White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-19

A contest is now scheduled for ev-
cry elective political office In Long
view. Final filings recently brought
the total number of candidates for
councilmen to II, with seven offices.
The last link of the paved highway
between Seattle and Tacoma on the
High Line road will be formally open
ed to traffic October is, it was
learned recently, when automobile
caravans from Seattle and Tacoma
will witness the cutting of ribbon bar
riers by state and city officials.
Informal dedication of the new half
million dollar state college gymnasium
at Pullman will come during "home-
coming" weekend, October 10 and 20,
but the formal ceremonies will not
take place until after the opening Of
the basketball season in January,
President e. o. Holland announced.
Citizens of Walla Walla will pay less
In taxes next year than they did this
year, a compilation of state and county
figures shows. The total is $685.
sos. 90, compared with S944,456.70 The
city and school district will total about
$4,000 more than this year, but the
grand total will still be under 1927.
Appropriations for law enforcement
activities for Cowlitz county for 1929,
as provided in the budget, total $751;
1880, divided as follows: Superior
court, $40, 645. 80; sheriff, $15.775; pros
ecuting attorney, s7958; justice courts,
s4O25; Jail, $3175; constables, $2175.
Appropriations for the same offices
in 1928 totaled $52,575.
Work has been started on two wells,
18 inches in diameter, for the purpose
of furnishing the port of Vancouver
with an independent water system.
Powerful electric pumps will be in
stalled and a storage tank built, which
will be an added protection against
fire and furnish low water rates to in
dustrial plants along the water front.
Twenty carloads Of fresh salmon,
nine of them since last Friday, have
been shipped from Grays Harbor to
state and eastern markets since the
opening of the commercial season in
Aberdeen in September, according to
Harbor fish dealers. Heavy catches
have been made since the start of the
salmon to the spawning grounds, it
was stated.
All dirt and graveled roads in
Clark county, about $50 miles, will be
closed for six months, beginning Oc-
tober %, to all logging, tie and wood
trucks and other vehicles weighing in
excess of 1000 pounds, including load.
The order was signed by the county
commissioners, in accord with a policy
of protecting the roadbeds when they
are softened by rain.
With salmon running in large mum
bers in the Chehalis river and tribu-
taries now, commercial fishing is in
full blastJ Five carloads of fresh fish
were shipped from Aberdeen, most of
this consignment going to Chicago and
New York. The run this year started
a week later than last year, but the
|. pack is already almost equal to the
1927 pack at this date.
Lumber shipments from Grays har-
Dor slumped slightly for September,
with 93,221,5 SIG feet dispatched in ten
world trades. This was approximate
ly 100000 feet less than August and
1900, 900 less than September, 1927.
Shipments for the year so far are $780,
0O0, 900 feet behind the all-time record
set in 1927. The total so far this
year is 1874, S2O,3S4 feet.
The United States fisheries depart
ment will soon start a survey in Aber-
deem to determine the feasibility Of
growing oysters on the mud beds of
lower Grays harbor. H. c. Mcmillan,
government shellfish expert, is there
" SIolI tIC lANColl5Ql1OAy III : y.
G%altsoff, chief oyster investigator of
the department., will arrive soon to
Join Mcmillan in the survey.
Russell Burby was injured in a land
slide on Porter bluff when en- route
to Porter from his home east of Ma
lone. Other motorists have narrowly
escaped being hit by rolling rocks
since the rains began. The landslide
is about SO feet in width and reaches
to the Northern Pacific railroad track.
All traffic will have to detour on the
South Elma road until the road crews
can clear the highway.
The saddest hunting story of the
season is told by Prosecuting Attorney
William H. Grimm, his deputy, Russell
L.. Ponder, and Deputy Sheriff Mort
Wynn of Lewis county. While look
ing for deer they found a herd of %
elk, most of them in one band. The
elk seemed to be wise, because not
one would chase the members of the
party, although they invited attack.
The hunters could figure out no legal
wal to kill one of the animals.
E. r. Fetterolf, former Yakima and
Aberdeen newspaper man, has been
appointed assistant manager of the
Aberdeen chamber of commerce., the
appointment to take effect. October Is,
according to Hollis B.. Fultz, manager.
A thief or group of thieves have
been stealing red danger lanterns from