White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-15
Five hundred bags Of sugar beet

pany for distribution to the farmers
of northwest Washington.
The will of the late w. R. Rust,
Tacoma capitalist, provides that $780,
600 be set aside in trust fund, inter.
est from which will go to establishing
and maintaining a ward for children
at the Tacoma general hospital.
With the towns water supply cut
off by broken main, hastily re.
cruited bucket brigade at Vader bat
tied valiantly and saved the homes of
Mrs. Lucy Tiffany and Henry Com
tots which were afire from a blaze
which destroyed the residence of Jake
Branneman and all it's contents.
A channel had to be blasted with
giant powder last week to get the fer.
ryboat at Maryhill, in the Columbia
river, back to it's moorings. The craft
drifted away in floating ice while the
crew was getting truck started up
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last trip made before the storm tie-up.
Girls led the field in high scores in
the state eighth-grade examinations.
the Clark county school superintend-
ent announces. Lillian Mccoy was
high-point student, with ST. out of a
possible 900. Lavell Cunningham OF
Barberton scored 842 and Hilda Lind
holm of Pine Grove school scored 1886.
County Treasurer Fender of Clark
county has begun collecting current
taxes, and 142 receipts, totaling
$65S4.56, were issued. Personal prop.
erty tax must be paid before March
Is or become delinquent. Real estate
taxes do not become delinquent until
June /, and can be paid in two in.
stallments if the first payment is made
by that date.
The annual report of the port OF
Kelso, submitted recently by Frank
Gowdy, port manager, shows a total
of 245,603.54 tons of freight handled
over the port docks during 1928. Other
figures revealed by the report are that
312 ocean-going vessels stopped dur
ing the year to load or discharge, OF
which 236 were coastwise, GO inter-
coastal and 10 foreign.
The Palouse city council has voted
to purchase new pump, pumping
1000 gallons minute. 1t will cost
$1675. The council believes that all
the water Palouse will require for
lawn, house and mill purposes will be
provided, and has notified the North.
ern Pacific railway that the town will
be able to supply the engines there
This transaction will also make the
swimming pool possible.
"I'm a bachelor" said clause in
the will of Ole Halvorsen, filed re.
Gently for probate in the Yakima su.
perior court. "But if any person
should claim to be my child, give,
devise and bequeath to him or her or
them, one dollar and no more" With
this exception, Halvorsen's estate, es-
timated to be worth $4,000, is given
to his brother and two sisters in
Skien, Norway, in equal shares.
A we'll known as MCGOWAN No. ]
we'll is being drilled by the Union Oil
company of California, near Raymond.
This company holds leases on large
area within two miles of Raymond,
and has built 122-foot steel derrick.
The oil operations in that locality are
the elimination of the work of Charles
S. B. Henry, local geologist. 1t is
hoped that oil will be found in pay
ing quantities in Pacific county.
Fire last week destroyed the James
town Indian school at Jamestown, 16
miles east of Port Angeles. The loss
was about $4,000 in physical assets,
but all Indian records since the
school was established, school library
and the private library of Supt. A. N.
Taylor, were destroyed. In the school
treasures were the first "globe" and
the first school blackboard to come
to this county The school is over
40 years old.
Early lambing of range flocks, win
tered along the Columbia river in
eastern Klickitat county, is reported
in progress. Sheds have been erected
on the sage brush range of the Horse
Heaven hills during late years to pro-
tect the young lambs from inclement
weather. This year weather condi-
lions are unusually severe in the To-
cality, but flock masters are hiring
extra help and taking other precau-
lions to protect the lambs.
One of the largest shipments of
doors ever moved from the Pacific
northwest was lifted at the port ter.
minal at Aberdeen the first of this
week by the British steamer Queens.
wood, bound for the United Kingdom.
The doors are the product of the Dur
able Door company of Aberdeen, and
will be distributed in London. The
shipment will consist of some $4,000
doors, all produced from clear timber
grown in the Grays IIarbor district.
Vancouver police. arrested 667 per-
sons in 1928. Fines and costs in po
lice court totaled S417O.65: meals for