White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-07-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
Five thousand people from all parts
of the Inland Empire attended the an
nual Uniontown Livestock exposition
held at Uniontown.
Longview added another payroll re-
Gently when the Oh Kaye Rayon and
Knitted Products company started
operating its mill there.
Eleven carloads of lambs, the first
stable movement from the Yakima
valley this season, are on the way
from White Swan to Chicago.
The st. Helens garage at Longview
was reduced to ashes in fire OF I'M
determined origin, which presumably
started in the battery department.
Two Richland girls, Velma Wick
wire and Rosemary Witherrite, IA and
IL years, were drowned in the Yakima
river several miles west Of Richland.
Cool weather and June rainfall IN
the eastern Klickitat county wheat
belt have greatly increased crop pros
poets, according to reports from
Bickleton.
L. ]. Weatherwax, owner Of the To-
ledo Telephone Exchange is asking
a new 25-year franchise of the city.
This present franchise will expire
next April.
DR.. J. E. vanderpool took over the
position of Walla Walla city-county
health officer, succeeding DR.. George
H. T. Sparkling, resigned, who is NOV
ing to the coast.
Famed by a high wind, seven
houses in Kalama burned with a loss
estimated at $4,000. The Kelso and
Kalama fire departments fought the
blaze and kept it from spreading.
The Thurston County Taxpayers as
sociation went on, record as opposing
the construction OF a new county
courthouse in Olympia until the coun-
ty tax situation was in sound condi-
ton.
Mrs. Ada Adams, 60, bed-ridden
invalid, was burned to death in her
apartment in Seattle. The aged wo-
man had been smoking a cigarette,
which dropped in the bed clothing and
ignited 1t.
Mount Rainier foiled attempts to re-
cover the body of Forrest Greathouse.
national park guide, who, with Edwin
A. Wetzel, lost his life recently when
they fell with four others into a 100
foot crevasse.
Resistance of 100000 in bonds for
the purchase Of the domestic water
distribution system was authorized
by the Hoquiam city council. The
bonds will be Of tke revenue type and
will be retired in rs years.
Hoquiam banks, responding to the
recent call of the comptroller of cur
rency for statements, announce gains
totaling 100000 in deposits since the
March call and approximately the
same increase in total resources.
Max Knopp, 81, son Of Heinrich
Knopp of Underwood, was burned
probably fatally when he threw fire.
cracker into gasoline tank which he
thought was empty. The gasoline ex.
ploded and ignited the youths cloth.
ing.
William A. Doelle, Cashmere hard
ware man, and David Koonz, rancher,
were burned to death in a forest fire
ten miles west of Wenatchee. They
were trapped in the fire, which was
reported to be burning in cutoyer
land.
The Clark County General hospital,
erected at Vancouver during the past
year, will open it's doors to the pub
lie about August according to an
nouncement made recently. Sufficient
funds and pledges have been secur-
ed from individuals and organizations
to equip at least 15 rooms and the
necessary operating and laboratory de.
partments.