White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-12
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, SIC;
soft white, western white. &c; hard
winter, northern spring, western red,
CSC.
Hay-Buying price. (. O. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, s14.5O@15.5O; valley timothy
s17.50: eastern Oregon timothy, $3.50
$40: clover, $12; oat hay, $13; oats
and vetch, $13@13.5O.
Butterfat-25@ 2Sc.
Eg@-Ranch, 13@15c.
Cattle-Steers, good, S7@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7@8.
Lambs-Good to choice, $6@7.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, &C; western red, northern
spring, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@2Oc.
Butterfat-31c.
Cattle-Choice steers, s7.50@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S@8.15.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, s7.50@7.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, s7.50@775.
Lambs-Medium to good, $6@7.35.
Mrs. Annie e. Cook, II, a resident
of Clark county for 60 years, died re-
Gently as a result Of stroke.
Within the next 20 days $50 Pend
Oreille county men will go to work
in the four large sawmills Of the dis
trict.
Within nine hours crew of 200 vol
unteers erected the tabernacle that
houses the union evangelistic services
being held in Wenatchee.
Yakima valley fruit growers are an
ticipating decreased operating expense
this year. Prices are considerably
lower on boxing supplies and some
spray material.
Announcement was made at Che
halls by F. F. Duell that the Chehalis
Mill company's plant at Salkum re-
sumed operations recently. Between
rs and IS men were employed.
The 2O-months-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Hafer of Yakima died as the
result of an accidental kick in the
stomach. A small boy on roller skates
stumbled and inflicted the injury.
Drugless physicians will not be per.
mitted to practice in King county's
new hospital, 1t became known re-
Gently with the formal dedication OF
the $2,500,0e0 structure in Seattle.
W. e. Starkey Of the Washington
Cooperative Egg & Poultry association
declared recently that the Yakima
branch had doubled it's output during
the past year and reached volume
of $1,OOO0oO.
American Legion members have
taken over the administration Of the
Toppenish airport and plan to start
drive to improve it until the landing
field Is a model Of efficiency for the
entire Yakima valley.
With the opening of spring work
In the Walla Walla district on March
less reseeding was necessary
throughout the valley than for several
years, according to reports from all
sections of the county.
Appropriation Of $4,000 to relieve
unemployment among the Indians has
been made to the Yakima reservation.
The money will be used to build roads
near the Lookout Point ranger station
and only Indian labor will be used.
Serving as a dress rehearsal for
the southwest Washington music meet
preliminaries to be held at Chehalis
March IA, schools Of Pacific county
held their third annual music festival
at the Raymond high school auditor
ium.
Motor freight companies and the
Northern Pacific railroad company are
bidding spiritedly for the hauling Of
the 1881 crop of asparagus in the Sun
nyside district. Rates ranging from
287a cents to 81 hundred pounds are
offered.
Pea growers, adhering to the formu-
la of supply and demand, have invaded
the Palouse wheat region to merchan-
disc their product. The probable de-
mand is estimated before decisions on
planting and contracts are made. In
the 1880 season rs per cent of 10000
acres planted in the Palouse region
was on a contract basis. An average
crop of 20 bushels to the acre was
produced at a return of $24 an acre.