White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-06-14
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIIectedtcr
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The city of Yakima will foreclose on
1000 parcels Of land on which local I'M
provement assessments are delinquent.
Official action will be taken early
next month toward the establishment
Of the proposed government air route
between st. Paul and Spokane.
Pioneers Of Washington held their
47th annual reunion in Seattle last
week, with a program sponsored by
the Pioneer association Of Washing
ton.
Examining a gun that wasn't load
ed" Burnett Smith Pike, is, was killed
instantly in Puyallup when q bullet
from the weapon crashed through his
head.
The stork gained nine in May IN
Vancouver over the grim reaper, &C
cording to the report of the city health
officer. There were Is births and 16
deaths.
The water shortage that threatened
federal reclamation units in the Yaki-
ma district has been averted by the
runoff from the watersheds, which has
filled the reservoirs.
The largest shipment Of strawber-
ries for one day from the Kennewick
district was made recently when the
Three Rivers Growers association dis
patched five carloads.
Peter D. McMartin, 20 years old,
said to be the Oldest logger in Sno-
homish county, was instantly killed
when he tainted and fell under the
wheels Of a five-ton truck.
The Long-Bell Lumber company Is
completing an electrically driven shin
gle mill near it's East Fir unit head
mill, and expects to begin operations
in the new plant about June 20.
A property owner cannot protest the
transfer of his property from one
school district to another because his
taxes may be increased, according to
recent decision Of the supreme court.
The National Farmers Union will
establish grain marketing bureau at
Seattle for the handling and exporting
Of wheat and is also considering
livestock commission house at Spo.
kane.
AS a basis for farm management
study on tractor versus horsepower
farming, Is wheat farmers in Walla
Walla county will keep a record Of
operating costs during the present
year.
The Aberdeen Chamber of Com
MERGE will support the Grays Harbor
Woman's club in an effort to have the
government set aside a timber area
near Lake Quinault for a perpetual
park.
One lamb was killed and another
wounded the last of the week when
an animal, believed to be bear, at
| tackled flock of sheep belonging to
| A. N. Fleetwood of Rose Valley, east
| of Kelso.
Yakima valley growers will prob
ably receive more for their pears this
year than last, although production
will be about so per cent less. Prices
should run from $50 to $50 per ton
for Bartletts.
Fire swept the fourth floor Of the
Zellerbach Paper company's ware
house in Spokane, the flames licking
up huge stocks of paper and doing
damage estimated at between $15O,000
and 100000.
Carnivals were barred by the Van
couver city council when a conces-
| sions permit in the vicinity Of Esther
| Short park was given veterans organ
zatons. A three day celebration Of
July is planned.
| Nearly a quarter of an inch of rain
fell near Walla Walla recently. A
| thunderstorm marked the beginning
of the downpour. Farmers assert that
the late downpours have helped grain
crops materially.
Out Of 1913 divorces granted in the
superior court of Clark county last
year not single alimony has been
allowed. In the eight years that Judge
Simpson has been on the bench he has
never granted alimony.
Nine automobile freight and passen-
ger lines have been ordered to show
cause to the department of public
works why their certificates should
not be revoked for failure to file state
ments Of gross operating revenue.
After almost two years of prelimin-
airy survey work, word was definitely
given out at Raymond that the pro
posed North river power project, a
Sanderson & Porter enterprise, will
be constructed and that work will
start Immediately.
Washington state grangers, in con-
vention at Spokane recently, elected
Albert s. Goss Of Seattle to his eighth
term as master and heard Carl Laney,
secretary Of the state farm bureau
federation, plead for organization to
obtain lower freight rates.
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