White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

The value of buildings for which
permits were issued at Vancouver In
February totaled $32,250, as compared
with s26,O59 in February, 1927.
Yakima county commissioners have
authorized the payment Of $1,000 fol-
an S0-acre tract OF land near Yakima
which will be used for an airport.
John Kolorik, "a, of Centralia, was
killed at the MUMMY Lumber & Shin
gle company's camp No. 2 at Malone,
when he was hit by haul-back line.
Harley Colvin, IS, Northern Pacific
operator at Wymer, near Yakima, was
run over by string Of freight cars
and both legs severed below the knee.
Frank Atwood, 40, who was crushed
last Thursday when a donkey over
turned in the independence Logging
company camp, died in Centralia
hospital.
Loss from a fire which destroyed
the lumber and shingle mill of the
Montborne Lumber company, seven
miles southeast Of Mount Vernon, was
placed at s15O,OO0.
School district No. 81, south Of Har-
rington, and the Harrington city dis
trict, have voted to consolidate, &C
cording to Carl w. Morgan, county
school superintendent.
DR.. John P. Munson, 81, director OF
the department of biological science
at the Ellensburg Normal school since
1889, and lecturer and author on
biology, died there last week.
While hunting seals last Friday in
Quilcene bay, Louis Shields Of Port
Townsend, 10 years old, was fatally
wounded by bullet accidentally fired
by Laurence Maddox, companion.
Fred Eglin, Ahkanum valley ranch
er, about three miles from Tampico,
was killed by accidental discharge Of
his rifle as he was crawling through
fence while hunting coyote, re.
Gently.
Nick Carson, farmer living on the
Little Kalama, eight miles from Wood
land, lost his house, household goods,
chicken house, 1926 chickens and $3.50
in money which he had just borrowed,
by fire.
The Northwestern Mining associa
ton has pledged itself to support the
Columbia basin irrigation project in
adopted at it's sd annual convention
held in Spokane last week.
Free homesteads for settlers in the
diminished Colville Indian reservation
are proposed in a bill introduced in
congress by Representative Hill. Set.
tiers who have already paid for their
lands would be reimbursed.
At special meeting Of the Cheha.
lis city commission orders were given
for immediate construction of ham
gar capable Of housing the largest
ships, at the recently acquired Che
halls municipal aviation field.
Sunnyside irrigation district water
users plan court action to enjoin col
lection of levy Of 81 an acre annu'
ally for three years to pay $165,O00
delinquent assessments due the gov
eminent on lands declared to be worth.
less.
The annual meeting Of the Thurs
ton County Pioneer and Historical So
ciety was held in Olympia recently,
and the program was largely to OBJ
serve the 18th anniversary of the or.
ganization of the territory of Wash.
ington.
The annual meeting of the Washing.
ton State Cattle and Horse Raisers'
association will be held in Okanogan
April instead of April 8, as previous
ly announced. Two hundred men in
terested in the raising and marketing
Of livestock are expected to be pres
ent.
Yakima church workers, including
ministers and laymen, will organize
the Churchman's Service club next
week with membership limit of 100,
and membership in Protestant
church as one Of the requirements.
Weekly luncheon meetings are plan
ned.
Director of Licenses G. R. Maybury
has announced the issuance Of 310,3S2
motor vehicle licenses during the first
three months of the current year,
compared with 297610 for the same
period last year. With speeding up
of delivery of new model cars and
good weather in eastern Washington,
Maybury expects license applications
to show a large increase.
Spokane postal receipts last month
set a new February mark, the total
being $96315, according to Postmas-
ter Smith. This exceeded by. $17O3
the February, 1927, receipts, and was
the biggest February in the history Of
the office.
February proved record-breaking
month in Hoquiam, according to the
city engineers totals. The records