White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


vote of 60 to 49,
Decision to continue Yakima's cham.
Der of commerce drive for $4,000, OF
which only $4,000 has been subscrib-
ed, has been made.
Dentists of southwest Washington
and of Clatsop and Columbia counties
in Oregon will hold one-day conven-
ton in Longview on April 8.
Charles w. Ring Spokane mill man,
was instantly killed when he fell be.
tween logs and was crushed at the Nc.
Goldrick Lumber company's mill pond.
Commissioners of Thurston county
have purchased for $29,321.92, 214
acres on Bush Prairie, four miles south
of Olympia, as a site for a municipal
airport.
The Wilson Creek State bank, which
closed three months ago as result of
the Herrick bankruptcy, has reopened,
with approximately 100000 in de-
posits.
Regular daylight service has been
resumed at the Maryhill ferry across
the Columbia river. 1t is not expected
that night service will be resumed for
some time.
A jury in federal court at Tacoma
has found DR.. John Gibson Sargent of
Centralia guilty of violating the fed.
eral narcotic laws on all three counts
against him.
AS bid for the Pacific Northwest
passenger business the Canadian Pa
cific railway will cut the running time
of It's fast transcontinental trains an
hour and half.
More than $50 fashionably dressed
men and women of Seattle were held
prisoners for three hours when 16 fed
eral prohibition officers raided road
house just north of Seattle.
Len Dillman, SO, pioneer of the Big
Bend country, was killed recently
when his car ran off culvert six
miles north of Coulee, dropping 10
feet and breaking his neck.
A herd of approximately $50 elk
which have for the past year ranged
within 40 miles of Bremerton is being
rapidly thinned by predatory animals,
according to hunters and trappers.
Harry M. Dyer, deputy horticultural
inspector at Walla Walla for several
years, has filed his resignation effec-
tive March Is and will be succeeded
by Bert Tucker, formerly of Imbler
Or.
Marriage licenses issued in Vancou.
yer in February totaled 1852, compared
with 1872 in February, 1928. The to.
tai for two months this year was 322,
compared with 2S8 for the same period
last year.
The first concerted effort to bring
back Palouse county soil to it's original
productivity by the use of commercial
fertilizers will be made this spring by
farmers of the Whelan district, north
of Pullman.
Attempting to build a fire in the fur
mace, using kerosene, Miss Elizabeth
Bandy, high school senior and {
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Ban
dy, was probably fatally burned at Will
bur recently.
Wrapped in neat package, 500 II
silver taken in holdup of the Mile
Service station at Everett was return
ed to station operators a few day
ago with note saying: Returning
your money. Am sorry we took it.
Decasto e. Mayer Of Seattle, sus
>pected of three homicides and VIII
has spent most of the last 16 years II
various prisons and jails, has bee
sentenced to the penitentiary for lif
on charges of being an habitual GRIN
inal.
The board of county commissioners
governing the bikes on Puget island
in the Columbia river below Long
view, have posted signs prohibitin
use of the dikee as highways, unit
the roadways can be graded and re
paired.
AS result of negotiations with tn
Pacific Coast Terminals-Tacoma, Inc
Tacoma is assured an adequate col
storage plant at the Port of Tacom
| piers, it was announced recently by {
T e. Ledbetter, member of the Pierc
county port commission. The tern
inal's concer'' + s taken 30year leas
on the storage plant to be built at III
port piers at cost of 100000 by lat
spring.
Melting snow in the mountain r.
gion along the Columbia river in ives
ern Klickitet county has kept stat
highway maintenance crews busy r
pairing flood damage and soft place
Highways are reported in excelle1
condition for motor travel.
The Stone building in Walla Wall
which was being remodeled by til
Stone interests for a public marke
was leased recently by w. e. and +
e. Vines of Seattle, who will establis
. a unit of the Grant Central publ
market in Walla Walla.