White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


With flow of 100000 cubic feet the
ninth well in the Benton county ma
tural gas field has been brought IN.
The flow was struck at a depth OF
700 feet.
Officers of the First National bank
of Yakima announced plans for I'M
mediate construction of new build
ing on the site of the Yakima hard
ware store.
The municipality Of Centralia owns
and controls properties that in value
aggregate $2,769,577 with light and
water utilities representing an outlay
of s1,1S7,s55.
The Clark county Bartlett pear crop
"a 80 per cent of normal, according to
A. w. Moody, Zelda orchardist. This
is the highest percentage Of any fruit
crop in the county.
The Reardan and Gravelles school
have voted to consolidate. Not single
vote was cast against consolidation.
The value of the Reardan consolidated
district is $2,369,000.
For the first time in the history of
King county the Democrats of Seattle
have filed with the county auditor
complete list of election judges for
the city's 406 precincts.
Whatcom county's hunger-striking
prisoners have called the strike OFF
after fast of 48 hours. The strike
was protest against the food served
by federal prisoner acting as cook.
The United States Steel Products
company of Seattle has been awarded
the contract to construct the steel
superstructure of the Lake Union
bridge. The contract price is S1,247-
8S8.
Mount Vernon merchants have stop
ped selling butter substitutes in their
stores. The movement, started by the
chamber of commerce, is expected to
be taken up by other sections Of Skagit
county.
Poison Logging company construc-
ton camps and 10 and logging camps
No. 2 and IA resumed operations Mon
day, it was announced by Robert Pol
son, general manager of operations at
Hoquiam.
Three inmates of the state peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla will receive
between them $50 for submitting the
best idea on tax reform in contest
conducted by the state advisory tax
commission.
With the drill now working more
than three-quarters Of mile below
the earth's surface, strong flow OF
natural gas was reported as issuing
from the Union Oil company's test
we'll at MCGOWAN.
Six carloads of machinery, the last
shipment for the Longview Fibre
company's new boxboard plant at
Longview, has been unloaded. About
80 persons will be employed in the
factory, half of them women.
Blood poisoning from an apparently
trifling scratch on one knee about a
week ago caused the death of Betty,
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Young Of Growmore, in the
Wide Hollow district near Yakima.
AS Clyde Terrier, Toledo truck driv-
er, drove past the Leo Seifert place
near Cowlitz prairie, Mrs. Bell rush
ed out frantically calling for help. Her
11-year-old son had fallen in a well.
With Terriers help the boy was res.
cued.
Cold, wet weather at pollenization
time, together with severe winter tenn
perature, has materially lowered the
apple crop in the Spokane district. A
production of Ats cars for Spokane
county, 24O cars for Stevens and Ferry
counties and 80 for Lincoln county is
now the estimate. This is 246 cars
less than the district produced last
year.
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