White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Cur Readers.

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Pacific northwest potato show.
Charles R. Collins Of Seattle has
made application to Kelso city Off.
Gals for 50-year franchise for the in
stallation of gas system for that city.
Construction work on the uncom.
pleted portion of the Olympic highway
loop has come to a halt for a four
month shutdown during the winter
months.
Ernest butcher of Everett was IA
tally burned last week when an ex-
plosion and fire sank the little cargo
boat City of Everett in Elliott bay at
Seattle.
w. M. Mccain Of La Center has be-
gun the delivery of Christmas trees
at Woodland, loading the first of eight
cars destined for Texas and eastern
markets.
DR.. A. M. Hendrickson, prominent
dairyman, informs the Burlington
chamber of commerce that dairy herds
are adding $4,000 a day to the wealth
of Skagit county.
Washington state land and timber
valued at 100000 will be offered for
sale at public auction December by
the auditors of the counties in which
the property is located.
F. S. Millichamp of Wapato claims
the apple producing record of the Pa
cific northwest, having gathered 6115
boxes and sold 371a tons of culls from
his three-acre orchard.
Milton, the 2-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. l. Manser, was burned to
death at Olympia when clothing in
which he was wrapped caught fire
from the kitchen stove.
The first pulp shipment ever to be
sent from Grays Harbor to Japan, 500
tons, was sent out recently from the
Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper company's
new plant at Ellensburg.
George Eaton was elected district
president for the l. o. o. F.. district
organization at it's convention in Kelso
last week, and Percy Terrier Of To.
ledo was chosen secretary.
One hundred and twenty-eight stu
dents are on the Everett high school
honor roll for the first quarter of this
year, according to announcement by
Principal Forrest c. Murdoch.
H. c. Willis, 70, pony express rider
in 1855 between Cheyenne and Rock
Springs, Wyo., and veteran telegraph
operator, died recently in Spokane
hospital following brief illness.
Farmers in the vicinity of Elma
have finished the harvesting of their
potato crops, whicls were almost
complete failure due to the ravages
of the flea beetle and wire worm.
Reports from Washington confirm
the rumor that the regional postoffice
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moved from Spokane to Seattle, the
removal taking effect December l.
Aberdeen building slumped to the
lowest point of the year when the
month of October showed total of
but $23,5S9 in new construction, $12,-
900 lower than the previous low mark.
Carl Kunzman, owner of service
station at Bellingham, who had gone
| hunting last week, was found dead
near Marietta with shotgun by his
side He was alone at the time of the
fatality.
Members Of the firm of N. P. Sew
erin company of Chicago sent word
to Walla Walla recently that work on
the new $229,O00 infirmary at the u.
| S. veterans hospital will be started
| this week.
| Erich Mueller, 49, was found not
guilty of the murder of his father,
Richard Mueller, by reason of insan-
ity, according to the verdict of jury
in the Island county superior court
at Coupeville.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company is planning to start 'construc-
tion of second S5,00O,00O steam row.
er plant unit at Renton Immediately
upon completion next September CT
the unit now projected.
Negotiations have been completed
between the Centralia city commission
| and George l.. Barnes whereby Barnes
leases city-owned property as a site
for brass factory. Construction Of
| diately. Barnes has been operating
similar plant successfully in Everett
for a number of years.
Five hundred ocean going steamers
have locked at Longview so far this
year, of which 378 loaded cargo there
and 1872 discharged cargo, as COM
pared with total of 1854 to November
% last year, 271 of which loaded, and
83 discharged cargo.
Cattle thieves are again active in
Clark county, according to reports
made to the sheriff. Three head of
young stock were killed last week on
the Mcintyre farm at Chelatchie
Prairie and one was killed on the farm
Of H. r. Heisen at Heisen.