White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16


Angle Lake, north of Seattle, when
Dewey Erlwein succeeded in killing
the bird after terrific fight. Erlwein
surprised it in the act of making off
with a batch Of small chicks, and
when he shouted the eagle dropped
the chicks and turned on him.
The game fishing season in Clark
county opened April Is, and the audi
tors office reports heavy sale OF
state fishing licenses, with the sale OF
county licenses about normal. State
| licenses permit the bearer to fish any
where in Washington, but county IL
censes are good only in Clark county
James Allen Hungate, one of the
five living members Of the state con-
stitutional convention Of 1889 and a.
veteran democrat, has at last signed
the constitution, AZ years after its
adoption. While attending the con-
yention he was called home before
the instrument was ready for sigma
ture.
County Game Warden Moore of
Cowlitz county has announced that
bird dogs and other dogs trained for
hunting of birds must be kept out of
the woods and fields during the en-
suing four months under the state law
which forbids the running Of bird dogs
during the months of April, May, June
and July while birds are nesting.
Mrs. Frank Cooper of Everett was
elected state regent of the Daughters
of the American Revolution at the
final sessions of their convention in
Spokane. She defeated Mrs. H. D.
Hurley of Seattle and Mrs. Mott Saw
yer of Port Angeles. Mrs. G. x. Lar
rabee, Bellingham, nominated from
the floor, was named first vice regent.
Spring rains mean dollars to per-
sons living between Hoquiam and
Lake Quinault, for fine ferns will ap-
pear in profusion soon. These ferns
are picked by men, women and chill
dren and stacked into bundles for
shipping to florists or for sale to rep
resentatives of eastern concerns. Sew
eral thousand dollars is paid for the
forest plant.
An argument over who should take
sick woman to a doctor ended in
tragedy at Carlton. Hayden Garfield
insisted that it was his place to take
his wife to Wenatchee for medical
treatment, but Mrs. R. H. Miller, his
mother-in-law, and another son-in-law,
argued that they should do it. The
argument ended when Mrs. Miller shot
and killed Garfield.
Representative Johnson has In
formed Indian agency officials at Ho-
GUAM that $4,000 has been added to
the Quinault reservation road fund
and that this amount will care for the
proposed new entrance into Taholah,
Indian village at the mouth of the
Quinault river. High tides and swol-
len rivers make the present entrance
impossible certain times of the year.
The present sunshine and wind rap
idly will dry up roads in the back
country SO that the hauling of logs can
boo,;,, qroY,, +bo Mo,,p+ dave 0robord
company properties, IL miles north of
White Salmon. Logs will be floated
to the Columbia river, and sent to
Portland in RATS, each containing ap-
proximately 100000 feet. To fulfill
contracts, work will continue all dur.
ing the summer.
Although such voters as took the
trouble to cast their ballots at Win
locks special election were over
in favor Of the proposed
$4,000 bond issue to provide funds to
build a new septic-tank plant there,
the total number who voted was in
sufficient for the proposal to carry.
There were Sc votes in favor of the
1O-year per cent bonds and only IA
against. It would have required a
total vote of slightly upwards of $50.
OF unusual interest to Lewis and
other southwest Washington counties
is the announcement from Olympia
that State Highway Director Samuel
]. Humes has assured District Engi-
neer w. H. Lynch of the United States
Bureau Of Public Roads that the state
will allot $137,4oO toward extension of
the Randle-Yakima highway east of
Packwood, toward White Pass; also
that $4,000 will be available for use
on the east side of the Cascades, head
ing toward White Pass.
Butter manufacturers from Toledo,
OakvilIe, Longview, Winlock, Contra