White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hare
white, soft white and western white
CSC: hard winter, northern spring and
western red, CSC.
Hay-Buying price. t. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy s15@
1850; eastern Oregon timothy, SIT;
clover, $11; oat hay. s12; oats and
vetch, s12.
Butterfat-1S@19c
Eggs-Ranch, 13@15c.
Cattle Steers, good, $7.50@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, S7.25@8.25.
Lambs Good to choice, $8.50@9.25.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white.
bluestem, CSC; western red, northern
spring, hard winner, CSC.
Eggs Ranch, 12@22c.
Butterfat-24c.
Cattle Choice steers, $7.5O@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S.25@S.35.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
| Cattle-Steers, good, $7.25@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, $825@8.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, SCOT.
After being closed two months to
heavy freight trucks, Snoqualmie pass
was opened to such traffic last week.
Truman Vernon, 13, was killed by
electricity while playing in a tree at
Lakeshore, about two miles west of
Vancouver.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
has started another side at it's logging
operations in the Toutle river district,
northeast Of Kelso.
Thoroul H. Miller, 80, brakeman on
a Schafer Bros. logging train, was in
stantly killed when he was run over
by his train at Schafer's National
camp near Oakville.
Births in Clark county in March ex
ceeded deaths more than two to one.
The totals were II births and "a
deaths, according to the report of the
county health officer.
Discovery of IL cases Of red measles
in Yakima spurred health officers to
take precautions to avert an epidemic.
In 1927 1000 homes in the county were
quarantined for red measles.
Resolutions favoring the building Of
a bridge to Government island and
indorsing the proposed "Beaver cen
tennial fair" were adopted at a COM
munity meeting at Fishers recently.
In the past Is years apple exporta-
tons from the Yakima valley have
grown from few boxes, sent to Aus
tralia, to more than 100000 boxes.
sent to all parts Of the world last
season.
Sharp-smelling sleuths cannot fol-
low their noses and arrest violators
Of the prohibition law unless they
have warrant with them, under
ruling of Federal Judge Webster of
Spokane.
Tacoma is making active prepare
tions for the coming of hundreds of
Knights Templar to the city on May
conclaye of the Grand Commandery
of the state.
Five thousand acres of fertile land
will be opened up for agricultural pur
poses by the building of the bridge
across the Okanogan river near it's
mouth, according to County Commits
sioner Gamble of Brewster.
A fight Of 13 hours by members of
the inhalator squad of the Yakima fire
department for the life of 8-months-
cid Clyde Wilbur Cans was won. The
huby was kept alive by artificial
breathing for nearly IL hours.
The state supreme court has upheld
the emergency clause of the butter
substitutes law imposing a tax of Is
cents per pound on substitutes made
of vegetable or animal oils. The law
will become effective at once.
Cities Of the state have collected
their shares of the state highway fund
to the total amount Of $91, 4S0, or $500
mile, for state highways within their
limits. Spokane received s9"05, Seat
tie $10,6SO, and Tacoma $T210.
Plans for a landing place for am.