White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-18

| legislature may De reappOrtlOneu Dy
an initiative measure.
| Eugene j. Walters, SO, Carbonate
was killed by falling rock in the
diversion tunnel of the Northwestern
| Electric company on the Lewis river
A good grade of well located and
we'll improved farm land in Garfield
county brought $91 per acre under the
hammer and % acres OF pasture land
went at SIS an acre when the former
Weimer farm of $50 acres on the AL
powa ridge was sold.
Needing a protest from sand and
gravel companies, the Clark county
commissioners will discontinue the
practice of selling rock and gravel
from the county pits to private in.
diyiduale, unless the gravel is to be
used for road building.
Governor Hartley signed 116 re.
leases from the state penitentiary.
They. included 80 executive paroles,
Sc final discharges from penitentiary
parole, 13 final discharges from exc.
cutive parole and Is final discharges
from suspended sentences.
Officials connected with construc-
ton of the power dam at Rock Island
say that, barring an unexpected rise of
the Columbia, the main cofferdam
will be completed soon, after which
there will be layoff during high
water. About 400 men will be af.
fected.
Spring freshets have caused the
Quinault salmon catch to slump from
record size to practically nothing, w.
B. Sans, Taholah Indian superintend.
ent, said. The season opened April l
and closes June 80, with the catch
reaching it's peak from May is to
June Is.
Believe it or not, Peter Jacquet,
King county convict who will be elig.
ible for parole on May %, wants to
remain in prison until he dies. He Is
"a years old and says If he gets out
he will have no place to go except q
poor farm, and he prefers the peni.
Tertiary.
Electric lights in all Of the hangers
at the Vancouver city airport and four
street lights, which will assist aviators
in making night landings, will be pro
vided for when a line of new poles
has been set to the field. Lights in
the hangers will enable ship owners
to do repair work at night.
James Russell, 40, boom foreman,
was killed at Aberdeen when a car
load Of logs rolled prematurely at an
Aberdeen public log dump. Russell
was cutting stakes on log loads when
the last stake gave way and the tim
bers crashed off, crushing the work
man and hurting him into the river.
The Colfax Grain Growers, Inc,
local wheat cooperative, has the dis
tinction of being the first local in
the northwest to receive loan from
the North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc,
the region cooperative. In turn, the
Colfax local is the first cooperative
in the northwest to make loan to a
farnnr, h1Onnhnr
Mayor Smith of Hoquiam announced
that he will recommend to the city
council that immediate and proper
steps be taken to hold the architect
and contractor responsible in the mat.
ter of construction of the city hall.
Seepase of water through the roofs
and walls of the building has caused
damage to the building already.
The whipping post for men who re-
fuse to support their wives and chill
dren was recommended by Clarke
County Prosecutor McMullen in his
report to Governor Hartley. Such
cases are numerous and jail sentences
are useless in dealing with many men
who shirk their family obligations, as
they are willing to live at the expense
Of the county and their families be.
come public charges, he said.
To take care Of the additional at
tendance at Glover Valley school, due
to the large number of workers at the
! dam with their families, the school,
six miles above Woodland, has pur.
chased new 35-passenger bus. The
district is planning an addition to the
schoolhouse SO by 60 feet. The North.
western Electric company has made
this possible by advancing money for
the building, the bus and teacher
for two years.
w. B. Sans, superintendent of the
Taholah Indian agency, ruled that all
white fishing on reservation waters
must carry their special permit, OBJ
| tanned from the agency, on their per
| sons while fishing. He said that any
one caught fishing on the lake or any
where on the reservation without such
permit on his person will be ar
| rested and prosecuted. Quinault lake
| boatsmen have been warned not to
rent boats without seeing the permit
| of the renter first.
Pennies of Washington school chill
dren will finance the purchase of an
| S0-acre park adjoining the Blaine
| peace arch under a plan announced