White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-03
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
One hundred and fifty-two beaver
pelts have been sold by the Yakima
game commission on the Seattle mar
ket for $4,150.
The Yakima Fruit Growers asso
citation will issue 100000 in bonds fol
construction of new warehouse in
the Sawyer district.
The summer school at Pullman will
open June 10 and continue until August
8 with 40 faculty members offering
instruction in more than 20 fields.
Thurston county's annual fair will
be held September 6, and at the
Tenino fair grounds. The budget al
lows 500 for community exhibits.
Othello was visited for two hours
recently by windstorm- that turned
over several buildings, blew down
fences and did much other damage.
A six-day convention of forest super
visors opened last Friday at a spe
cially prepared camp IL miles from
Randle in the Big Bottom country.
More than s2,0OO,OO0 is to be spent
by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company in placing in operation a new
central telephone building in Tacoma
by 1881.
Twenty state highway engineers
have started work on survey of the
| Grand Mound lma road, for which
| the last state legislature appropriated
| $217, 900.
A table compiled by the state de
partment Of labor and industries shows
that Washington's 1928 payroll was
| $270, 839,665, an increase Of $15, 169, 73t
over 1927.
! e. L. Peck Of Centralia is president
Of the Grand Mound Fruitgrowers' as
ISOLATION, organized last year, ant
which did business Of $25O,OOO It'll
first season.
| The first shipment of Chinese pleas
| ant eggs, 1000, has been made from
the western Washington game farm
| to Wahkiakum county, where they will
be Matched.
Mrs. Mary Myers, Sc, was burned
| to death when fire destroyed her home
near Ford, presumably because she
| rushed into the blazing house to save
cache Of money.
| A lung motor and other first aiG
treatment failed to revive Fred Mems
18, when his car left a small bridge
near Mount Vernon and pinned hin
beneath the water below.
Yakima Rotarians, at their meeting
recently, Endorsed the suggestions Of
committee that $500 be donated to tn
Yakima junior college for purchase
needed laboratory equipment.
Big Jim, Indian, IS, resident of Jack
ass canyon for many years, is dead
according to word received from Okan
ogan. His body was found by part,
of Indians who had called to see him
Three boy scouts of Troop 8, Pat
eros, found den of thirty-six rattle
snakes behind the high school ant
T Of
more. One had IA rattles and button
A 14-year-old Indian girl, Nellie
daughter of Mrs. Romeo Joe, has bee
declared champion speller of Skagi
county, and will enter the finals 70
the grade school championship Of tn
state.
Sheep shearing is in full swing il
the Roosevelt community and al
bands doubtless will be shorn in few
days. Reports indicate very ligh
yield but those who have sold receive,
a good price.
Believed to have fallen into tn
water while playing alone on a raft Q
logs, the body of William, 7-year-ol
son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Brown wa
found floating in Lake Whatcom nea
Silver Beach.
The prison cannery at Walla Wall
Is being put in condition and will be
gin it's seasons run about May Is,
was announced by Clarence E. Long
prison superintendent. Work Wi
start on spinach and rhubarb.
The Clear Lake lumber mill nea
Mount Vernon, now part of the $40
100000 merger of northwest pulp an
lumber interests, will resume opera
tons some time in May after shu
down of more than two years.
The 37th annual convention. Of tn
Columbia conference Of the Augustan
Synod of the Lutheran church wa
held in Tacoma recently with dele
gates in attendance from Oregon
Washington and British Columbia.
The Longview public port doc
showed an operating profit Of $781.5
for the month of March, according
report just made public by POI
Manager Frank Gowdy. During tn
month ~ ocean-going vessels used tn
dock.
Ben Wilson, Tom Fairchild and {