White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-02-19
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, csc:
soft white, western white, 66c; hard
winter, northern spring, western red,
CSC.
Hay-Buying price, I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa. $16@16.50; valley timothy,
$3.50; eastern Oregon timothy, $500
$40; clover, $13; oat hay, $14; oats
and vetch, $13@13.50.
Butterfat-23@26c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@1Sc.
Cattle-Steers, good, $S.25@8.50.
Hogs-Good to choice. $7.75@8.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $7@7.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, 66c; western red, northern
spring, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@18c.
Butterfat-3Oc.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7.75@8.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.65@8.75.
Lambs-Choice, $650@7.25.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $e75@7.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $5.50@8.5
Iron pipe is cheap now, and the
Yakima city administration will spend
$4,000 buying a supply to be needed
soon for requirements.
Toppenish growers have shipped out
eight carloads Of onions during the
past week-dealers reporting a Sc a
ton offer on the product.
Dedication ceremonies for one of
the most modern postoffices in the
state took place at Port Orchard, coun-
ty seat Of Kitsap county, recently.
The Longview city dog pound, a
small frame structure, was destroyed
by fire. 1t was presumably set by boys
who had been seen in that vicinity.
Five hundred men were put to work
by the Bloedel-Donovan lumber mills
in it's cargo plant at Bellingham, max
ing 1900 employed by that concern
now.
The Spokane County Bankers asso-
citation has unanimously voted to con-
test in the courts the new personal tax
levied against bank franchises by the
county.
The Colville chamber of commerce
has passed resolution pledging itself
to the protection OF the dairy industry
by excluding the use and sale Of but
ter substitutes.
Members of the executive board of
the Washington State Federation Of
Women's Clubs have adopted a reso-
luton unfolding the state prohibition
law in it's entirety.
A crew Of 1875 was back at work at
Malone last week, when camps and
mills Of the MUMMY Lumber & Single
company, idle since the Christmas
holiday, began operations.
Sunnyside will be host to the annu.
al intercity meeting Of the Rotary
clubs Of Ellensburg, Grandview, Top
penish, Prosser and Yakima, to be held
in Yakima on March IL.
S. D. Sanders of Puyallup was re.
elected president of the Washington
Cooperative Egg and Poultry associa-
ton at meeting at which 5S3 stock
holders attended in Seattle.
Five new school buildings will be
built and six others enlarged if Seat
tie voters sanction $1,500000 bond
issue March 10, for which date spe-
cial election has been called.
Lawrence Applequist, Seattle's heav-
lest policeman until he retired in 1925,
was found dead in his bed from nat
ura1 causes. He weighed $50 pounds
and served 20 years as policeman.
The county commissioners of Lin
coin county have reduced the wages
Of road foreman from $3.50 to SO per
day, laborers from SO to $3.50 and
horse hire from 81 per horse to rs
cents.
The Tekoa town council has given
W. S. Scott contract for repairing
the high foot bridge over the railroad
tracks and Hangman creek. The
bridge was condemned as unsafe and
is closed.
Construction Of the Status pumping
unit is ahead of the schedule, and we'll
under the estimates Of cost. The pow
er house is so per cent completed and
the ditch has been dug for distance
of five miles.