo, Mich, for manufacture in
to paper.
Deposits in the four Walla Walla
banks as tabulated for October 8
break by over 100000 all previous
figures. The total is $12, COZ, 92S.52;
the previous high was November IL,
1919, with $%12,165,6
Loss of $4,000, mostly covered by
insurance, resulted from a fire which
wiped out two ho%p-drying houses ant
a storehouse on a ranch in the Cow
iche district, owned by the First Ma
tional Bank of Yakima.
The water shortage has been serious
in the Fargher Lake district this fall
One drilled we'll reached a good FLOW
at a depth of 220 feet. A second vel
is being sunk 1870 feet and water i
expected about 20 feet deeper.
A still with a capacity Of 100 gal
Ions of moonshine every eight hour
was uncovered by the sheriff of Kit
titas county in Hanson canyon, nea
Ellensburg. An elaborate system @
warning signals was maintained.
A riderless horse belonging to C. A
Munson, 70-year-old sheepman, whicl
returned to camp near Bickleton las
week, has started a countrywide
search for Mr.. Munson. Friends be
lieve he is either dead or s%erious,,
incapacitated.
One thousand hunters took part il
a gigantic rabbit drive that was he'll
last Sunday in the lower Yakima val
ley under the auspices of four Izaa]
Walton League chapters of that dis
trict. An area more than a mile wide
between Status and Mabton, was co,
cred by the drive.
A switch controlling the power TO
an e~ighteen-mile extension up tn
Wishkah valley was turned on il
Aberdeen, and t%hirty-one families ha'
electric lights for the first time in tn
valleys history. The extension wa
constructed by the Grays Harbor Raj
way and Light company.
AS a memorial to the war dead O
Klickitat county, and as an inspire
tional monument to the living, a re
plica of ancient Stonehenge of Eng
land is to be completed on land owne
by Sam Hill at Maryhill, overlookin
the Columbia river.
Charging that present power rate
are retarding industrial development
Of Grays harbor, the city council re
Gently adopted a committee repor
urging immediate steps to acquire til
power plant and system Of the Gray
Harbor Railway & Light company.