White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-01
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedf0r
Our Readers.

The Yakima chamber Of commerce
has approved budget amounting to
$32, 1000 for chamber activities in 1929.
The Elks of Wenatchee during 1927
1928 spent $3.50 for transportation OF
crippled children to the orthopedic
hospital in Seattle. Care for them
amounted to S4513.
Mayor Tennent Of Tacoma has pre-
sented his resignation to the city coun'
Gil, with the ultimatum that 1t be &C
copied or that Corporation Counsel
Murray be discharged.
The Unity Purity Stores is another
chain Of retail grocers just organized
at Spokane with membership OF 90
units and estimated annual retail sales
OF more than $25,OOO,OOO.
John Gallagher, so, connected with
the Great Northern railway, was killed
recently at Bellingham when a speeder
on which he was riding was struck by
the engine of work train.
Hard times are being felt by the cul-
mary department Of the county jail at
Vancouver. There are only 20 prison
ers in jail, and quota Of 25 is needed
to break even with expenses.
A census just completed by the dis
trict horticulturist shows that in Walla
Walla there are HOPPE apple trees on
1877 acres, and in Columbia county
Al, 1859 trees on 573 acres.
George Hendricks, Yakima valley
sheep man, has taken a big band
across the Columbia at Hanford on
the ice, and expects to cross a second
band before the ice breaks up.
James Thomas Woods. ", died in
Pioneer heights, near Pullman, follow
ing two weeks illness. Mr.. Woods
was pioneer of Whitman county, liv-
ing in or near Pullman AZ years.
G. P. Pollard, SO, was killed by the
discharge of his shotgun at his home
at Prescott recently. The top of his
head was blown off. Relatives state
they know no reason for suicide.
Blocking of the highway between
Colfax and Dodge prevented operation
of the stage running from Walla Walla
to Spokane by way Of Colfax. Drift
ing snow was given as the cause.
An unidentified man was killed in
Spokane when his automobile crashed
into a street car. Two companions,
police were informed, got out Of the
wrecked automobile and ran away.
The value of crops Of the Yakima
4 Indian reservation totals $S,24S,64 for
1928, according to l.. M. Holt, super
j vising engineer. The Wapato unit
leads with crops valued at s4,63S,701
Roger, the 1S-year-o1d son Of F. G.
, Sheraton, president of the Security
National bank of Everett, was instant.
ly killed when an automobile in which
he was riding overturned near Sultan
The secretary of state at Olympia
has granted the Ridgefield, Sara and
l. Vancouver Farmers Union Telephone
company authority to change it's name
= to the Ridgefield Telephone company
Linden Clara Pasma, one of thu
n worlds greatest Holstein cows, owned
e by Henry Bouchard of Silver Creek
r died last week, following an accident
u according to word received at Che
e halls.
- Mildred, the 9-year-old daughter o
R. A. Cornell, is missing from he
n home in Yakima and authorities be
# lieve she has been kidnapped by he
If mother, a divorced wife living in Cali
Is fornia.
d Anton Topvitz, IS, fireman at tn
u Gypsum Products company plant
- Seattle, was whirled to his death whe
his coat caught in the shaft of me-
- chine. Every bone in his body wa
:" broken.
N Owing to the spread Of rabies anon
coyotes in sections Of eastern Wasf
ington, eight additional governmer
hunters have been assigned to Ferr.
- Lincoln, Douglas, Grant and Adam
counties.
Rejecting e. M. Fisher as it's pres
10 dent, the Yakima Valley Bushes
es Mems association has chosen o.
,s Gibson as vice president, Joe Koh
NJ as treasurer and Lawrence Wood 6
no secretary.
~ Because Of the hindrance to trait
~ on the Pacific highway, the ordinane
RI compelling motorists to come to fu
Is stop when passing Shumway junit
e high school was modified by the Va
couver city council to permit spec
of ten miles an hour, with no full sto
This also will apply to other school
ne The Northwestern Electric compa1
ed has made application to the state hig
rs way department for franchise to co
ne struct power transmission line alol
the Pacific highway from the kalan
GU river to the southerly city limits
~ Kelso.
The "silver horde" of smelt in tt
re- Columbia river is hugging the botto
d. and gradually working up stream, {
RS cording to reports at Kelso. So +
the smelt have given no Indicate