White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

William Lund was recalled as mayor
of Cathlamet in a spirited election
there recently, by the narrow margin
Of seven votes.
!, Carey Pritchard, living near Pres
colt, discovered recently that rs sheep
in his flock had been killed during the
night by dog.
The attorney general has advised
that it is waste of time and money
trying to make the state highway de-
partment purchase the Metaline Falls
toll bridge.
Bids were ordered called by the
Chehalis city commission recently for
the construction of new standard
street lighting system in the west side
residence district.
The price of milk has been raised
at Pullman 40 cents per 100 pounds.
This will make the price IL cents per
quart, as is charged in majority OF
surrounding cities.
DR.. H. R. Keylor, pioneer physician
of Walla Walla, offered to take $24,-
700 bond issue to complete the city's
sewage disposal plant payments, bid
ding par for 51a per cent bonds.
A reward Of $4,000 for the arrest
and conviction Of the bandits who
murdered John M. Ivester, Railway
Express company cashier at Spokane,
has been offered by the company.
h With strong cooperative organizar
ton, Clark county will forge to the
front as a turkey producing section,
farmers say, and efforts are being
made to organize turkey growers.
Frank H. Lamb was named pres1-
dent of the Peoples institute advi-
sorry board at the board meeting re-
Gently, when the board formulated
plans to establish museum at Ho-
GUAM.
Twelve thousand strawberry plants
of the Marshall variety have been set
out this fall on the ranch OF @. w.
Nealeigh, just southeast of Ridgefield.
The plants required about three acres
of ground.
| William Davis has been named by
the Northwestern Electric company
to have charge of their road improve.
ment program on the Lewis river
highway from Johnson creek to their
Ariel dam site.
The total Of motor vehicle license
receipts for the year so far is $780,
1874, as shown by the report of the
state treasurer. This Is $583,324 in
excess of the total receipts for the
license year 1928.
Two new appeals to keep the city
Ut Hoquiam from acquiring its own
water system by condemnation have
been filed in the state supreme court
by the regon-Washington Water
Service Company.
Oil in well ~ feet deep, near Bat
tie Ground, was reported by Fred Van
dermast, garage man, who said the
oil burned. He did not believe the
we'll would produce oil in commercial
quantities, he said.
Plans for constructing a lift bridg'
over the east fork Of the Hoquian
river near the Woodlawn mill hav'
been forwarded to the federal war de
partment where their approval is con
sidered almost certain.
During the past month 655 license
to hunt elks have been sold in Yakim
county, according to the report of tn
county auditor. BY the end Of tn
open season it is expected that tn
number will approximate that Of las
year, which was 901.
w. B. Mari, who has an orchar
two miles east Of Walla Walla, ha
but three apples on one tree this yea
but one of the apples is so big the
he has challenged all corners. Th
apple is 15A inches in circumference