White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-08-27

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Less than half an hour after a crowd
of over 900 persons had left The Will.
lows, large dance hall on South hill,
near Puyallup and short distance
southeast of Tacoma, the wooden,
building burst into flames and was
burned to the ground. ~
Leno P. Prante, Satsop farmer, has
broken leg as the result of crank.
ing farm tractor while the machine
was in gear. Prante, who was max.
ing preparations for blowing job,.
was knocked down, the heavy tractor
passing over his leg.
Prune growers of Walla Walla val.
ley are getting together on the mat
ter of limiting shipments and assign
ing quotas, which will hold down the
number of cars of fruit rolling, to 40
carloads day on the early movement
and a maximum of 70 for the peak.
Mrs. Wesley Corp and a daughter,
Arabelle, were painfully burned at
Castle Rock when pressure cooker,
in which Mrs. Corp was cooking apple
butter, exploded. 1t is believed the
steam gauge was clogged with apple
butter so the steam did not escape.
A concerted effort to keep unemploy.
ed transients and loiterers from con-
gregating in Yakima has been insti-
tuted by the police department. Some
men have been sentenced to JAIL but
the majority have been advised to
leave town after being held overnight.
Even if the county commissioners
eliminate the $4,000 for premiums as
planned, the Walla Walla county fair
association expects to present a fair
again next year, it was announced.
The association will eliminate most Of
the premiums and give the fair as
usual.
The city of Puyallup has won in
the United States circuit court Of ap-
peals in its effort to acquire in con-
domination suit the power plant of the
Puget Sound Power & Light company
at the figure $216, agreed on
by jury in the United States district
court in Seattle.
estate traffic officers could just as
we'll throw away their speedometers,"
William Cole, director of the state
highway patrol says. eve do not
watch the speedometers very close
any more. Instead, we go after the
reckless driver, the careless motorist
or the intoxicated one"
Discrediting the adage that light
ming never strikes twice in the same
place, the barn of CHARLES Robinson.
II miles southeast of Davenport, was
struck in recent electrical storm,
fire set and the barn burned with 20
tons of hay. Sixteen years ago light
ming struck the same barn, killing
horse.
Wheat farmers will have every OPP
portunity to- attend the 1881 Walla
Walla county fair, the county fair
board having voted to accept sack
of wheat as admission for any farm
er, his wife and child under IL. The
offer is for the opening day of the
fair. If wheat skyrockets the offer
will be withdrawn.
A contract for construction of the
Gle Elum dam was awarded recently
by the interior department, conclud-
ing long dispute between the federal
and state governments. The contract
signed by Acting Secretary Dixon,
provides for construction of the dam
at cost of approximately $1,300,000
by Winston Brothers of Minneapolis
According to Kelso attorneys who
have studied mining laws those who
have filed mining claims in the Cowee-
man district, Is miles east of there,
have wasted their time even though
they unearth valuable body of gold
bearing ore, because the land in that
district has been patented for years,
barring it from appropriation for min
ing claims.
A wage scale slightly lower in some
instances than that paid last year has
been adopted by the Washington
Growers Packing corporation for the
prune harvest which is to open at
Vancouver soon. Pickers will be paid
cents per box with bonus of 2
cents if they remain the entire season.
Laborers will be paid about the same
as last year.
George Dague disposed of peck OF
wheat recently in Walla Walla and got
an egg in his matted milk. He had
20 cents and the drink was Is. The
soda jerker jokingly offered to throw
in the egg for peck of wheat and
Dague went out to his truck and made