White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-27

| W1nlOck poultry Q1Strlcr. IL ID e1-
pected that within the next few weeks
thousands of hens that will be ad-
Judged to have outlived their useful.
ness will go into the discard.
Owing to an unusual late summer
drouth, with all streams at their low.
est levels in years, Grays harbor gill;
METERS report the poorest salmon fish
ing start they have ever known. About
rs boats are fishing with nets inside
the harbor. The season closes Novem-
Der rs.
Trail crews Of the United States
forest service will break camps after
five months OF summer operations
in the Upper Quinault and Low Divide
districts. Road crews will continue
work on the proposed Quinault-
Dosewallips road until the snow falls,
however.
Small towns in the Asotin region
have trouble keeping postmasters.
Marion jerks Of Rogersburg and
Henry Hansen OF Hansen Ferry were
jailed for moonshining. While the
men were still serving time, postoffice
inspectors ordered the offices closed
| indefinitely.
The interstate commerce commits
sion's hearing on the certificate ap-
| plication of the Northern Pacific and
Union Pacific railroads to build 60
mile extension from Grays larbor into
the Olympics has been postponed un-
til October is, according to word re-
ceived at Aberdeen.
A few prune dryers on the bench
land above Fruit valley in Clark
county are operating, according to re-
port, and the harvest will be In full
blast soon. The droppage was no
heavier than usual, growers report,
and the fruit is extra fine because
it matured without rain.
The Longyiew ear-chewing case was
decided recently by Justice Lester
Huntington, who dismissed the charge
Of third degree assault filed against
Jack Alexander Of Longyiew. Alex
ander bit out piece Of W. r. Sims
ear during fight over trespassing by
Sims in Alexander's orchard.
The Pettigrew Orchard, Inc, at
Neppel, has sold its 132-acre orchard.
including 40 acres of Winesaps, 40
acres of Delicious and the balance
mostly set to Yellow Newtowns and
Jonathans to Ira Cleveland, a large
fruit operator of Yakima, for $685.
900. The tract is in Grant county.
Confessing that he threw the 20
high power rifle with which Helen
Moses shot her Indian mother at the
door of her cabin on the Colville
reservation recently into the Column
bia river, Clarence Hartley, compan-
ion of the girl, was arrested at North
port by Deputy Sheriff Oscar Olson of
| Colville.
Fire, which has threatened Steven
son for several days, and which has
destroyed timber, logging mills, dwell
ings and machinery near there valued
at more than a quarter Of million
dollars, burned itself out and virtually
was killed by its own backfire. A huge
line of smoldering logs and brush
circles Stevenson, but both are harm
less.
Eugene Gebhart, four-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Gebhart of
the upper Cloquallum river district,
north Of Elma, died from burns re-
| ceived when his clothing caught fire
from bonfire he had built near his
home. His brother and a playmate
tore the burning clothing from the
child but his body was almost char
| red.
Small potatoes and few in the hill
will be the result of the continued
dry weather, Clark county farmers
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fering for the lack OF moisture. Late
potatoes on high ground are matur-
ing early, and second growth will start
when rain falls. This will result in
rough. knobby tubers Of small market
value.
The body of Clara Simmons, ., was
found on the beach near Ilwaco, where
she died while playing in the sand.
She had dug hole beneath log.
The timber rolled and pinned her
beneath. Shortly later, while frantic
parents and others were searching for
her, the sloshing beach waters crept
higher and higher, finally covering
her and causing death.
White Salmon valley and the Under
wood district are rejoicing over q
bumper crop Of pears this harvest.
Inspector Rine gives conservative
estimate of 275 carloads Of D'Anjou
and Bose varieties. This does not in
clude the Bartletts. It is an off year
for apples. Unless there is an early
rainfall, the yield probably will be
between 40 and so per cent Of last
years tonnage.
After being lost for 16 days in the
) wooded hills back of Taholah, Wash,
Tommy Goodwin, 19-year.old Indian,
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