White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Thirty-seven and one-half per cent
of the brakes examined in a test con-
Quoted at Walla Walla by the city for
two days were found to be defective,
authorities report.
Construction of a 100000 irrigation
project in Chelan county is proposed
in an application for water filed with
the division of hydraulics by the How.
ard Flat irrigation district of Chelan.
September has been definitely set
as the date for the abandonment of
the North Shore line of the Union
Pacific railway. according to word re-
ceived from the Omaha headquarters
of the company.
Bedridden for eight years, Miss
Lizzie Gray Of Yakima celebrated her
85th birthday with an ambulance trip
several hours through the streets OF
the city. She was thrilled with the
changes she saw.
The Union Pacific system has can
celled the rail motor coach schedule
between Bales Junction, Waitsburg,
Huntsville and Dayton. The route
will be served with motor coach
truck by highway.
A cloudburst struck the district be-
tween Wenatchee and Chelan a few
days ago. One hundred and ten feet
of concrete irrigation flume washed
away between Entiat and Ardnvoir.
Crops were not badly damaged.
K. T. Henderson of Longview sub
mitted low bid to the Lewis county
commissioners for the proposed old
folks home, to be built five miles
southeast of Chehalis. His offer was
$26,495 on the general contract.
Suit to enjoin Land Commissioner
Savidge from canceling oil and gas
leases on state land in Jefferson coun-
ty has been filed in the superior court
of Thurston county by the Peninsular
Development company Of Aberdeen.
With practically all Of the $780,
OO0-bushel wheat crop Of Walla Walla
in storage, there still is few fields
to be cut around the Dayton district.
Buying is slow and there seems to
be no wheat offered by the farmers.
Consolidation of the controlling in
terests in Olympia of the two leading
hotels, the Olympian and the New
| Governor, and the formation of new
operating company, is announced by
Peter Schmidt, president of the new
company.
Corn from the Washington state
prison garden at Walla Walla is being
canned, giving work to go prison
ers. The corn will be used by state
institutions. In two years of opera
tion the cannery has yielded a profit
| to the state.
The mangled body Of j. G. OtDell,
"55, rancher on the Palouse highway,
| was found on his farm Is miles south
| of Spokane. No one witnessed the
accident, but it is certain he was the
victim of an Infatuated bull he attempt
ed to corral
New regulations promulgated by
Clarence Long, superintendent Of the
Washington state prison at Walla
Walla, prohibit visits to the institu-
tion by those under Is. Admission Of
children inside the walls has always
been source of concern.
Clyde S. Murray, Vancouver, pilot
of the airplane which struck and kill
ed Mrs. Marian Williams at Long
Beach recently was charged with man
slaughter in an information filed in
district court at South Bend by Her
man Murray, district attorney.
Indisposition of Walter Dawishiba
of Spokane to feed hobo at 4:30 in
the morning cost him the roof and
attic of his house. The tramp had
touched match to tar paper which
closed in the back porch where the
Dawishiba children were sleeping.
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