White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-02


disrupted the Spokane real estate mar.
ket and Is Increasing tax delinquency,
according to the president Of the Spo.
kane realty board.
Under a recent ruling of the state
supreme court, even when man
pleads guilty to charges of violating
the liquor laws justice Of the peace
must examine witness before con-
victing the defendant.
Jane Garrison, an aged Duwamish
Indian, has been enrolled on the CEN
sus list at Seattle. She is 106 years
old and sister OF Chief Seattle. Al
though bedridden, she is in possession
OF her mental faculties.
City Engineer Sharkey of Wenat-
chez has announced that city improve
ments to total 100000 will be started
this spring and give employment to
1876 men. The largest single job will
be laying water mains at cost Of
100000.
A landslide along the Quinault river
near the blue clay banks where fos-
sils have been discovered in the past
recently uncovered rich find of din
osaur fossils, according to word re-
ceived at Hoquiam from a Poison log
ging camp.
Census reports indicate that the pop
ulation of Sprague is 649 as compared
with SOL in the 1920 census. Sprague
is the first city in the Fifth district,
embracing the counties Of Stevens,
Spokane and Lincoln, to report COM
plete count.
The Columbia Box 6 Veneer COM
pany of Puyallup, which recently pur-
chased a large tract of timber in the
Wildwood district, rs miles southwest
of Chehalis, has established it's head
quarters at Curtis, and will start op-
erations soon.
A $4,000 increase in deposits in
Washington state banks and trust
companies for the year was reported
by H. G. Johnson, state supervisor Of
banking, in a comparative statement
of state banks as of March ~, 1880.
and March 81, 1929.
Delegates from Pomeroy, Clarks-
ston, Asotin, Uniontown, Cotton, Pull
man and Lewiston presented de-
mand at the statewide loop highway
meeting in Yakima for the routing of
the proposed road through these towns
by way of Colfax and Dodge.
Sheepherders in the national forests
of Chelan county will be required this
year to have county hunting and fish
ing licenses, according to ruling Of
the game commission. Foreign-born
herders will also be required to obtain
state permit to carry gun.
Checks have been received at Spo-
kane for the fourth dividend to depos-
itors of the Exchange National bank,
amounting to $32S,O0O. The fourth
dividend will make a total payment Of
95 per cent on the approximately S.
100000 Of deposits in the bank.
County Agent Yeager reports that
to date 70 yards in various parts of
Lewis county have been entered for
the 1880 Farm Yard Identification
contest. Bankers Of Lewis county are
again sponsoring this, as last year,
valuable cash prizes being offered.
With all their children present, Mr..
and Mrs. U. H. Joscelyn of Aberdeen
celebrated their 50th wedding ami
varsary. Mr.. Joscelyn is civil war
veteran, 80 years old, and is one Of
six remaining members of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Aberdeen.
Possibility Of oil exploration work
on a large scale in the Quinault Indian
reservation and adjacent territory was
brought to light at Aberdeen when it
was learned that large Canadian Pc
troleum firm has started negotiations
with the Indian tribe for extensive
leases.
Aberdeen is the largest city in the
sixth Washington census district. 1t
has preliminary population of 21,209,
G.. M. Hafenbrack, district supervisor,
announced, compared with 1851 in
1920. Vancouver, with 1876, is the
second largest city in the district, and
Hoquiam, with 12,475, is third.
Nearly $3,5O0,O00, the largest appor-
tionment Of the school year, was dis
tributed among counties recently as
for last. month. The smallest allot-
ment, $63S0, went to Skamania, and
the largest, $685. 22, to King county.
The apportionment totaled $3,420,808.
Often called by globe trotters the
"Swissiest village in America" White
Salmon, nestled on the hillside several
hundred feet above the Columbia riv-
er, has decided it urgently needs at
least a block or two of its main bust
ness thoroughfare leveled up; there
fore, plans and specifications were
presented to the city council, and an
Two Vancouver barracks soldiers
were knocked unconscious and burned
when struck by lightning few days
ago. They had been playing golf and
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