White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-04-26
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The West Coast Hotel company has
taken out permit at Wenatchee Cor
the erection Of a new hotel to cost
$3SO,O0O.
Peter Wheeler Of Wenatchee, sheriff
of Chelan cocnty, was arrested at
Reardan and fined $40 and costs on a
charge Of speeding.
The Oregon Packing company has
started work on it's cannery at Yaki-
ma, which will furnish employment
for 900 men and women this fall.
Cherry trees Of the district are near
ing the full bloom stage, according to
Harold Rathbone, in charge of the
frost warning service at Walla Walla.
The Ryderwood Womans club has
purchased six sets of books, including
"a volumes Of standard fiction and an
encyclopedia, for the Ryderwood COM
munity library.
The annual Goldendale- Toppenish
picnic and good roads meeting will be
held on June in natural park on
Status creek on the Buena-Maryhill
state highway.
Claiming the valuations were too
high, the S. P. & s. Railway company
has filed suit against eight Washing
ton counties for relief from alleged
excessive taxes.
Fifteen hop growers of the Yakima
district have formed an association to
further their interests. Prospects are
for large crop next fall, but the price
outlook is not reassuring.
Seventy-five men in the Spokane
valley have signed up to form the
largest strawberry pool ever known
in the valley, A vegetable and cante-
loupe pool will also be formed.
Mrs. Vern Swank, residing in re-
mote part Of Asotin county, was car
ried on stretcher through three miles
Of snow to get her to sled and then
taken 40 miles to a physician.
Worry over the accusation of man
who claimed she had taken $500 of his
money led to the suicide at Spokane
Of Mrs. Florence Critzer, whose dead
body was found in her hotel room.
The state highway department suf-
fered loss of $4,000 when fire broke
out in the garage at Wenatchee and
destroyed two trucks, one tractor and
three touring cars. The garage will
be rebuilt.
The Port Angeles Western railway
built during the World war by the
United States Spruce Production cor
, poration, is being extended from Lake
, Pleasant to Forks in Clallam county
) distance of nine miles.
r. s. Durkee, of Battle Ground, was
elected president of the Clark county
fair board, Chaplin A. Mills of Van.
couver, vice-president, and O. Him OF
Washougal, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, at a
recent meeting Of the board.
State Treasurer Potts announces
that net gasoline taxes for 1928 to
tailed $4,174,557, as compared with So,
803.696 in 1927, an increase of $3.50,
861. Collections since the inception
of the tax in 1921 total $19,625,636.
J. The Long-Bell Lumber company ex
r poets to start construction soon of {
single mill in Longview with ca
: pacity Of 100000 shingles per 16-hou1
shift, to replace the present expert
mental floating mill, which has beer
= in operation for the last five years.
e Mayor G. L. Mathews of Mount Yer
: non issued a proclamation setting
aside all of this week as "cleanu1
i week" in Mount Vernon. Boy Scouts
service clubs and other organization.
= have been asked to cooperate in til,
+, campaign to make Mount Vernon tn,
g cleanest city in that section of tn,
, state.
t For several days a flock of 80 t,
II 40 white swans has attracted the al
y tention of people crossing the Whit
Salmon-Hood River bridge, as well a
;, residents on either shore. During tn
y day the birds seem to remain in on
r spot, about 200 yards north of tn
J. bridge in mid-stream, where the cul
u rent is swift.
q The annual spring conclave Of til
Columbia river tribe of Indians is nov
in progress at Rock Creek, near Roose
+ welt. Representatives from Oregon
Washington and Idaho are presen
with followers from the Yakima, Co
vile, Umatilla, Nez Perez and Colun
=, bia tribes. The scarcity Of horses
u a noticeable feature of the gathering
o. as most of the Indians travel in carr
~ The Walla Walla farm bureau ha
10 agreed to work with the county con
= missioners in suggesting roads whic
- are to be improved under the 10-yea
. program of building farm marke
roads.
Robert Stott, justice Of the peac
at Cathlamet, has fined many person
- for defective brakes, but never sci
~ them to jail for the offense. Howeve
4, when Sheriff Fredericksen arreste
n Stott for faulty brakes on his car,