White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-04-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

OuF ncdutIS.
The voters of Everett will vote Ma,
4 on 100000 bond issue to install
new water supply system.
William Morton. SO, pioneer of tn
Medical lake region, was burned t.
death in his home there last week.
Dealers and growers have united t.
battle to finish the proposed increase
In freight rates on hay from the Yaki
ma valley.
Sheet metal workers at Bellinghan
have gone on strike against SO day
scale instead of $40, which has beer
in effect since March /.
Plans are being made for the com
prehensive development of the port OF
Anacortes, entailing an approximate
expenditure Of $15O,O00.
Walla Walla's second annual air
derby will be held May "a, rs and 26
The new municipal airport will be
dedicated on this occasion.
Contracts for growing 5000 acres OF
white beans for one of the largest
canneries in the United States are be-
ing awarded to farmers in the Okano-
gan region.
Farmers in the Winona district esti.
mate that at least rs per cent of the
fall wheat will have to be reseeded.
Weather conditions are also bad for
spring wheat.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company will spend $4,000 on con.
struction work to increase long dis
lance service between Colfax and
Walla Walla.
Joseph Thomas, Aberdeen's shoe
maker poet, whose verse often won
wide acclaim, hanged himself to a
barn rafter on a Satsop farm. He
was in ill health.
Washington dairymen in their haste
to rehabilitate their herds are raising
too many heifers that will never be
milk cows, according to DR.. Prior, su.
pervisor Of dairies.
Leonard Funk, commissioner of pub
lie works, who has held that offica
for many years, is to be mayor OF
Spokane when the new city commits.
sioners take office June 3.
Deposits in Grays Harbor banks for
the first three months of the year
show large gains. The total deposits
are $15,562,994, gain Of 100000 over
the figures for the close Of 1928.
Applications for enrolment in the
Citizens Military Training camp at
Vancouver barracks, July to July 81,
are pouring in and the quota, 565, will
be filled early, officers stated recently.
Another Of Whitman county's pio-
neer school districts has come to an
end by being consolidated with the
Pine City district. The new district
has an assessed valuation of $1,125,.
600.
The reforestation program Of the
Long-Bell Lumber company, which
calls for the seeding of 1000 acres OF
cut over land in the Ryderwood dis
trict, Is being rushed, with so men at
work.
The state park committee lacks even
sufficient money to fence in the build
ings in state parks that will be closed
the next two years as result of the
veto of the appropriation by Governor
Hartley.
AS a tribute to the memory of Chief
George Meneinock, who died two years
ago, Yakima Indians will. hold tribal
ceremony and gala day at the tribal
burial grounds on Status creek, Decora
tion day.
A fire truck has been authorized
purchased by the Cathlamet city coun
Gil. A truck chassis will be purchased,
a special body built and the neces
sary fire-fighting equipment will be
purchased.
Despite wheat worth $1,500,000 re-
mains unsold in warehouses Of the
county, bank deposits at Walla Walla,
March II, totaled $11,6S1 900, an in.
crease of $271,OOO over last year at
the same period.
There are $4,000 acres of agricul
tural lands under irrigation in Wash
ington. Irrigable lands awaiting de-
velopment are estimated at 2,5S5,900
acres, according to Supervisor of Hy
draulics Tiffany.
The Oh Kaye Knitted and Rayon
Products company, which has operat
ed in Spokane since 1912 under the
name Of the Spokane Knitting Mills,
will be located in Longview on or
about July of this year.
Nine high school boys, all sons of
prominent families, were arrested at
Mount Vernon for stealing liquor.
They were under the influence of In
toxicants at the time and confessed to
other liquor thefts and to several
house robberies involving money.
A weather man will be stationed
this summer in Low divide, high In
the Olympic mountains. Equipment
for meteorological station will be