White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-04

in her home at Spokane when cal
Of gasoline exploded, but in doing 81
suffered fatal burns and died Monda!
In hospital.
Erection of a $4,000 memorial
building at Fort Lewis to perpetuate
the memory Of the Ninety-first Divi
sion and it's organizer is planned BY
the Maj. Gen. Henry A. Greene Mem
orial association.
Tobias Senti, young farmer al
Whipple Creek, on the Pacific highway
II miles from Vancouver, killed his
wife Amelia, his daughter Ruth, H.
and his son Alfred, a, and then blasted
himself to bits with dynamite.
A Boy Scout rally during the Walla
Walla air circus May 26 and 81 is be
ing planned. Several hundred scouts
from the Blue Mountain council will
participate in the rally, which is to in.
clude modern aircraft tournament.
"Rube" Zimmerman, %, ranch fore
man of Snowden, died as a sequel to
tragedy in which Mrs. w. A. Nutter
his employer, was slain at her home
at White Salmon. Officers said zim-
norman shot her to death and turned
his revolver upon himself.
r1,o bu,npar ,tro ,,,bo,rx, oror re Ia OF
year will not be repeated this year,
w. H. Wood, manager of the Washing.
ton Growers Packing corporation,
said recently. The plants are smaller
and many Of the early blossoms blight.
ed because of rain and cold weather.
A. e. Allen, manager of the Allen
Packing company, operating can.
merry on the Port of Kelso docks an.
nounced that his firm closed deal
recently which will enable him to pur-
chase the entire strawberry output Of
Cowlitz county at cents per pound,
hulled.
Florence Nederlee of Mount Vernon
is the champion typist of Skagit coun-
ty. In the annual test held in Mount
Vernon she wrote fifty-nine words per
minute. Her nearest opponent was
Evelyn Norbeck Of Sedro-Woolley,
Marilla Blakesley of Anacortes was
third.
The largest monthly state and coun-
ty apportionment for school purposes,
ever received at Vancouver is being
distributed from the office of County
School Superintendent Krohn. The
total was $126,472.S2. The state con-
tributed S5,336.O2 and the county SAL
1860.
Sterilization of Grays harbor's lum-
Der industry by means of general
sawmill merger was assured recently
with the announcement that approx
mately rs per cent of the sawmill
operating interests of the Aberdeen
district have signified their intentions
of entering into a consolidation.
Shot through the abdomen by the
bullet from 20 caliber rifle, which
he picked up barrel first at his home
at Bay City, Leon Bowen, 14-year-old
son of A. w. A. Bowen, died in St.
Joseph's hospital in Aberdeen. The
rifle was lying on bed and the trig-
ger became entangled with the cloth
ing.
Trapped in their beds, Louis, 6, and
George, 3, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Weiberg of South Bend, were burned
to death when fire destroyed their
home. The parents had built fire
in the kitchen range and gone to a
barn a quarter Of mile away to milk
the COWS. They left the boys sleeping
upstairs.
The new Great Northern $25,000,.
900 tunnel under the Cascade noun
tains in Washington state, which was
"holed through" by blast set off by
President Coolidge Tuesday, is expect
ed to be completed and trains run
ming through it before the end of this
year. The tunnel is eight miles long
between Scenic and Berne.
The orchard census of Spokane
county, included in the annual report
of F. G. Nielsen, district horticultural
inspector, shows a striking change in
the brief space Of five years. The
greatest change has come in the num-
Der of apple trees. In 1922, Spokane
county had 1,164,6SG apple trees. In
1927, this had dropped to 252,O17, about
one-fifth the number.
With a metal tag on his wrist ask.
ing anyone who found him to COM
municate with his parents in Port
Townsend little nine-year-old lad
was picked up on the streets of Au-
burn last week. Chief of Police
Charles Ludwig got in touch with his
parents and returned the youthful wan
derer to his home. The tag explained
that Byron was in the habit of run
ming away frequently.
The Northern Pacific railway will
spend s426,922 in Yakima and vicinity
for improvements this year. according
to announcement by w. e. Conan, as
sistant to President Donneley, who ar
rived in Yakima last week on tour
of inspection.
Fourth class noatQfficeS in Wash.