White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-12-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
A resolution urging stricter enforce
ment of traffic laws has been adopted
by the trustees of the Automobile club
of Washington.
The rush for automobile licenses at
the county auditors office at Yakima
exceeded that OF any previous year,
Auditor Claude Briggs said.
Problems of fruit growers were dis
cussed at the annual meeting OF the
Washington State Horticultural asso-
citation at Yakima December 9.
Libby E. Wilkeson, business man
and wartime aviator, has been ap-
pointed supervisor of Tacoma's new
100000 airport, which will soon be
opened.
The Seattle city council has voted
to grant municipal street railway men
wage increase of cents an hour
after January 1. The increase Will
affect HOO employees.
Joseph Starr, 81, laborer, was fatally
burned when fire RACED his small cot
tage in Cosmopolis, near Aberdeen.
A cigarette smoked in bed is believed
to have started the fire.
The Washington State grange will
file brief for Governor Hartley urg'
ing a state income tax to lift the
burden from general property and op-
posing a general sales tax.
The Associated Seed Growers OF
Fairfield are writing contracts on the
1880 crop of seed peas at price OF
SO per 100 pounds for Alaska and "a
for the wrinkled variety.
Alfred Wilkie. 38, lineman for the
Pacific Power & Light company, was
killed by electricity at the site Of the
new Skamania- Klickitat bridge over
the White Salmon river.
Sunday movies carried at the town
election in Woodland, ITO to 55. In.
terest was such that 166 votes, more
than twice as many as were cast at
the last election, were counted.
The ashes of Captain N. e. Cousins.
veteran master mariner who died at
Seattle, have in accordance with his
wishes been scattered at sea from
the bridge of the Ruth Alexander.
Two hundred farmers met at Pull
man recently and laid the foundation
for the organization Of the Pullman
Grain Growers, Inc, which will con.
troll more than 100000 bushels OF
| wheat.
A section of a 606-year-old Douglas
fir tree is the first outside contribu
| ton to the recently formed museum
at Hoquiam. The contribution wa!
made by the West Coast Lum bermen''
association.
One of Centralia's best known pho
neers, Charles Gilchrest, died recent
ly at the age of SO years. He hao
| been a resident of Centralia As years
and was a member of the first state
legislature.
John West was reelected mayor fol
i his third term, receiving 791 votes
against 461 cast for John L. Steelman
present city commissioner. There
we're 1852 votes cast out of a registra
ton of 2242.
Plans are being completed at Wen
atchee for the installation of high
powered electric pumping plant t
cost 100000, to end the danger o
water shortage on Pogue flats, Okan
ogan county. n
"Hoquiam is extremely short of wa
ter from any unpolluted source" al
official report on the water situation
by City Engineer Austin stated. TIL
condition has been caused by the pre
longed dry spell.
While many springs and wells ar
going dry in the Waterville distrfc
the spring near Reno's, on top of
dry hill, is flowing more freely tina
ever before. The same is true {
Rebecca springs and Rattlesnak
} springs.