White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-11-28
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Uur ked0erS.
Fire caused by defective hue or
light wires destroyed the Shepherds
Springs hotel with loss to the build
ing and furnishings set at $4,000.
Two women leaped 20 feet to safety
from the burning Woods hotel at
Silver Lake, near Everett. Mrs. Nora
Wood, owner, placed the loss at $10.-
900.
Spokane county will soon receive 200
pairs Of Hungarian pheasants for
propagation. The birds are from
Czechoslovakia. They will cost $10.75
a pair.
Carl R. Sloan, 80, of Thornton was
killed near Colfax when an auto truck
slipped from a jack and crushed him
against fence post as he was putting
on tire chain.
Warren w. Holman, Judge of the
state supreme court, was named ch1ef
Justice, effective the second Monday
in January, in court order filed at
Olympia recently.
An appeal for 100000 seed wheat
loan from the state or federal govern
ment is contemplated by the grow.
ers of the Big Bend district, who met
at Odessa recently.
Gordon West, president Of the Ska
mokawa State bank and owner of an
extensive dairy ranch, received a
broken arm recently when butted into
the barn gutter by a calf.
Indian service engineers have COM
pleted the survey work for the pro-
posed Klickitat irrigation project,
which will bring about $4,000 acres
of the Yakima reservation under
water.
Sheep growers of the region Of VIII
bur, Creston and Almira have voted to
assess themselves 8 cents per sheep
to keep Glen Correl as trapper until
January /. Under the levy are 5000
sheep.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
purchased 33 tracts Of land at cost
Of $150,000 along it's trackage in Yaki-
ma. It will be used for the develop
ment of industrial and warehouse
property.
A standard channel width Of so feet
and depth of four feet have been
provided in the Cowlitz river since
dredging was completed between the
mouth of the river and Ostrander,
nine miles. ia assssssstl s-ss,e ,-!r,,
>, Protests against the administration
of the county veterans relief fund are
to be heard by the Thurston county
commissioners at their next meeting.
It is charged that veterans in actual
want are denied aid. e.syA>
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T. The department of public works has
authorized the Yakima Motor Coach
company to institute an intrastate
service between Yakima and White
Salmon over the Status Pass road. 1t
will form link in the road between
Yakima and Portland.
City employees of Walla Walla have
completed laying 1900 feet of new 20.
inch steel pipe along the supply line
from the intake to the reservoir. A
total of 10000 feet Of wooden pipe
is being replaced, and the work will
not be finished before next summer.
M. G. Smith, a steel worker, fell
four stories into a concrete basement
recently at Spokane and then laughed
as he told friends about it. "I'm a
fool for luck, guess" Smith said as
he discussed a few bruises and cuts.
ut just wasn't my time to kick in"
The new $4,000 bridge across the
HoQuiam river to serve the 'pan han
die" district was opened recently by
the county engineer. Construction on
the span has been under way for
months. Its completion gave the pan
handle country its first road outlet,
all traffic heretofore being by way Of
boats,