White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland


Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy $3.50
@16; eastern Oregon timothy, $3.50
1850; clover, Sill; oat hay, Sill; oats
and vetch, $1o@1o.50. I,
Butterfat -1S@24c.
Eggs Ranch, 14@16c.
Cattle Steers, good, $S.25@S65.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S@S.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $550@6.50.
Seattle
Wheat Soft white and western
white, SEC; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, bic; bluestem,
SOC.
Eggs-Ranch, 10000.
Cattle Choice steers, $7@8.
Hogs Good to choice, $9@9.35.
Lambs Choice, $6@675.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, $7@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.50@8.75.
Lambs Medium to good, $4.5O@5.25
The Bailey single plant in North
Aberdeen, destroyed by fire last
month, will be rebuilt and put into
operation soon.
The sight of one eye was lost by
Juanita Anderson, 5, at Longview,
when she was jabbed with a toy pop.
gun with which she was playing.
Fire, believed Of incendiary origin,
the fifth of the kind on produce row
this year, destroyed the Zellerbach
Paper company warehouse in Yakima.
Mrs. Ethel Zachow, who has a ranch
at the old Blewett mine on Blewett
pass, has killed duck and found gold
dust and nuggets in its craw worth
$2.65.
Z Eighteen hunters employed by the
federal biological survey killed ESQ
predatory animals in Washington dur
ing May. OF the animals killed 241
were coyotes.
The new Rosburg-Eden bridge, con-
structed at cost Of $4,000 to provide
a highway connection with the Ocean
Beach highway for some 60 families,
! has been formally dedicated.
Heavy rainfall in the mountains re-
Gently swelled the Yakima river to the
extent that the wastage over the Sun
nyside dam was increased in "a hours
from 120 second feet to 432 second
feet
Half-rate automobile licenses were
available all over the state. AS the
new So flat-rate license does not go
into effect until 1882, the rate will be
half the sum charged the first Of the
year.
The contract for construction of
750,0O0-bushel wheat elevator at Spo-
kane to cost $250,0OO was awarded by
the Farmers National Grain corpor-
alton, key unit in the national market
ing set-up.
Rain in the Waitsburg section has
relieved the grain burning conditions,
which were becoming serious in the
valley. Farmers report some smut.
Hay harvest has begun and grain is
ripening fast.
1t is estimated by George Estill, To-
cal manager of the Seattle Grain com
pany at Waterville, that the rainfall
the past few days has increased the
grain prospects of Douglas county by
100000 bushels.
At loss of approximately $4,000
the Central Mill Works, woodwork
ing plant, burned to the ground at
Longview, the second time in Is
months. The fire was the third at
the mill in that time.
The Walla Walla city commissioners
have called for bids to be opened July
8 on paving projects on Twelfth, En-
ma, West Alder, Maple, Third, Fourth
and Birch streets. A petition was
filed for paving l. street.
In spite Of rain, several hundred
ex-residents of the south attended
Lewis countys annual Dixie picnic at
Centralia recently. Mayor Tennent Of
Tacoma was the principal speaker.
Nine states were represented.
Danger of a serious water shortage
at Colville has caused the city coun.
Gil to issue orders curtailing the use
of water in sprinkling. The town has
been divided into two sections, with
different hours for sprinkling.
The 18th annual session of the north
west association Of sheriffs and police
was held in Seattle recently, with del
egates in attendance from Oregon,
California, Idaho, Montana, Utah,
Washington, Alberta and British Co