White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, SIC; soft white, western white.
66c: hard winter, northern spring,
western red, 63c.
Hay-Buying price. I. 0. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, s14@15; valley timothy $3.50
1850; eastern Oregon timothy. SIT;
clover, Sill; oat hay. $12; oats and
vetch, $12.
Butterfat-21@23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@15c.
Cattle-steers, good, $7.75@S.10.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.50@8.50.
Lambs-Good to choice, 5000.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, &c; western red, northern
spring, hard winter, Csc.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@20c.
Butterfat-27c.
Cattle-Ch Choice steers, $7.50@8.
Hogs Good to choice, $8.60@S.70.
Lambs-C Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25@S.35.
Lambs-Medium to good, 36@7.
Opening Of dirt and gravel roads in
Clark county to heavy trucks still
awaits dry weather.
The annual spring music festival
given by the Stevenson grade school
was held April 2 at the Wigwam the
alter.
Lewis county commissioners have
ordered the Salzer Valley-Little Han
afford market highway established,
east Of Centralia
An Easter egg hunt for children be-
tween to 10 years of age was spon'
sored Easter afternoon by Montesano
Post No. 81, American Legion.
Governor Hartley has approved the
bill appropriating $4,000 for state
park at the peace arch near Blaine as
tribute to the late Samuel Hill.
w. Cater of Merlin, returning from
Spokane to Wilson creek, picked up
hitch-hiker who relieved Cater of all
the money he had with him, $50.
The Wenatchee Apple Blossom fes-
tival will be held Friday and Satur-
day, April "a and Is. The festival
committee announced the dates last
week.
For the first time since the influ-
enza epidemic Of 1918 the Cathlamet
schools were closed Thursday because
of the prevalence of mumps and in.
fluenza.
A water system for domestic and
fire prevention use is being installed
in Taholah, Quinault Indian reserva-
ton village at the mouth of the Quin-
ault river.
To prevent San Jose scale that may
be living on fruit trees in Okanogan
from spreading to surrounding or
chards every fruit tree in town is to
be sprayed.
Nearly s2,Oo0,oo0 will be spent by
the state highway department on the
roads between Gle Elum and Walla
Walla as part of the 100000 allotted
to the Yakima district.
Sheep-killing dogs have been doing
much damage to flocks in the vicinity
of Walla Walla this season. About
100 head have been killed out of the
Dicus & Robinson flock.
The Kirkland canneries on the east
shore of Lake Washington were de.
stroyed by fire with loss estimated
by the owners at $4,000. The blaze
started in the boiler room.
William G. Johnson, widely known
farmer and sheepman of Walla Walla,
is dead at the age Of 80 years. He
was a pioneer of 1878 and a member
of the Johnson Brothers company.
Herbert Grossman Of Ocosta brought
in to the county agriculturist's office
in Montesano an 81a-pound cauliflower
produced in his gardens. The big veg
etable measures 1917 inches across.
More than $1,000 of the $4,000 to
be raised by popular subscription in
the city of Yakima for the construc.
ton of an 100000 hotel has been col.
lected by the chamber Of commerce.
The Kelso American Legion Rifle
club tested its new range on the Lex
ington road, north of Kelso, recently.
The range is equipped with a new
type of rotary carrier, which keeps a
target in motion.
More than 224,OOO acres of state and
private lands in Chelan county will be
guarded against fire this summer by