White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-07-12

from an OYerheateQ hue ana the re-
sultant excitement caused the death
of Mrs. Fassett, from heart disease.
James A. Davis, district highway
engineer for the Olympia Peninsula.
Grays Harbor and Thurston counties,
has been removed from office, eff
fective Monday, Samuel ]. Humes,
state highway director, announced.
Crushed between rolling logs at the
greenwood logging camps up the
Wishkah river, Fred Hesse, 81, high
climber for that timber company, was
instantly killed. He was standing on
top of deck Of logs when they start
ed rolling.
Half rate automobile licenses were
placed on sale in Washington July !
and 200 motorists, who had delayed
obtaining licenses, were given permits
at Vancouver the first day. New drly-
er's licenses must be obtained before
August 1.
Another gold rush in the Crawford
district Of Clark county, near Battle
Ground, has been limited, which has
resulted in GA quartz mining claims
being filed with the county auditor
by w. r. Pearsall and Hattie r. Pear
sail on behalf of their friends.
The Grays Harbor county commits
sioners at their meeting in Montesano
recently received petitions from the
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs Of Aberdeen
urging that they find means for in
creasing the capacity Of Oakhurst Tu-
berculosis sanitorium at Elma.
The Ellensburg bureau Of reclama-
tion has announced that bids on con-
struction Of division of the north
branch canal, approximately 18 miles
in length and irrigating approximate
ly $4,000 acres Of land, will be opened
in the Ellensburg office August 8.
The 1929 apple crop in the Wenat-
chez district will total 1927 cars, or
1891 cars less than in 1928, District
Horticulturist George Harter announc-
ed after careful survey. Figures
were obtained from 81 shipping points
in the district. The 1928 crop total
ed 21,S1S cars, the largest ever pro-
duced.
blackjack" Rowden, wanted for the
murder Of miner, was shot to death
by Sheriff Brewer in the cabin from
which he had "stood OFF, posse for
IL hours. Pend Oreille county Off
GERS surrounded his cabin in the wild
country of Metaline Falls, near the
Canadian border, following the killing
of Harry Friedlund.
The Long-Bell Lumber company will
make Aberdeen its headquarters as
buying station for hemlock, jack pine,
fir, and spruce cones for seed pur-
poses, it was announced recently. The
cones are to be gathered when they
ripen, about August 1, and prices rang
ing from $3.50 to $3.50 sack de-
livered, will be paid.
A family Of three was wiped out
when Great Northern through
freight train crashed into an automo-
bile at Lamona crossing, ten miles
east Of Odessa. Mr.. and Mrs. G. C.
Schirber, Crab creek farmers, were
killed outright and their 14-year-old
daughter Antoinette died in sur
geon's office an hour later.
Gain of $1S2,161 in deposits in the
four Yakima banks is shown in COM
parison Of the statement just issued
| with the one at the corresponding date
last year. The statement compiled in
response to call Of the comptroller
of currency shows deposits amounting
to $10,865,564. Loans and discounts
show an increase from $6,S30,183 to
| S7041, 1924.
At an auction held at the courthouse
in Montesano, County Auditor Camp
bell sold for the state the timber on
two parcels of land and one piece Of
land itself. The largest Of these was
bid in by the Poison Logging COM
pany of Hoquiam for S114,975. The
smaller timber tract was bought by
the Northwest Lumber company of
Hoquiam for $13,127.
Permission to operate busses be-
tween Longview and Ryderwood via
the Olequa toll bridge and through
Vader is sought in an application pre-
sented by the Longview, Portland &
Northern railway to the interstate
commerce commission. If the request
is granted the motor car now being
operated between Longview and Ry-
derwood will be abandoned.
Walla Walla banks have on deposit
$11,33O, 465.83, the call from the comp
troller of currency revealed. This is
about one-third of million less than
at the same time last year. Lateness
of the season and slowness Of money
to come back from early fruit and
vegetable shipments, which are now
going out, is given as the cause for
the lesser amount on deposit.
Scores of pioneer residents from
all parts of Grays Harbor gathered at
the Samuel Benn estate near Aber-
deem to felicitate the city's founder