White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-03
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Virginia Ellen Kronfuss, month-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kron-
fuss of Carlisle, was found suffocated
under bed clothes in her tiny crib.
A white Wyandotte cockerel owned
by r. E. Castor of Ellensburg was de-
clared grand champion at the Wash
ington Poultry associations annual
show
In view Of the approaching federal
census the city council Of Bellingham
has been askedyto annex several outly-
ing districts to swell the population
of the city.
One man was killed and two wounded
and the slayer is in jail at Montesano
as the result of a shooting affray at
Brady dance hall, four miles north Of
Montesano.
approximately 10000 head Of sheep
and 5000 cattle, representing a value
of 100000, are now in Asotin coun-
ty for winter feeding, according to j..
e. Heritage, county treasurer.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company announced another reduc-
ton in the lighting and commercial
electric rate for Kelso and vicinity,
which goes into effect March l..
Petitions protesting against the graz
ing of sheep in the Wenatchee nation
al forest are being circulated from
Rock Island to Leavenworth for pres
entation to the secretary of agricul-
ture.
During the current year Lewis coun-
ty expended s364,oOO for roads and
bridges. Major projects completed
were the bridge on the Onalaska road,
and the Cowlitz river bridge north Of
Mossyrock.
Setting high record in Yakima
postal service, residents have mailed
100000 more letters to date in Decem-
Der than were sent out in 1928. The
total does not include suburban mail
Cancelled at substations.
Directors of the .Walla Walla cham
Der of commerce voted 500 toward
an $500 fund being raised by the FL
gin community club to buy Toll Gate
from it's present owners in order to
make it free public road.
Petitions signed by $50 residents OF
Ellensburg have been presented to the
city council asking the council to take
| the lead in a movement to obtain from
the state board of public works a re-
| duction in telephone rates.
Installation Of gravel crushing
plant to cost $15O,0oO has been begun
at Odds station on the Great Northern
railroad six miles north of Wenatchee
The rock will supply ballast for the
railway track Of the Great Northern
M. F. Lindsy of Olympia has ship
ped a big black bear named Adolpl
as a Christmas present to G. e. Queen
of Southwest City, Mo. The bears
rations en- route will consist of sack
of apples and several plugs Of chew
ing tobacco.
Creation of the office Of the cit!
purchaser to be filled by the commits
sioner Of finance and accounting, ant
transfer of the office of plumbing in
spector to the health department, arr
provided for by commission action re
Gently in Yakima.
o. 3. Thompson, former cashier ant
director Of the Bank Of Stanwood ant
the Bank of Hamilton and forme
mayor Of Stanwood, pleaded guilty t.
charges of classifying bank records AM
was sentenced to serve from i
months to three years in Walla Wall
state penitentiary.
Columbia river smelt were on tn
market in Kelso for the first time thi
year. They were gillnetted in tn
Columbia river near Clifton. TIL
winter run of the fish, which genera
~ arrives in the Cowlitz river In d.
cember or early January, is expecte
at any time by fishermen.