White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-03
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Seven Scandinavian organization Of
Grays Harbor joined July % and 20 in
a two-day celebration and picnic.
Horace E. Smith, Omak, republican
filed for reelection to the senate from
Douglas, Grant, Ferry and Okanogar
counties.
John Mcdowell, rs, Kennewick city
councilman, died from heart disease
which was thought to have been
brought on by the heat.
Crippled kids of Skagit county were
made happy at the annual picnic for
the kiddies to be given by the Elks
club at Bayview state park.
While driving binder cutting wheat
on his ranch near Colville, w. g. Pax.
ton and the four hourses he was driv'
ing were killed by lightning.
Members of the budget committee
have set $4,000 as the goal of Sc.
attle's community chest this year.
Last year the amount was S729,456.
Three hundred acres of grain on the
w. R. Ritter place near Prescott were
burned. One-third of the grain has
been cut. The combine was saved.
Ice cream makers state that Walla
Walla is consuming 800 gallons of
the frozen stuff every day and has
been doing so ever since the hot wave
started.
Shipping of lambs from the Walla
Walla region is expected to reach the
$4,000 mark this season, the largest
lamb crop in the history of the sheep
industry.
More than $4,000 is being invested
in buildings now under construction
at Wilbur. The largest project is the
$4,000 wholesale plant being installed
by G. L. Turner Of Spokane.
Arthur Kelley and Tony Faust suf-
fered serious injuries when an air.
plane owned by Kelley dropped 60 feet
at Twin Gates, south of Tenino, pin.
ming it's occupants beneath it.
Cornelius Rookstool, 70, Washing
ton pioneer, was found dead in his
barn near Davenport by a neighbor
who had called to visit him. He had
been stricken with heart trouble.
Finding it difficult to care for 40
women in the Walla Wal1a peniten-
tiary with two matrons, third matron
has been appointed in the person Of
Mrs. Thoma B. Balsh of Spokane.
For the second consecutive year,
every school district in Walla Walla
county completed it's annual term with
cash balance after all expenditures.
The districts have S214,440 on hand.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
has given contract to w. G. Scheel,
Tenino contractor, for the construc-
ton of several buildings at and near
Vail, including freight and passenger
depot.
A water shortage has developed in
Oakyille, so serious that official no
tees have been published warning all
users to Immediately cease using
water except for strictly domestic pur-
poses.
Automobile freight rights from Spo-
kane to Portland are asked in an ap-
plication placed with the Washing
ton state department of public works
by Frank Bumps and Frank Turner
Of Portland.
A substantial addition to Centralia's
industrial payroll occurred when oper-
ations were started at the new plant
of the Centralia Lumber & Manufact-
uring company. A force Of 20 men
is employed.
Highly favorable prices being re-
ceived for eggs at the Winlock eco
| op" station are credited with account
ing for the fact that egg receipts are
holding up unusually we'll for this
time of the year.
Kicking out the windshield of his
automobile when it turned over into
deep water near Ellensburg, Floyd
Young, II, suffered cuts that caused
him to bleed to death. Two girls with
him swan ashore.
University of Washington regents
notified Land Commissioner Clark v.
Savidge they will not accept the co.
900 acres of timber land located in the
Snoqualmie national forest near Sc
attic for use by the college of forestry
as a demonstration forest. The block
of timber is from the common school
grant and was allotted to the univer-
sity by federal forest authorities in
land exchange negotiated by Saw.
idge and w. Vaughn Tanner, former
attorney general.
urges Homer Kirby and H. E. Nc
Kenny filed notice with the secretary
Of state of their candidates. to sue
coed themselves as superior court
judges, positions Nos. l and 2, for
Cowlitz, klickitat and Skamania coun-
ties.
Bodies of six Japanese who were
drowned when T. Suda, Bellevue truck
farmer drove his automobile off the
ferryboat Mercer at the Leschi park
l.