White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIeCtedfor
Our Readers.


Crushed between pulley wheel and
moving belt at Springers mill. Sidney
Bangs, 81. was killed at Olympia.
Liberal rainfall in the Walla Walla
section last week saved thousands of
acres Of wheat seed and growers are
jubilant.
For lack Of patronage. the Spokane
! Yakima sleeper service on the North.
ern Pacific has been discontinued, ef.
fective November /.
Otis Naff 4S, was killed instantly
at Spokane when his automobile was
demolished by fast mail train on the
Great Northern tracks.
There was an attendance of 125 at
the Presbyterian church last week at
the fathers and sons dinner given by
the Mems Brotherhood of the church.
A number of wild turkeys propagat-
ed and reared at the Steilacoom game
farm are being released in Yakima,
hs
ties.
Valentine Schrack, 80, veteran of
the Civil war and for 81 years custo-
dian of the Snohomish county court
| house, died suddenly at his home in
Everett.
Crazed by poison liquor, A. T. Tou-
louise Sunday night at Yakima wreck
ed his home, drove his wife and child
outside and then fatally shot himself
in the head.
Daniel Fry, president Of the First
National bank of Salem, Or, has pur-
chased the entire mint crop Of the
Yakima valley, paying from $500 to
! $2.85 pound.
For the first 10 months of this year
the Bellingham municipal dock has
received approximately $4,000, with
| prospects of a total of 100000 before
the end of the year.
Shipments of fruit and vegetables
last week from the Yakima valley ag-
created 1116 cars, the lowest for eight
weeks, the average during that length
of time being 1850 cars.
Defective electric wiring is blamed
| for a fire in Yakima that destroyed
| the establishment of the Mandell Poul-
try company with 400 chickens and
property loss of $4,000.
Kenneth Mills, 13-year-old son OF
Mrs. Arthur Little of Norton was acct
dentally killed with his own gun Sat
urday in a hunting accident at Davis
lake, mile east of Morton.
Fred G.. Schoch, 81 years old, one of
the foremost citizens of Everett and
| for decade leader in Snohomish
county civic affairs, died suddenly
while playing a game of golf
Robbers at Wenatchee entered the
Whiteman Coal company office after
throwing chunk of coal through the
window, broke off the combination of
the safe and took about $3.50.
Residents of Skamokawa are enjoy
ing electric lights for the first time.
Installation Of equipment was COM
pleted recently. Work on the installa-
| ton took more than a month.
Members of the United Fruit Grow
ers' association Of Grand Mound and
Rochester have just received the final
payment on their S254OOO crop of
strawberries barreled last summer.
For the first 10 months of the pres
ent year Aberdeen's building figures
have reached total of $643, 425, and
indications are that they will amount
to $725,OOO before the close of the year.
A $1,5OO,OOO increase in the Seattle
plant of the Pacific Coast Steel COM
pany and doubling of its S1,00O,0O0 an
nual payroll is announced by the com
pany, which also has plant in Port
land.
Conrad Storm of Puget Sound is
land was arrested by State Inspector
McDonough for operating a fish trap
without having received his naturali-
cation papers. He pleaded guilty and
was fined ST.
Theron Eighme, 65-year-old farmer
of Granite Falls, dropped dead at the
Great Northern station at Everett as
he was about to greet his fiance Mrs.
Ella Messenger, who had just arrived
from Minneapolis.
The Washington Pulp & Paper cor
poration has received permission to
build chipping mill and power plant |
on government reservation land at !
Neah Bay, thus giving work to 400 adj |
ditional employees.
Two men and woman were killed |
when an automobile in which they |
were riding was struck by Northern
Pacific train at street intersection
in Yakima. They are Robert A. Ward, |
Gladys Hope Marks and Anthony j.
Dietzen.
The Eagle theatre in Woodland,
owned by Harry Andrews, has been
leased until May l to A. Mcpherson,
who operates the theatre at kalama.
He plans to operate tine house six
nights week. instead of four, as
heretofore