White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

WI ssSASS ~
The sting of bee was believed to
have caused the death of 8-months-old
John Quimby at Walla Walla.
Two pairs Of twins, born within
three hours, broke all birth records
at st. Joseph's hospital in Vancouver
recently.
r. d. Cook, Tumwater, has been ap-
pointed assessor Of Thurston county.
The vacancy was caused by the death
of John Clifford.
Bids were opened in Olympia re-
recently for eight highway improve
ment projects, The contracts were to
be awarded later.
Entries are being made in the con.
test to select a Miss Wahkiakum to
preside at the annual Labor-day festiv.
tiles at Cathlamet.
( Victor Flanagan, 81, of Carson, was
fatally injured by a premature explo-
sion Of dynamite with which he was
blasting stumps on road work.
Carl lett, county agent Of Waikiki
KUN county for the past 3h years,
has announced his resignation from
the post, taking effect September 1.
A rs per cent dividend to depositors
in the defunct American Securities
bank Of Vancouver was ordered re-
Gently by H. G. Johnson. supervisor
Of banking.
Harvesting in Clark county is prog
ressing favorably and with continued
good weather soon will be completed.
Heavy spring rains resulted in good
yield of hay and grain.
Slipping while playing in the south
fork of the Skykomish river above
Index near Everett, Roy Rasmussen,
16, of Chicago, ILL.,, was swept over
Eagle falls to hfs~ death. -
Seattle may adopt underground wir-
ing for the downtown business dis
-tricts, a bill to appropriate 100000
for the improvement having been in
troduced in the city council.
John Jepsen, 80, a farm hand, is
dead as the result of losing control
of combine harvester which he was
driving on the Louis Kerckoff ranch,
80 miles south, Of Walla Walla.
A gasoline stove burst in a summer
cottage on Lake Stevens and caught
fire, burning L. R. Bigelow about the
legs, and his son Gerold, 3, and the
Bigelow's 14-months-old baby slightly.
Two private cars and motor coach
were involved in an accident near
Sawyer, causing the fatal injury of
James G. Piland, Toppenish barber
AZ, and minor injuries to several
others. ~
September 16 was fixed by the
Yakima city commission for a special
city election to name Is freeho1ders
to draft a new charter providing for
city manager government as first,
class city.
Every able-bodied man in northern
Chelan county was being drafted into
service to fight the 12,000-acre Chelan
national forest fire, which was break.
Ing out anew on the Lake Chelan wa
tershed. Only rain would control
the fire, it was believed.
With work practically completed or
the Washington trestle approach tt
the Longview Columbia river bridge
equipment is being moved to the Ore
gon side. The north approach is 261s
feet long, and the south shore trestle
will be about 1900 feet in length,
The canning plant Of the Washing
ton Growers cooperative at Vancou
yer will start in a few days on pears
shipped from Yakima, it was an
nounced. Local pears will not be
available for about two weeks but {
large block Of Yakima pears and ever
green blackberries will probably keel
the plant operating until local pear
and prunes are ripe.