White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-17

reelected president OF the washington
State Historical society at the annual
business meeting held in Tacoma re-
Gently.
Chief Justice Macintosh has grant
ed writ of error to attorneys for
Wallace C. (Bob) Gaines, convicted
filicide, to permit him to carry his
appeal from the death sentence to the
United States supreme court.
Killing three bears with two bullets
was the feat of Paul Hinton, Port
Townsend hunter. Hinton encountered
one old bear and two cubs. The two
cubs were in line with his rifle, and
his first bullet killed them both.
Three blankets hanging on clothes
line in the yard were the only posses
sions saved by Mr.. and Mrs. w. Nc
Elland when their four-room home in
the Lexington community, five miles
north of Longview, burned last week.
George H. Norris is completing the
plans and estimates for paving pro-
ject at Cathlamet, county seat of Wah-
kiakum county, on which hearing
is scheduled for February 20. The
work is estimated to cost about $685.
900.
School elections will be held March
8 in 60 districts in Clark county out
side of Vancouver, County Superin-
tendent Krohn has announced. One
OF more members of the school board
will be elected in each district.
An SO.acre tract known as the old
Stephenson place at Sixteenth and
Washington avenues on the south
western edge of the city has been
bought by the Yakima county commits
sion, and will be developed into a
modern airport.
The Tacoma municipal light and
power department enjoyed the biggest
business Of it's history in 1927 when
it collected almost $1,S0O,O0O in gross
revenue, according to the annual re-
port of the department of public utili.
ties filed with the city council by Com
missioner DAVIDSON.
The Centralia city commission has
taken steps to relieve the water short
age which residents of the northwest
section of the city have experienced
during the summer months. A new
eight-inch main, connecting with the
gravity pipe line before the latter
reaches the reservoir, is being laid.
The Clark county commissioners
have granted the Camas Telephone
company a franchise to erect poles
and string wires along several county
roads in the eastern and central part
part of Clark county. The company
will extend the service to Washougal,
Fern Prairie, Proebstel, Orchards and
eventually to Farghar lake.
Work will be started on road along
the bank of the Columbia river below
Vancouver, from Blurock's landing to
Bachelor island, nine miles, as soon
as title to all Of the right of way is
acquired, the county commissioners
have announced. This road will ac
commodate a large number of families
whose only outlet now is by boat.
Fifty-eight children marched calmly
to safety from their c1assrooms under
the direction of the principal, Henry
Hoffman. when fire broke out in the
Pleasant Valley school, 20 miles north
of Bellingham, last week. Aid In fight
ing the blaze was summoned from
Blaine and Bellingham, but owing to
a water shortage, the two-story frame
building was destroyed.
A. 3. Allen, president of the Allen
Packing corporation, which has leased
the new cannery building under con
struction on the public port site at
Eongview, is contracting with growers
in that vicinity for their entire crops
of string beans this season. A com
plete salmon packing line will be the
first in operation, to be followed by
vegetable and fruit lines. Allen ex
poets to begin packing by May 1.
One hundred and eleven mills re.
porting to the West Coast Lumber.
mems association for the week ending
February sold 114,620,916 feet OF
lumber, produced 108,657,252 feet and
shipped 10S,001,S07 feet, which was a
slight decrease in all lines of business
as compared with the report of ia
mills for the preceding week. Pro
duction the preceding week was ILL.,.
291,034 feet, sales 119,646,675 feet and
shipments 109,687O68 feet.
Timbers are being framed at Long.
view and trucks, holsters and other
steel is en- route from the Mayor Var
corporation of Passaic, N. j., by boat
for the construction Of so logging cars
for the Longview, Portland & North.
ern railway. The cars will be used
In hauling logs from the Long-B
Lumber companys logging operations
at Ryderwood to the mill site. The
cars will be 70 feet in length, said to
be the longest of any logging cars in
the world.
A special committee, w. H. Wood
chairman, appointed to investigate the