White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

Two Seattle boys, one 13 and the
other 49, arrested Monday by the po'
lice, have confessed 16 burglartes dur
ing the past two weeks.
Farmers at Walla Walla began hlr-
ing men to report for work Monday,
when 1t is expected harvest will begin
unless further rain falls
The eight-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Shannahan was drowned
at the Standard Lumber company mill
at Laurel. Shannahan is employed IN
the mill.
Floyd Hansen, 20, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lende Hansen, has left Belllng-
ham for West Point, where he Will
take four-year course in the military
academy.
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Spokane direc-
tory for 1929, to be off the presses IN
November, will show that the city
now has a population Of approximate
ly 100000.
Yakima bank statements in response
to the current call showed aggregate
deposits of $1O,684,363, gain of $685.
| 361 or per cent, over the figures OF
one year ago.
Water rights for s15OOOO mining
project are asked by the Venus silver
| mines of Fruitland, Stevens county,
in an application filed at the state by
draulics office.
Because Of the crowded condition OF
the high school at Walla Walla, SUI
perintendent w. M. Kern in his an
nual report advises the building OF
junior high school.
The fifth summer school OF Gonzaga
university opened at Spokane last
Monday for six weeks term with an
enrolment Of 176 students, 80 percent
of whom are women.
Seventeen carloads, 1880 head OF
prime Klickitat lambs fattened on In
| IGIHGuldI6 Idu60 LII L4lC oAAAASoS AAAN>~
tains, were shipped to the Portland
stockyards last week.
Large tracts are being planted to
potatoes this year in Clark county,
due to the fact that many farmers
who could not sell their potatoes are
using them for seed.
Many of the logging camps in north
west Washington have closed down
and will remain closed during the for
est fire season, throwing hundreds OF
men out of employment.
More than $1,5oO,ooO will be expend-
ed in Seattle this summer by the Rich
field Oil company for establishment
Of it's extensive marine terminal stor'
age facilities at Smith Cove.
While workmen were burning weeds
and grass along the highway near
Mansfield Saturday, the fire got be-
yond control and burned 80 acres OF
rye belonging to John Harper.
An explosion, the cause Of which is
unknown, blew out the front OF the
Lyric theater at Spokane last week.
Police investigating said the place
was entirely demolished inside.
Mrs. Mary Newton, 70, widow OF
Frank Newton, pioneer resident OF
Spokane, died Wednesday at her home
in that city from grief one week FOL
lowing the death of her husband.
Between $4,000 and $1,000 was OBJ
tanned by lone man who held up the
Marine State bank in the university
district of Seattle and escaped In the
heavy traffic of University Way.
Less than half of the qualified yot
ers in Vancouver have registered ant
the books will be closed August II
20 days before the primaries, to enable
the auditor to order election supplies
Mrs. John Stanioch, wife OF the
sheriff of Kitsap county, is IN CRIT
icaI condition in a Bremerton hospita
with injuries received Saturday Whe1
she fell down flight Of stairs IN ne
home.
Charles Telecky, prominent farme
OF the Carico hills, near Ritzyllle, say
that rattlesnakes are so thick IN Ill
wheat fields that the hired men will
not work unless provided with rubbe
boots.
Production of lis mills reportin
to the West Coast Lumbermen's asse
citation for the week ending June .
was 119,SSO,930, orders were Tor l2o
1O1,253 feet and shipments 155,S78,l3
feet. This showed an increase In al
lines of business as compared with tn
preceding week when production wa
119,75O, 100 feet, new business 49, Ala
14S and shipments 135,231,013 fee
with 112 mills reporting.
Pullman's new 100000 fedora
building, appropriations for wnlc
have already been made by congress
will be located at the corner OF Part
disc and Alder streets, directly acros
, Paradise from the postoffice now !
use.
! Poison of June grass, growing o
, the range of w. E. Coleman, lowe
Yakima valley stockman, killed a
head of 1T beef cattle almost read
to ship to market. The herd has bee