White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-06-21
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mary o'Donnell, 96,
Q resident of Battle Ground district
since 1859, died at her home there.
Yakima citizens have presented q
large petition to the city council to
prohibit cigarette bill board adver-
Using.
A preliminary women's walking race
to select Longview representatives to
compete at race in Astoria was held
at Longview.
Despondent because Of i'll health,
Roland BARLEY, AZ. of Meskill. COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor.
Forty-five colonies Of bees belonging
to Townsend & Sons, Elma apiarists,
have been destroyed by bears within
the past five weeks.
The commissioners Of Douglas coun-
ty have decided to place a bounty on
rattlesnakes. Douglas is the first
county to take such action.
Work on the new steel bridge span
ming the Kalama river for the Pacific
highway is rapidly nearing compile
ton. It will be finished by July I.
Hay growers of the Walla Walla
valley are expecting high prices this
fall. There Is no carry-over from last
year and acreage has been reduced.
The city Of Centralia has been made
defendant in second suit growing
out Of construction of its million-dollar
hydro-electric plant on the Nisqually
river.
Edward d. Duff, pioneer merchant
Of Bremerton for over 30 years, is In
the city hospital with bullet hole IN
his head as result Of suicide at
tempt.
A total Of $4,000 will be needed to
carry on boy scout work at Vancouver
for the next year, and drive to raise
the budget will start Monday and con-
tinue for one week.
Virtual extinction Of an industry
with a property value Of more than
$1,OOO,00O up to two years ago is con-
ceded after a careful check of the
Mason county oyster beds.
A big black bear that was using the
main south side highway, inside the
city limits Of Aberdeen, as travel
route the other day, nearly caused
the wreck of two automobiles.
Five more members of the alleged
Grays Harbor liquor ring surrendered
at the United States mashals office
in Tacoma and were sent to the fed
eral penitentiary at Mcneil island.
An innovationtn the employment Of
women in some departments of the
planning operations is being considered
by officials Of the. Weyerhaeuser Tim
Der company for its Longview mills.
A spectacular fire recently threat
ened two Of the chief business blocks
of Montesano and destroyed three
buildings. Only the fact that there
was no wind prevented a general con-
flagration.
Suits for the recovery Of incorpora-
ton annual license fees paid under the
sliding scale have been filed in the
Thurston county court against the
state Of Washington by the Standard
Oil company.
Suit has been filed in the federal
court at Tacoma to obtain an injunc-
ton restraining the city of Centralia
from diverting the waters of the Mis-
qually river for development of a
power project.
B. F. Huntington, 80, pioneer of Cow
litz county, died at Castle Rock, where
he had lived for 70 years. He was
born at Muncie, Ind, and with his
father, William Huntington, crossed
the plains in 1852.
Apple thinning has started in the
Grandview district. Some of the or
chards have heavy settings and others
light. Some apricot growers have also
found 1t necessary to thin in order to
produce fruit of good size.
The j. H. Pomeroy company, which
has the contract for erecting the steel
on the Columbia river Longview
bridge, Wednesday placed the first
piece, vertical piece on a concrete
pier near the Oregon shore line. Most
Of the first steel to be erected will
be placed on the Oregon side.
More than 40 employees of the Har-
rison dye works in Seattle fought their
way to the open air through lanes OF
burning clothes when an explosion Of
gasoline turned the dry cleaning
works into seething inferno.
The North Central Washington
Growers association, non-profit or
ganization, has 1909 contracts. repre-
senting go per cent Of the gross apple
tonnage of the district. An additional
10 per cent is needed to allow the per
manent organization to proceed.
Estimates compiled in the planning
offices of the Puget Sound navy yard
show that approximately s10,000,00C
will be spent in general maintenance
at this yard during 1929 OF this
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