White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-11-07

Private parties have interested
themselves in providing Winlock will
a swimming pool. Plans had beer
considered to obtain the building Of
one as a community enterprise.
The state permanent school fund has
been enriched $24,264 during the last
two years because some people either
did not care what became of theil
money or had forgotten where they
had put it. The money has new es
cheated to the state from nine defunct
banks.
With the population Of the state
penitentiary at Walla Walla constant
ly mounting, prison officials are hop
ing for an open winter, to permit con
struction Of the new trusty building
There are now HOO inmates in the
prison, which has accommodations fol
about 500.
Addressing a small group Of PEG
pie at Pullman, Chester Gray, legisla
tive representative of the American
Farm Bureau federation, said the bene
fits Of the present tariff on agricul.
tural products will not become evil
dent in year or two but must be
reckoned by decades. E
Bids on 100000 of winter highway
construction were called at Olympia
by Samuel ]. Humes, director Of high
ways. They will be opened November
Is. The call was part Of the state adj
ministration's project of lessening I'M
employment by providing highway
construction Jobs this winter.
A total Of 27,677 tourist automobiles
obtained permits to travel In Wash
ington during the first nine months
Of this year, Charles r. Maybury, di
rector Of licenses, said. California
with 1888 automobiles registered
sent more than half the visitors. Ore.
gon, with 2760 cars registered, was
second.
The main building for the fish hatch.
cry that the Northwestern Electric
company is building on the Lewis
river three miles below the Ariel dam
Is completed. It is liz feet long and
70 feet wide and Is being equipped
with 154 troughs. The hatchery will
have a capacity of more than TO-.
100000 salmon eggs.
The game commission is considering
making game preserve out of the
Orchard Heights district near Clarks.
ton. Residents complain that hunters
have peppered homes with shot in the
quest for birds. The heights are we'll
settled now, the complaint points out.
making it dangerous to life and prop.
erty to permit hunters in the region.
The First National bank of Auburn
closed it's doors after a five-day run
by depositors. Bad loans were report.
ed by owners of the bank stock to
have caused the directors to decide
to turn the bank over to the federal
bank authorities to conserve remain.
ing assets. 1t was expected the bank
would liquidate 80 cents on the dollar
A disease never before recorded in
Yakima county has been discovered
in the case of Melville G. Ford. He is
reported to be suffering from undulant
fever, which usually results from
drinking raw milk. 1t is thought,
though, that Ford contracted the fever
in handling cattle and swine in the
packing plant where he was employ.
ed.
Movement Of freight cars through
gateways of four railroads into and
from the northwest showed an in.
crease in September over the four
preceding months, figures compiled by
the department of public works show.
For September, the movement was
50,l17 cars, compared to 45,400 for
August, 40,919 for July, 40,87O for June
and 44,O79 for May.
More than 100000 bushels OF
wheat Of this seasons crop have been
handled by the North Pacific Grain
Growers, Inc, according to A. Eugene
Kelly, general manager. Loans have
been extended to the amount Of ST.,
100000. There has been a slowing
down in borrowings and sales, in.
dicating that farmers are disposed
to hold their grain.
White Salmon's large new beacon
for airplanes was lighted for the first
time last week. The beacon is stu
ated on the property of r. r. Peeler
and commands magnificent outlook
of the Columbia river gorge, both east
and west. This beacon, together with
the ones near Stevenson and the one