White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-26
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.


bank call in June was shown by fig
ures recently compiled.
A new 30-passenger bus has been
purchased by the student body of Van
couver high school and was used for
the first time last week.
The register at Mount Rainier shows
that 219,531 tourists visited the park
during the past season, a gain of ap.
proximately 10000 over last year.
Leonard H. Sutton, candidate for
nomination for sheriff, was arrested
at Yakima for alleged possession Of
liquor and placed in the county Jail.
The 1929 budget for Dayton calls
for a tax levy of 271a mills on a prop
erty valuation of $~1,058,000. This is
5 mills in excess of last years levy
Loss estimated at $4,000 was caus.
ed to crops in Chelan county when q
terriff windstorm swept Wheeler hill,
Stencil hill and Squillchuck canyon.
During the past year Game Warden
Davies has liberated 400 China pleas
ants and planted about 1,000, 900 trout
in various parts of Thurston county.
Monroe high school is starting off
with a larger enrolment than that of
any previous year, a total of 237 pupils
being registered, compared with 200
last year.
The Longview chamber of commerce
will be host to some 200 boys and girls
all day on November 27. The guests
will be members of the All clubs in
Cowlitz county.
Victor Stone, AZ, formerly a Kelso
resident, was killed instantly by a
dynamite explosion while working on
the new Port Townsend water system
in Quicene canyon.
Otta V. Battles, Yakima breeder of
fine cattle, will in March go to Perth,
Scotland, to serve as a judge at the
great Aberdeen-Angus show and sale
held there annually.
The unusual amount of building at
Longview has resulted in an increase
of carpenters wages from 80 cents to
81 an hour. Bricklayers are being
paid $1.50 an hour.
Attorney Fred Miller, one Of the
best known lawyers of Eastern Wash
ington and a resident Of Spokane for
more than 40 years, died in that city
following a brief illness.
Bank deposits of the is banks at
Spokane, according to a recent call of
the comptroller, show a total of $780,
492,275, a gain of approximately ST.
100000 over the call of July 2.
Chelan county commissioners an
nounc that the state and county tax
levy for the coming year will be %
mills on a property valuation of $685.
895,105. The last levy was 29.S mills.
William H. Kirkman of Walla Walla,
state senator, was killed and several
members of his family injured last
week when his automobile was wreck
ed on the state highway near Colfax.
contract for the construction of a
steel bridge over the Coweeman river
on the Pacific highway just south of
Kelso. The old structure has been
condemned.
Mrs. Hattie K. Bucklin was found
unconscious Sunday on the floor of
her home in Yakima, having been over-
come by gas from a stove in her room.
A pulmoter from the fire department
saved her life.
Increased lumber trade between the
Pacific Northwest and England in the
next few years is predicted by e. w.
Daniels, Hoquiam mill man, who has
just returned from a visit of several
months in Europe.
Mrs. Carrie Barr, Yakima probation
officer, was seriously injured recently
on the Ellensburg canyon highway
when she turned off the road and
crashed into a telephone pole in order
to avoid hitting a truck.
Gear Conrad, 20, son of p. T. Conrad
of Summit View avenue, Yakima, was
reported in a serious condition at
Yakima hospital after being brought
80 miles from a Tampico ranch where
he had been kicked by a horse.
Samuel Gavin, 81, a contractor, was
killed instantly neal Tacoma by a pre-
mature dynamite explosion. DR.. Ed
ward r. Perry, Pierce county coroner
who investigated, said that Gavin was
removing a large stump in the rear OIL
his residence when a charge of dyna
mite exploded.
Continued rainfall in the Klickitat
valley wheat belt is bringing early fail
sown grain up in a good stand. Grain
seeded since October rains began is
sprouting and it is expected that the
new crop will go into the winter II
good shape.
st. Lukes Episcopal church in Van
couver, one of the oldest churches ir
the Northwest, recently celebrated the
18th anniversary of it's organization
The Rev. John McCarty built a tiny
structure in 1853 on the site of the
present church.
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