White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-04-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

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possible.
Prosser is to have cucumber salt
ing station II sufficient acreage Ii
signed up.
Plans for 20 miles of new road work
have been made by the Yakima coun
~ commissioners.
Lieutenant Governor Gellatly and
family were in the first car over the
Snoqualmie pass this year.
The date for the annual agricultural
and livestock show at Pullman has
been tentatively set for May 3.
Definite and immediate action has
been started at Walla Walla to raise
funds to build community airport.
All, Grays Harbor towns have been
closed to gambling by county officials
and police Of Hoquiam, Aberdeen and
Montesano.
Indians in the White Swan district
have celebrated the first appearance
Of wild rice in the district with dances
and dinners.
Plans have been made at Kennewick
to serve luncheon to 1000 persons
when the special marketing train ar
rives, early in May.
A 10 years. plan Of road construc
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Walla county commissioners under the
new farm-t o-market law.
Ground has been broken at Peshas
tin for new 100000 sawmill that
will rise from the ashes Of the one
destroyed by fire in 1927.
Professional hunters operating in
the state under the direction of the
biological survey killed 70 coyotes and
one bob-cat during February.
Apportionment of state school funds
as to March 20 amounted to $713,99S
as compared with $855,6O7 for the cor
responding month last year.
Yakima city school directors have
approved a blanket insurance policy
for $1,17O,798 covering 80 per cent of
the valuation of district No. Z.
Frank Radmaker, for the past four
years superintendent Of schools at
Mckee, has been elected to head the
Vader schools the coming year.
The Whatcom County Dairymen's
association is considering marketing
its beef animals through the North.
west Meat Packers association.
The Clark county commissioners
have purchased a rock crusher and
equipment for the gravel pit on the
McAllister tract near Glenwood.
The supreme court has upheld the
right of a person to walk on the gravel
or earth shoulders Of paved high
way where no sidewalk is provided.
Potato growers at Toppenish favor
control by farmers of the grading from
producer to consumer. This will re-
luire compulsory branding of sacks.
Driven by gale from the north
west one Of the worst hail storms of
the season struck Vancouver Thurs
day. The storm lasted about an hour.
For consideration of s85 per acre,
or approximately $4,000, w. J. stilson
Of Spokane has purchased 5S2 acres
of choice wheat land seven miles
southwest of Rosalia.
The Quinault and Quilayutte Indians
nave made demand that purchasers
If timber in the Quinault reservation,
which is to be sold in June, shall as
,ume risk or loss by fire.
Fruit growers of the Yakima valley
are investigating what may be sub
,titute for arsenate of lead spray. The
new chemical is rotenone, the active
principle of derris root.
To forestall annoyance from dusty
streets and highways when dry wealth
er sets in, the Chewelah chamber OF
commerce will ask the cooperation of
the state highway department.
At the last conference of Ridgefield
potato growers held at the high school
auditorium approximately rs produc-
ers voted to form a potato growers
cooperative marketing association.
T., Only officials properly authorized
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ords Of bank, whether defunct or
going concern, according to an opin-
ion from the attorney generals office.
State land and timber sold in the
various counties March brought
s21S,151. The selling price was $1346
more than the appraisal made by the
state, due to the demand for tide and
shore lands.
Cowlitz county's March school fund
apportionment totaled $17,7S7. The
portions that went to the larger dis
tricts were Longyiew, 5000; Kelso,
$509S; Castle Rock, $1424; Woodland,
$119O; Kalama, $1175, and Ryderwood,
$744.
An Eastern bean-canning company
has leased 10000 acres in the vicinity
Of Walla Walla for the raising of
beans on summer fallow land. The
price paid is SO an acre for the land
Farmers are to be paid So an acre
for the work
The women sheer at the men for