White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-22
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedfo for
Our Readers.

the Week C0IIectedfor
Our Readers.
steelheads have started their annua
run up the Yakima river.
Mayor Wegner of Pullman has ap
pointed committee to make sur
vey of the possibilities Of municipal
lighting plant.
While cleaning window in his Of
flee Sheriff Schafer of Ritzville fell
IL feet from the window, bruising his
head and hip.
The contract has been let for the
new History addition to the Daven
port hotel at Spokane. The estimated
cost is $25O,OOO.
A Scent gasoline tax is assured
Washington motorists by the approval
by Governor Hartley of the farm-to.
market road bill.
AS a result Of the dry winter the
reservoirs Of the Sunnyside irrigation
district contain 1O2,20O acre feet less
than at this time last year.
Five thousand acres along the
shores Of Moses lake will be certain
of supply Of water with the compile
tion of the dam below Neppel.
Four large tracts embracing, more
than 1000, 100000 feet of merchantable
timber in the Quinault reservation will
be offered for sale Immediately.
| Most Of the stores of Chehalis and
| Centralia will close at o'clock Sat
urday nights, as a result of an organ
lied movement among the clerks.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Mabton
are concentrating their efforts on
cleaning up their property in prepare
ton for the coming work in the fields.
Work of razing the Rankin hotel, a
two-story frame structure, which was
Kelso's pioneer hotel, will be started
soon, DR.. A. F. V. Davis announced.
"Frost boils" in the gravel roads Of
Yakima county are causing the county
engineer much worry. 1t has been
necessary to close some highways
temporarily.
The committee in charge of the
American Legion swimming pool at
| Prosser has voted to spend $1,000 in
Improvements, making a total invest
ment of $4,000.
R. B. Pelletier was appointed by the
Yakima city commission as superin-
tendent of parks and Fairgrounds. He
succeeds Daniel Bean, who died sew.
eral months ago.
People from all over the country
have been driving to Marcus to see
the damaged railroad bridge across
the Columbia. The piled-up ice is {
sight we'll worth seeing.
The road from Leavenworth to Lake
Wenatchee is reported open by the
forest service and is in fair condition
This is the earliest in the season that
the road has opened up.
1t is estimated 200 acres will be
planted to tomatoes in the Walla Wal
la valley this year, so per cent in
crease over last year. More than 8
million plants will be set out.
Two dollars for extra fancy Wine
saps out of cold storage, loaded OF
cars at Wenatchee, is predicted b.
holders. On the other hand, buyers
declare that the present price is TOT
high.
For injuries received when her au
tomobile collided with a stage on thu
Prosser-Grandview highway, damages
to the amount of $11,650 have beer
awarded Florence Keylon in superio
. court.
Yakima county motorists will pa,
$125,00O, of which 100000 will COM
, back to the road fund Of this county
for every 1-cent-a-gallon tax on case
! line, according to computation b.
County Engineer Brashears.
The Walla Walla county game cor
mission has offered reward Of $40
for information leading to the arres
and conviction of the person who Kill
ed bull elk in the Touchet distrlc
extracted the teeth and abandone
the carcass.
The department Of commerce 8
r Washington, d. c., has called on Eve
e Ign Nelson, Klickitat county audito
] for maps showing territory in Kick
9 tat county now embraced within til
boundaries of the Yakima Indian re-
= ervation. The communication state
that the reservation has been throw
open to settlement and will cease
exist as a reservation. The territor
r involved is situated on the north sloI
I Of the Simcoe mountain range an
! is mostly timbered and pastoral are
q Solicitors for. the Yakima chambt
a of commerce have signed up 1900 tor
g of pears for the Oregon Packing cor
r pany, but need 1900 tons more to me-
d the conditions under which the COZ
d pany will erect, a packing plant ar
y cannarY there ~ ------.- ~.