White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07

Cattle-Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, SITS.
Lambs-Medium to good, $8.5O@9.
Hoquiam's new $4,000 submarine wa.
ter main, beneath the Hoquiam river
has been completed.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Bar
bee Drydock & Shipbuilding corpora
ton and two fishing boats at Seattle
with an estimated loss of $125,OOO.
Considerable quantities Of Washing
ton eggs are reported rolling eastward
for storage purposes, and this has
proved stabilizing influence upon the
local markets.
w. j. Nelson, Chehalis, was awarded
q contract for grading and surfacing
Cowlitz county highway No. 2, near
Castle Rock, by the county commits
sioners at Kelso.
Exceeding the quota set, by $7O3,
Pullmans third annual community
chest campaign has proved exception
ally successful. The amount to be
raised had been set at $500.
A gift of $4,000 from the Carnegie
corporation of New York to the Col
lege Of Puget Sound for the purchase
of new library books is announced by
DR.. Edward H. Todd, president Of the
college.
After emptying the gasoline tank
of motorboat at Dumping lake to re-
pair leak, Harold Webb, Yakima, lit
a match to look inside. The explosion
wrecked the tank, fired the boat and
injured Webb.
Walter M. Kern, city superintendent
of Walla Walla schools, who is under
a three-year contract, will voluntarily
take a 5 per cent cut in his salary.
The school board has approved 5
per cent cut for all teachers.
Experiments with shavings instead
of the usual oils for orchard heating
have been conducted by Martin Miller
on his ranch near Omak. He is con-
WINGED that this method surpasses the
old. The cost was about 81 per acre.
Ridgefield high school won first
place in the annual Clark-Skamania
county inter-scholastic commercial
typist contest held at Mill Plain. Ridge
field, Battle Ground, Stevenson, Mill
Plain, Camas and Washougal schools
competed.
Thomas D. Stimson, Seattle pilot
was killed in the crash of his plane on
the Colville Indian reservation neal
Nespelum. The ship dove to earth IN
miles north of Stevenson's ferry. Ron
aid Mcneil Nespelum, said the pilot
age.
Approximately 10 miles of streetca1
line, including the whole or parts O.
five different routes, will be abandon
ed or supplanted with bus service I'm
der a plan submitted to the city com
missioners of Spokane by officials O
the Washington Water Power com
pany.
Steel pipe ordered by the city to re
place that near Wickersham bridg,
which was washed out by the floot
waters is due soon, and a crew will
Immediately start installation. A pow
er shovel is digging the trench unde
the old channel of Mill creek, nov
dry since the creek made a detour
When. special county Equipment is re
ceived, work of diverting the creel
back into it's former course will b.
started.
Heavy Withdrawals occasioned b.
the attempt Of the vice president an
cashier of the Central bank of Topper
fish to commit suicide have made
necessary to place the bank in tn
hands of the state supervisor of bank
ing.
Mrs. Hazel Kenney has been acquit
ted in Spokane police court of tn
charge Of having liquor for sale. Wit
ness after witness testified that he
beverage was unfit to drink, being
mixture of whiskey, water and char
coal.