White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-31
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIlectedfor
Our Readers.

With the warm sunshine of the pas
few days, roses are making their az
pearance in Longview.
Camas will have free mail deliver.
beginning July 1, according to instruc
ton sent to Postmaster N. M. Fiei'
from Washington, D. G.
Charles Buchanan, "a, Hoquiam me
chanic, was fatally injured recent.
when struck by hit-and-run driver al
he left dance hall in Aberdeen.
Charles H. Fry, 7S, who crossed the
plains in covered wagon as an in
FAINT in 1850, is dead at his Cosmopolii
home where he had lived all his life
The Holden Copper Mine property
on Railroad creek in Chelan county
has been transferred to the Howe
Sound Mining company of British Co
lumbia.
| Poison gas generated by burners II
the underground distillery Of H. II
Fellows nearly claimed the life Of q
deputy sheriff who entered the dugout
at Cheney.
State land and timber valued at
| $375,125 will be sold June 4 by State
Land Commissioner Savidge. The
timber is valued at $339,263 and the
land at $29,790.
Cashmere's last car of apples for the
1928 season was loaded out recently
for shipment, winding up the largest
crop ever produced in the Cashmere
valley, 2441 cars.
Union Pacific Stages, Inc, has pur-
chased from H. s. Hawley for $4,000
the Pasco-U matilla motor bus line. The
line is 1873 miles long and makes two
trips each way daily.
Carl Hafner, IA, saved three boys
from drowning in lake at Spokane
but was unable to rescue the father
of two Of the lads, who drowned as he
tried to reach a rowboat.
The 1929 city directory issued by R.
L. Polk & Co. gives the population Of
Spokane as 1916, or 51S6 more than
the population estimated by the cham
Der of commerce at the close of 1927.
At the May day child health clinic
In Ritzville sc children were examined.
Lacrosse, Cornell, Washtucna and
Warden children were in the clinic,
the youngest being only seven weeks
old.
Fire recently destroyed the Silver
Spring lodge at Silver Creek near
Enumclaw, causing a loss of $4,000
to the owner, Don Espen, who an
nounces that the lodge will be rebuilt
at once.
The Northern Pacific spur from
Vancouver to Yacolt has been extend
ed into the Larch mountain timber
belt, from which it will draw thous
ands of feet of virgin timber into the
lumber trade.
Nearly 100000 books were Dor
rowed from the Seattle public library
last year. In 1928 there were 10O,222
patrons and the average borrowing
for the entire population Of the city
was 7.3 books.
Search is being made for Albert e.
Wild, AZ, paymaster Of the Seattle
municipal railway, who has been miss
ing from his home for more than
week. He is said to be short $2654
in his accounts.
Surviving members Of the Snoqual-
mie tribe of Indian held tribal reun-
ion at Tolt Sunday. The call for the
reunion was made by Chief Jerry
Keenum. 1t was the first meeting of
the tribe in 60 years.
An increase of nearly so per cent in
the size originally planned for the
Fisher Body Corporations woodwork
ing plant now under construction In
Seattle brings the corporations in
vestment to $5,00O,000.
During the past week half an inch
of rain fell on 100000 acres of winter
and spring wheat in the Big Bend
country and another rain in June will
insure bounteous crops. according to
word from Waterville.
Stevenson & Anderson, Cape Horn
contractors, have received a contract
from the county commissioners of Ska.
mania county to build modern high
way connecting the Mount Pleasant
district with the North Bank state
highway along the Columbia river.
Construction work will begin west of
McPhearson's store. Heavy grades
and dangerous curves on the present
road from the hills will be eliminated.
Special equipment for generating
electric current for the Burkey fish
diverters, placed in the Sunnyside,
Wapato and Tieton canals, mas been
received by the Yakima county game
commission and will be Installed at
once.
The third annual caravan Of the
Western Washington Hotel Mems as
ISOLATION and west side chambers of
commerce ended in Yakima recently