White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-12-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
About SIX inches of snow fell in the
Klickitat valley wheat belt and farm
ers are thankful for the protection 1t
will afford wheat.
Most Of the logging camps in the
Centralia district closed down Satur-
day night for the Christmas holidays
and will reopen January 6.
Demonstrations in pruning are be-
ing conducted in Chelan county by the
Washington State college extension
service and the county agent.
The Cherryland orchard near Pros
ser had the biggest crop in its history
this year. A total of 62,57S boxes,
mostly apples, was the yield.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
McDowel's cafe in Toledo. The loss
is estimated at $500, with the build
ing and contents partially covered by
Insurance.
The first loan at Spokane under the
new farm marketing act has been
made to the Mountain States Honey
Producers association with headquar-
ters at Boise, Idaho.
Mis- Nina Severson, %, a school
teacher at Auburn, was injured fatally
In a head-on collision between two
automobiles on the Seattle-Tacoma
highway near Seattle.
A committee has been appointed by
the White Salmon commercial club to
further Investigate the matter of the
proposed consolidation Of the towns
Of Bingen and White Salmon.
Treasurer Pender, during his three
years in office, has sold 536 parcels
Of Clark county real estate for delin-
quent taxes, realizing $63,512.50.
Taxes on the property totaled $44.-
447.57.
Ben F. Hill became mayor Of Walla
Walla at ceremony which consisted
only of signing his name to the dotted
line under his oath of office. 1t was
the third time he had done this in the
last IL years.
The Olympia cannery has closed it's
doors for the winter. Company Off
Gals say the berry and fruit packing
season has been excellent and several
hundred employees have been busy
since the season opened last spring.
In deciding a King county traffic
case the state supreme court held that
because a pedestrian has the right of
way he is not entitled to violate the
laws of the state and of courtesy. The
right Of way is relative, not absolute.
Olympic elk are deserving the high
hills. for the lowlands as the noun
tains of the peninsula gradually are
covered with snow. Two herds were
seen recently from the highway, both
in the logged lands of the Humptulips
valley.
The Certified Seed Potato company
Of Portland has leased between 200
and ESQ acres of land from the Long
view company, and plans to use it
for raising seed potatoes. The land is
located west of the Robert A. Long
high school.
Spokane has the distinction Of be-
ing the largest butter manufacturing
center in the state. OF the annual
state production of 30,000,000 pounds
Spokane produces 100000, or rs per
cent. Seattle is second and Tacoma
third in the output.
Skamania county game officials
have been called by the state highway
department to prevent a colony of
beaver from stopping UP culvert un-
der the Evergreen highway near Ska
mania. The animals are using the
highway embankment as dam in the
formation of secondary pond. Road
workers said they had repeatedly re-
moved mud and sticks placed in the
drain, but the beaver Immediately re-
place the obstacles and plug up the
drain.