White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-10-11
WASHINGTON News.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of.
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Palouse wheat farms are again being
sold for a, high as 500 per acre.
The opening of the hunting season
In Washington took toll of three
lives-those of woman, man and a
boy.
The apple harvest in North Central
Washington is now under way with
10000 persons employed to gather the
18,00O-car crop.
]. P. Johnson, a prune grower OF
Proebstel, has harvested $500 pounds
of prunes from four-acre tract. The
fruit is first class.
Jubilee day will be celebrated at
Pullman, October Is, when the new
Pullman Moscow highway Is to be open
ed to general traffic.
Approximately $4,000 bags Of sugar
will be produced this season by the
Bellingham refinery, which will handle
beets from 2728 acres.
Snow is now visible on some of the
higher peaks east of Walla Walla. A
light fall is reported in some sections
of the Blue mountains.
The commissioners of Clark county
have agreed to furnish $500 with which
to buy seed for farmers burned out by
recent forest fires in the county.
A rs per cent horizontal reduction
in 1929 valuations on some open farm
lands of Yakima county has been or
dered by the state tax commission.
+ No warrant is necessary for arrest
and seizure when ma Is obviously
violating the prohibition law, is a
late opinion of the state supreme court.
Settlement of the controversy over
bank taxes has been made by the King
county commissioners under an agree.
ment that will cause loss of ST.
100000.
The Wenatchee district loss from
worms this year will be four times
greater than last seasons, according
to District Horticultural Inspector
Campbell.
An electric pump has been install
ed at Davenport by the Northern Pa.
cific. 1t will replace the steam pump
used since the railroad was built in
| pioneer days.
The appointment is announced OF
| Seaman Van Vleet of Yakima as SUI
perintendent of the boys training
| school at Chehalis. He will take i'm
mediate charge.
The Ellensburg Chamber Of Com
me .e has called public meeting tt
| discuss the development Of the loca
| airport as an aviation center for Cen
trail Washington.
81 Charles Greenough, Spokane pros
ecuting attorney, has been elected
president of the State Prosecuting AT
torneys' association The 1880 meeting
will be at Spokane
The city commissioners of Wall,
Walla have authorized the city attor
ney to bring suit to compel the stat
auditor to purchase the $4,000 bon'
issue of airport bonds.
| Substantial, support for the apple ad
vertising campaign conducted by tn
Washington Boxed Apple Bureau
being obtained. Growers owning Las
700 boxes have signed up.
| The experimental bean planting Il
the Walla Walla district by eastern
interests has shown that beans cal
be profitably grown in this territor.
under normal conditions.
Fred Kline of Hoquiam got 1876
pound buck in the upper Queets coun
try recently. 1t is the largest dee
shot on the harbor thus far this sea
son, according to reports.
Washington growers have a fine GRO
of cabbage this year, larger than las
year and of good quality. In additio
to supplying local markets liberal SUI
plies are reported to be going t
Manila. Dealers are paying $1.50 pc
hundred at the dock.