White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-22

st. Georges school in Milton, near Ia
coma, was injured fatally. The youth
was filling the tank of tractor at
| the school when the accident hap
pened.
Albert Baker, forest ranger, has re-
turned to Walla Walla from the Bear
creek station on the Walla Walla riv-
er, and said the snow is 20 inches
| deep there and so deep In the hills
that no attempt was made to go fur
ther. He estimates it will take a
month for it to melt.
Mrs. John Bakken, dressmaker, was
injured last week when she fell from
q window ledge to which she was
clinging to escape being burned to
death in a fire in her apartments in
the second story of the Farmers Elk
change building at Second and Main
streets in Walla Walla.
The Columbia river smelt came into
the Cowlitz last week after two years
absence from the stream, and large
catches were made. The main run
Of the smelt has gone into the Lewis
river. The run has been off the mouth
of the Cowlitz for several weeks, and
it is the latest it has been in years.
Musicians from Goldendale, Camas,
Vancouver, Longview and Kelso high
schools met in Vancouver in the au-
ditorium Of the senior high school to
select singers and musicians to rep
resent the schools at the final musical
meet for southwest Washington, to be
held at Olympia the last Of this week.
Ona Peltonen, 81, of the Lewis river
valley, pleaded guilty to stealing a
steer from John Ferguson of Glover
valley and was sentenced to from two
to ten years in the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla by Judge Kirby. He
was caught by posse of farmers who
trailed him and found the carcass of
the steer.
Another 4. cold storage warehouse
with a capacity Of 225 carloads and
specially equipped for the storage of
cannery pears, is to be built this
spring in Yakima. The present plant
Of Warren & Co., purchasing agent
for the Olympic Packing company,
will become part of the new plant.
The cost of the building and site is
put at 100000.
Strawberry plants were partly
thrown out of the ground by frost. but
the extent of the damage has not been
determined, according to reports re-
ceived at the office of the Washington
Growers Packing corporation in Van
couver. Cane berries, which were
damaged by cold during the two pre-
vious winters, apparently escaped the
damage this year.
| Planting early potatoes in Clark
county is under way and farm work
generally is increasing with the adj
vent of spring weather. Seed dealers
report light demand for grade seeds
and backyard gardening is in prog
ress. Only a small acreage is planted
to early potatoes. Late potatoes are
not planted until June on the uplands,
and later on the river bottom.
Harold Rathbone, frost warning ex-
pert of the weather bureau, who has
arrived to begin his third season in
this work at Walla Walla, is arrang-
ing to establish 18 stations at various
points in the valley where daily read.
ings will be taken SO that frost pre-.
dictions can be made. Work will not
be started until fruit buds have pro
crossed enough to make freezing dan
gerous.
Whitman county roads are closed
to trucks and stages Of gross weight
of over 1000 pounds, according to an
order made by the county commits
sioners at special meeting held re-
Gently The maximum had been 1000
pounds until the new order was made
The order does not apply to the roads
in the vicinity of Lacrosse, where the
frost is out and the roads are settling
in good shape.
Four cash registers, two rifles and
safe used when tolls were collected
on the interstate bridge between
Portland, Or, and Vancouver, were
sold by the interstate bridge commits
sion for $406.62. The money will be
divided between Multnomah and Clarl
counties. A final meeting Of the in
terstate bridge commission will bt
held soon for the purpose Of settling
all bills and winding up the affairs
of the toll bridge.
A 2,000,000-candle power beacon TO,
the Seattle-Portland airway will b.
erected at the Longview municipal
airport, located in the Columbia Val
ley Gardens there, the lease for tn
space ndVlHS recently UeeH sl6ueu ".
the aviation division of the Unite'
States department of commerce. TIL
light at Chehalis is now being installed
and it is expected the Longview bea
con will be erected shortly, although
no date has been announced.
Mrs. Norman Foote, teacher at tn
Newton school, Hoquiam, has bee1