White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-26
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Growers in the Mabton district have
shipped 1870 carloads of potatoes this
season. Twelve carloads OF canta-
loupes have been shipped also.
A shipment of between 5000 and
1000 cases of string beans to England
was made few days ago by the Allen
Packing corporation of Longview.
Spinach harvest will start in the
Walla Walla district very soon. 1t Is
estimated that between 140 and l50
carloads will roll before Christmas.
Justice Walter M. French, member
of the state supreme court since 1925,
died at st. Peters hospital in Olym-
pia. He was stricken with heart at
tack.
Gus Tasiopoulos, Vancouver restaur-
ant proprietor, is $4,000 richer as the
result of future book ticket on the
Belmont futurity for which he paid 81
last spring.
Preliminary plans for Thurston
county's highway program for 1881
call for an expenditure of 100000, &C
cording to the budget request OF the
county engineer.
Sixty-six blue fox pups will be sent
from the Chehalis valley to Seattle
to form part of shipment OF 5O0
foxes to Norway and Sweden for
breeding purposes.
Resignation Of A. E. Lawson, secre-
tary of the Washington state fair Tor
six years, was announced. 1t took
effect with the closing of the 34th
state fair recently.
During the past week $4,000 rain
bow trout obtained from the Cham
bers creek hatchery near Tacoma
have been planted in streams OF Cow
litz county by Game Warden Moore.
Governor Hartley has invited the
governors of Oregon, Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming to attend the ninth an
nual convention of the Columbia Basin
Irrigation league at Yakima, Septem-
Der 81.
Control of the Spokane Union stock
yards has been sold by the receiver
Mott n
new corporation to be known as the
Old Union Stockyards company, for
$S7,500.
With heavy shipments of Delicious
apples continuing, packing houses in
the Kennewick district are for the
most part running double shift. Prices
are quoted fair. The quality is report
ed very good.
Seth Catlin, early pioneer in the
Longview locality, who in 1849 settled
on donation land claim that is now
part of Longview, will be honored by
memorial to be erected in the Long
view civic center.
North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc.
regional cooperative of the fedora
farm relief board, has passed the 81,
100000 mark in loans to farmers O
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Mon
tana, it's officers said.
Walla Walla's new traffic light sys
tenn is being installed and will be il
use very soon. Four lights are being
installed as an experiment and if the.
work successfully more will be addet
in the downtown district.
Walla Walla averages over tw,
automobile accidents a day, according
to the figures of Chief of Police Vogel
Since December 4, 1929, there have
been 656 accidents, or an average o
73 a month for nine months.
Six masked and armed men entered
the Citizens National bank at Everett
lined about SO patrons and employee
against the walls, and systematicall
robbed the cages and vaults of $1,000
in currency and securities. While tw
men guarded the banks entrance, tn
other four, armed with sub-machin
guns, held patrons and employees a
hav