White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-22
city. officials of Toppenish have

The 1882 budget or vancouver Calls
for an expenditure of $1S2,905 as COM
pared with $2OS,148 last year. Pay
checks of city employees will be cut
5 per cent and city improvements cur
tailed.
Seattle's tax levy for municipal par-
poses next year will total $1,000, 40S,
with average levy at the rate OF 1929
mills, as compared with this years
levy of 1,161,S4 at the average rate
of 1886 mills.
Floyd Haughton of Yakima missed
pheasants repeatedly last week while
hunting with his new, high-priced gun.
Then he threw down the weapon,
chased big rooster into fence cor
ner and captured him.
All parts of Skamania county were
represented in Stevenson at the an
nual Skamania county fair. Cape Horn
grange won first place with $50 points
out of a possible 1000 in the COM
munity booth section.
Based on a survey Of industrial
operations around Aberdeen, the
Grays harbor realty board has esti-
mated that 600 men and women went
back to work during the past three
weeks in mills and camps.
Walbert Mum, IA, son of Walter
e. Mum of Washougal, died in hos
pital at Vancouver, few hours after
he had been shot accidentally by his
father. Walbert ran in range just as
his father fired at pheasant.
Fifty thousand head Of feeder live
stock-pigs and lambs - have been
handled by the Old Union stockyards
of Spokane in the last few weeks. The
large movement is due to drouth con.
ditions and the low price Of wheat.
The gift of $250,O0O for a municipal
art museum at Seattle has been made
by Richard E. Fuller and his mother,
who recently inherited the fortune of
the late DR.. Eugene Fuller. The gift
is made with the provision that the
museum be located in Volunteer park.
About so members Of the Lincoln
County Taxpayers association, men,
bers Of the grange and members OF
town commercial bodies have passed
resolutions demanding drastic cuts in
the county budget and asking that
road work be virtually suspended next
year.
A bullet from rifle which had slip
ped from his hands and was discharg-
ed on striking the running board fatal
ly injured Henry McMurray, Is, Of
Yakima, while returning in an automo-
bile from hunting trip. The bullet
struck him below the chin and ranged
upward.
Great uncertainty regarding the liza.
bilities of land owners in the Yakima
irrigation district has been eliminated
by decision of the state supreme
court, which held that land owners
in diking and drainage districts are
not liable for the full amounts of the
districts debts.
Declaring that complete break
down of civic machinery, part suspen-
sion Of county government and clos.
ing Of schools are threatened at Col
fax, the Whitman County Tax league
has called upon the county commits.
sioners to curtail drastically every line
Of public activity.
The Doty Fish company at Kalama
Is placing in storage 6O32 pounds Of
fresh Columbia river salmon for Cow
litz county's needy this winter. The
movement to pack fish for winter was
started in Longview by R. L. Sailors,s
mayor, and the Doty Fish company
offered its plant for the purpose.
Reopening and improvement Of the
temporary road Of K. M. mountain in
Wahkiakum county as connecting
link between Skamokawa and Grays
river on the Ocean Beach highway
route was virtually assured last week.
This will give a year-round connect
ing highway from Longview to the
sea.
With numerous fires in surrounding
forests and with little prospect of rain
soon, the fire menace is increasing in
the Centerville section. Days are
warm, but nights frosty. Occurrence
of west wind would start confligra-
lions. Indians report that deer have
had their heavy coats on for several
weeks, indicating severe winter.
A much smaller acreage than usual
was planted to late potatoes in Clark
county this year and the yield will
probably not exceed 200 carloads,
Chaplin Mills, state district horticul-
tural inspector said recently. The
tuboro oro IN ovoo1Iopt condition ond