White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

p. Carusa went to sleep while dr1v'
ing q truck on the North Bank high
way and the truck left the road and
rolled II feet down a bank near
Camas.
The Walla Walla county game
commission instructed Frank Bigler.
game warden. to arrest any persons
found hunting any kind Of game until
rain falls.
Yakima growers are receiving high
or prices for potatoes than for eight
years just passed. The quality ap.
pears to be improving as digging
progresses.
City officials from many Of the
municipalities throughout the north.
west were present at the joint dedi.
cation Of Everett's new downtown
street lighting system.
The Clark county pear crop has
been harvested and the yield was only
about 20 per cent Of normal growers
report. Cold rains at blossom time
prevented pollenization.
Walter McAlney, 20, was instantly
killed In the Toledo Lumber company
camp southeast of Toledo. McAlney
was falling tree, which caught and
crushed him before he could escape
A relic of an era when prehistoric
monsters roamed the Wenatchee val
ley may have been discovered when
bones, thought to be those Of
dinosaur were unearthed at Wenat-
chez.
August and 8 have been announc-
ed as the dates for the second Long
view Rolleo, to be held next year.
The Rolleo is carnival Of loggers'
sports, held for the first time last
month.
Bruce Houghton, 21a-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Houghton, fell into
an irrigation ditch near the family
home, nine miles southwest Of Wapa-
to-, and drowned before his absence
was discovered.
A special election will be held Sep
TENDER 25 in the Fords Prairie school
district adjoining Centralia on the
west to vote on tax levy Of five
mills. The proceeds would be used
to purchase school bus.
DR.. A. r. v. Davis, chairman of the
airport committee of the Kelso club,
appeared before the city council re-
Gently and urged that they proceed
at once to purchase and develop an
adequate airport for the city.
A new silo to hold enough corn and
grain to feed five cows for year
has just been completed at the coun-
ty farm near Vancouver. Seven hun
dred bushels Of grain were threshed
this year, the wheat yielding so
bushels to the acre.
Death followed quickly on the birth
recently of Seattle's first and only
"Siamese twins" The twins, the first
children of Mrs. Edward Bates, 10, Of
Irondale, Wash, were girls and were
Joined together by section of flesh
Just below the lower thorax.
Mike Wright and Hubert Ermean
were fined for killing deer and hav.
ing the meat in their ADssession by
Justice of the Peace Furnia at Monte
sano, following their arrest at the
end of the Walker road by Game War.
den J. Winslow and Deputy Kocher.
Wright was find $3.50 and costs, and
Ermeau $3.50 and costs.
Land and timber sold at the Sep.
TENDER sale increased the states
Golfers by 1851 ,919.58, according to
a report of Clark ". Savidge, state
land commissioner, made public re-
Gently. The sale, the largest in the
history of the land office, included
the disposal of timber aggregating
$589, 140.75, and established high
record for single section Of timber
one stand in Thurston county bringing
In $234,02950 alone.
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