White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03

Rosalia Ainsworth, Is, was carried
away by. a heavy tidal current in the
Chehalis river while swimming near
Aberdeen, and drowned.
Problems Of unemployment and mi
grant families will be discussed at a
meeting of the Washington conference
Of social workers in Spokane, Sep
TENDER 13 to 10.
Many Camas men are being en-
ployed on the Jones creek dam and
the pipe line which will increase the
Camas water supply. Three carloads
of cast pipe have been received and
fourth carload is on the tracks at
Vancouver ready for delivery. The line
will be completed some time in Sep
TENDER.
The fourth mysterious fire of the
past two weeks removed another of
Montesano's early landmarks, when
the old Watkins house was destroyed.
The old building was erected more
than so years ago and was in the early
days one of the towns principal host
elries as well as being the stage head
quarters before the railway came.
Cashmere recently gave the white
man an idea Of what went on there q
century ago. The occasion was the
pow-wow of the once famous Waha-
natcha tribe, called together by old
Chief John Hallet, more than 100 years
old, to settle dispute over money
which the Indians allege is due them
for land from the federal government
and enormously paid to the Yakima
tribe.
More persons are riding the new
Mantle buses than rode the streetcars
before the advent of the motorized
equipment, Frank T. Post, president
Of the Spokane United railways, told
members Of the Spokane Advertising
club. He thinks the time not far dis
tant when the entire mass transporta-
ton system of the city will be fur
nished by buses, with the exception
of possibly one or two lines.
George Muller, student in the Smith
Hughes department of the Chehalis
public schools, who is also active in
All Holstein calf club work, has the
distinction of producing the biggest
crop Of wheat reported in the Chehalis
sector this season. From an acre and
a quarter on the farm of his father,
a yield of SO bushels was threshed.
Washington's $1O,O00,OOO highway.
the Olympic loop, was opened to thru
travel for the first time on August 26.
when Governor Hartley, Premier Toll
ME of British Columbia, chieftains Of
five Olympic Indian tribes and prom
inent northwest officials, took part in
dedicatory ceremony inaugurating
two-day celebration at Kalalock beach.
A toll Of approximately $4,000 in
Industrial property, machinery and
finished lumber products was taken
by fire which swept the Cavanaugh
Lumber company plant in Tacoma re-
Gently. The plant, destroyed except
for one section constructed OF fire re-
sisting thing, was fully covered by
insurance and will be rebuilt imme-
diately.
Harvesting Of the huckleberry crop
in the Mount st. Helens and Spirit
lake region is now in full swing, ac-
cording to Harold Samuelson. Blue
hucileberries have been ripening at
the lower levels for several weeks and
many pickers have been gathering
them, and the brown huckleberries at
the higher elevations are now ripen-
ing. The crop is fairly good, he states.
Checks covering final payment on
the 1880 crop of green prunes, deliv-
cred to the Washington Gamers CO.
operative, have been mailed to the
members, Manager Jones announced
This payment brings the total received
by growers up to $22.5S a ton. A first
payment of So ton was made on
delivery at the plant, and second
payment of SO was made soon after
wards.
A 99-year lease Of the Klickitat
springs near Mt. Adams by the Cas-
Ice company, organized recently in
Seattle, has been announced. The gas
from the springs will be utilized in
manufacturing the new form Of ice,
according to R. B. Newburn, president
of the company which has obtained
the lease. About 100000 will be spent
in developing the project, asserts
Newburn, who has been active in the
Kennewick gas area.
Merely having the county treasurer