White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-08
WASHINGTON NEWS
lTEMS-.OF. INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected tor
Our Readers.

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of snow prevents.
The Benton Telephone company, or
ganized at Prosser in 1907, was sold
last week to the Oregon Washington
Telephone company for $37,9S0.
The Central Washington Mining
Council has completed plans for the
erection Of $4,000 ore reduction
plant at Winnicut lake in Okanogan
county.
Snowfall in the forest area south
of Dayton is SO per cent below normal
this year, according to F. F. Wehrmey'
er, district ranger Of the Umatilla
forest.
The war department at Washington
has approved the plans of the city Of
Tacoma for bridge across the Puy-
allup waterway at South 21st street
in that city.
The quota of the citizens military
training camp at Vancouver next sum-
mer has been raised from 525 to SOS
by government officials. Camp will
be held from July to 81.
Drifting snow has completely block
ed the highway between Colfax and
Dodge and the stage running from
Walla Walla to Spokane has been
-.
A Washington canning company is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Sedro Woolley cannery with the view
Of operating the plant in conjunction
with the Skagit county berry pool.
A contract to erect a new building
for the Farmers Cooperative cream
cry Of Camas was let to M. T. Boyd
on bid of sS5319O. The contract
does not include plumbing and wiring.
Hugh Anderson of Aberdeen, 40
years old, was found dead recently in
refrigerator car at Spokane. It is
thought he became asphyxiated and
injured himself in an effort to get out
of the car.
Lieutenant Carlton F. Bond, air
corps, United States army, has as
sumed command of Pearson field, re-
lieving Captain Aubrey l. Eagle, who
was transferred to Fort Leavenworth,
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wv. E, Craig ex-Lewis county saw
mill man, has started work on plant
at Fishers, nine miles east of Van.
couver, that will have capacity Of
rs, 900 feet of lumber day and employ
about Is men.
The Jefferson Timber company has
sold to the Poison Logging company
q tract of 12,547 acres of hemlock and
spruce situated in the great wilder.
ness on the western slope of the Olym-
pic mountains.
Customs officials at Aberdeen re-
Gently levied fine Of $31,500 against
the British steamer City Of Victoria
as the result of seizure of 1900 taels
of opium and small stock of bonded
liquor on the vessel.
Cherry growers of Grandview In
Yakima county have formed their 1923
4 cherry pool for marketing the crop
This. is the fifth season the pool has
been formed and it is expected the
pool will reach rs cars.
Negotiations for the merger Of the
First National bank Of Hillyard and
the Hillyard State bank, giving Hill
yard one bank with deposits in excess
of S1,250,O00, have been completed
and will take effect within 80 days.
More than three per cent of the
state college student body is com.
prised of sons and daughters of form
err students of the institution, accord
ing to figures released recently by
Harry Chambers, assistant registrar
Two demonstrations of land clearing
and stump blowing with grange pow
der were held in Cowlitz county re
Gently, in charge of Walter Jensen
: deputy state master of the grange
who has charge of marketing of the
grange powder.
Funeral services were held in Tekoa
for Mrs. Evaline Smith, who died al
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rache
Strange. Mrs. Smith was born il
Boone county, KY, in March, 1S45
and came to Tekoa from California
about so years ago.
A bear which was holed-in in the
burned-out base of large tree was
killed recently with 22-calibre pisto
near Onalaska. The bear was found
by logger who was probing around
the hole with a stick which the ami
NAL knocked out of his hand.
Mrs. Daisy Wallace, whose grand
father, Edmund Carr, was one of the
founders of the University of Wash
ington and the first school superin
tendent of the state, died few days
ago in a. Tacoma hospital, aged AZ
years.
| During the six weeks that Yakima
orchards have been covered with
snow mice have girdled thousands o.
trees. Melting Of the snow during the
past few days has revealed the dam
age. Extensive bridge grating will
be necessary.