White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


$245,0O0 junior high school at Wenat-
chez on the site adjoining the present
high school.
Sowing Of spring wheat is now on
in full blast in Adams county. The
extent Of damage to fall wheat has not
yet been determined.
More sheep by over $4,000 are in
the Yakima valley this year than have
been in any other year. The .shearing
season is just opening.
For the first time in 20 years Bickle-
ton residents are dissatisfied with
their school buildings and are consid-
ering constructing a new one.
Keith Gardiner, student of the
University of Washington, was shot
and killed by bandit while working
at gasoline service station at Seattle.
The owners of the Kennewick-P asco
highway bridge declare that they will
not sell to the state for 100000, the
amount appropriated by the legisla-
ture.
Spokane county, with COW popula-
ton Of $4,000, and Stevens county,
with 5000, are seeking to eliminate
the cow that is not a profitable pro-
Queer.
Ten thousand acres of summer fall
low land in the Walla Walla valley, to
be used for raising navy beans, is be-
ing sought by large packing concern
on lease.
The North Central highway between
Davenport and Harrington has been
closed to trucks and stages. Only
touring cars and school buses will be
permitted.
Mrs. Wesley Hugh Dubois of Spo-
kane has been elected state regent Of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, winning over Mrs. ]. L. Donald
of Yakima.
Establishment Of one of the largest
poultry farms in the United States,
involving an expenditure of 100000,
covering 30 acres, has been started
| near Lynden.
Two sheep demonstrations were
held in Pierce county last week for
the benefit of farmers who desire to
add the raising of sheep to their farm.
ing operations.
The famous Glen-Tana herd of pure.
bred Jerseys has passed into history
with the sale of the remaining AZ ami.
mails to the Waikiki farm on the Little
Spokane river.
The Forthcoming resignation Of John
B. Garlic as mayor of Montesano was
announced by him last week. 1t will
be presented at the next meeting OF
the city council, April 2.
During the first 10 days of March
5O2 cars of apples Of the 1928 crop
were shipped, bringing the seasonal
shipments to 2O,32O cars, compared
with 1888 one year ago.
Due to the drying action of the
weather on the highways, the load
limit on several Of the main Inland
Empire roads has been raised by the
state highway department.
A holding company with capital
stock of s1O,OOO,O00 to include is In
land Empire banks is being formed by
the Old National bank and Union
Trust company of Spokane.
Fifty-five prisoners in Grays Har-
Dor county Jail at Montesano have
been .yaccinated for smallpox. Two
prisoners recently broke out with the
disease and the Jail is under quaran-
tine.
Donald L. Van Dusen, 26, radio tech
nician, was instantly killed a few days
ago at radio station KGA in Spokane
while he was working on transform
er switchboard in the main plant of
the station.
Dedication ceremonies for soldier
memorial monuments at Maryhill,
erected by Samuel Hill in honor of the
memory Of Klickitat soldiers who had
given up their lives in the world war,
will be conducted May 30.
A "jawbreaker," hard, round piece
of candy, claimed the life of Homer
Hunt, IL, son of Mr. and Mrs. e. H.
Hunt of Spokane A downtown police
man found the boy strangling and
hurried him to hospital, but sur
geons were unable to remove the can
dy from his throat in time to save the
boys life.
Bobcats were forced from cover dur.
ing the severe winter weather in Klick.
itat county, and were shot and trapped
in much larger number than usual
according to the number of pelts pre-
sented to the county auditor for boun
ty payments.
Life insurance companies that write
double indemnity in case the insured
is killed in certain specified public
convcyances are not liable for the
double payment, according to deci
sion of Judge Wilson Of the Thurston
county superior court.
Everybody seems to know just how
the women will vote-excepting the