White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-05

rlgdtlOn company near heuHeWlck.
A total of 443,OOO pairs OF 1880 auto
mobile license plates have been dis
tributed in the state up to date. A
shipment of $4,000 pairs Of 1881
plates have been received at Olympia
from the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla, where they are manufactured.
Though 800 cars of Bartlett pears
rolled out of the Yakima valley, sales
have been too few for satisfactory
disposal of the crop, according to re-
port of the Yakima Valley Traffic and
Credit association. Trading has been
light in proportion to tonnage avail.
able.
A total of 293 cars Of prunes have
been shipped out of the Walla Walla-
Freewater prune district so far this
year. This compares with 213 cars at
this time last year. The prunes have
been in good condition. There has
been little trouble over green prune
shipments.
The cold pack method of canning
chicken was demonstrated to mem.
bers of the Kelso Kiwanis club at their
meeting recently by Myrtle Dodge and
Bernardine Mccoy, members of the
Silver Lake All Canning club, who
required only Is minutes to complete
the canning.
Fired upon by an unidentified as
sailant, G. L. Christensen, 60, and
John Higerbar, about 60, who Kitsap
county officers said were moonshin.
ers, were instantly killed near Fouls
BIO, about 18 miles north of Bremerton.
Officers asserted the Staying due to
a bootleggers' vendetta.
Estimated expenditures of the var
fous departments of the Benton coun-
ty government for 1881 aggregate
s114,934, or s42S7 below the 1880
figures, according to budgets filed
with the county clerk. For roads
$159,360 is asked, as compared with
$144,544 allowed in the 1880 budget.
Apple growers Of Wenatchee are be-
ing urged by the secretary of the as.
ISOLATION not to sell their apples to
cash buyers offering low prices. The
warning follows reports that Winter
Bananas were being sold for delivery
Immediately at $1.25 per box. 1t is
thought that later there will be no
difficulty in obtaining s1.50.
What to do with large black bear
that is threatening flocks and orch
ards in the northeastern part of Clark
county is puzzling residents of that
district. The season for killing bear
does not open for more than a month
and in the meantime bruin is raiding
orchards, breaking down trees and
menacing calves and sheep.
Reno Odlin, vice president of the
Metropolitan National bank Of Seattle,
was elected state commander of the
American Legion, succeeding William
D. Welch of Port Angeles. Belling-
ham was chosen as the site for next
years convention, the northern city
winning over Yakima and Walla Walla,
two others who bid for the event.
Steady growth of business at the
plant of the Battle Ground Dairymen's
association made necessary an addi-
tion Is by 81 feet, which is being used
for storage of milk and cream destin.
ed for the Portland market. Bust
ness is on the upgrade, Henry Rick,
secretary and manager of the asso-
citation, said, and the outlook for high,
er prices for cheese is good.
The career of Peter Wheeler, sheriff
of Chelan county, reached dramatic
climax recently when two bench war
rants issued by Federal Judge j. Stan
ley Webster, Spokane, we're served on
him at Wenatchee, one charging con-
spiracy to violate the prohibition laws
and another intimidating witnesses
and obstructing justice. Bail, $4,000
in the first case and $1,000 in the sec.
ond, was furnished by the sheriff.
Harvesting Of beans started in High
land mountain back of Dayton and
operations will be under way through
out the Eickhoff farm products hold
1ngs around Walla Walla, Dayton and
Athena soon. About so machines will
be in operation. Prospects are for q
bigger yield than ever this year, de-
spite some inroads made by the curly
leaf hopper, which migrated there
from the desert around Hermiston.
The ith-Hughes team Of the Buck
ley high school took first place in the
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