White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-09


damaged in the $4,000 fire which
wiped out large section of the bust.
ness district in February.
Three men were near death in the
Anacortes hospital and fourth was
injured severely as the result of q
donkey engine explosion at the indie
pendent Logging company's camp on
Turtleback mountain, Orcas island.
The North Pacific Oyster company,
composed of Montesano men, has just
planted on Willapa harbor it's first
shipment of seed oysters, consisting of
500 boxes received from Japan. The
oysters are expected to be ready to
harvest in about eight months.
Finals in the Klickitat county ora
torical were held at White Salmon,
April 8. Three schools participated:
White Salmon, Glenwood and Golden
dale. The group finals will be held
at Camas, the winner going to the
state finals, which will be held at Spo-
kane, May l.
Gull White of Wilbur reports that
Of 1000 ewes already LANDED two have
produced quadruplets. He also had
seven sets of triplets. His entire band
has yielded 1877 per cent. Coyotes are
beginning to prey heavily on sheep,
especially in the Tartar creek region
Of the Colville Indian reservation.
In honor of Narcissa Prentiss White
man, wife of Marcus Whitman, the
students of Adephi college, Brooklyn,
N. Y, have voted to erect stone
monument on the campus of Whitman
college. The monument, which is to
cost $120, will bear an official bronze
marker Of the Old Oregon Trail asso
citation.
Kennewick's first box Of asparagus
for the season was shipped a few days
ago by the Three Rivers Growers as
ISOLATION. Most of the grass was
grown on the r. e. Carpenter place.
On account of recent cold weather 1t
is anticipated that large shipments
will not take place until the latter part
Of this week.
The threat of the "gin marriage
y. OF in, q
sharp falling off of applications for
marriage licenses in March. The total
was 1853, compared with 100 in March,
1880. The total for February was 17S,
compared with 166 last year. After
the law was vetoed by Governor Hart
ley, applications increased to about
normal.
New regulations governing the
transfer of automobiles, which were
approved by the last legislature, are
now effective, and anyone who sells
a secondhand automobile must en-
dorse his license certificate on the
back and transfer it with the plates
to the buyer. The buyer must file ap-
plication for transfer of ownership be-
fore he can legally drive the car.
Motorists in Washington last week
began paying a gasoline tax of cents
a gallon, an increase of cents, max
ing one of the highest road tolls in
the United States and the stiffest tax
of any sort levied in the history of
Washington. Motorists will not pay
without protest, however, having al
ready appealed to the supreme court
to refer the scent levy to the people
Approximately $SS0,000 will be ex-
pended in road construction and main
tenance work in Cowlitz and Wahkia-
KUN counties this year. Probably the
largest amount will be spent on fur
Their construction of the Ocean Beach
highway, west Of Skamokawa. The
amount set aside for this work is $780,
900. The road funds of CoWlitz coun-
ty, used for maintenance, bridge con-
struction and for feeder roads, totals
$3.50, 900.
Walla Walla and Columbia county
orchardists alone spent more than
$4,000 last year for spray materials
used in the war against various in
sects and diseases, according to the
annual report Of Arthur G. Rich, dis
trict horticulturist, made public re-
Gently. The two major pests in the
district, Walla Walla, Columbia, Car
field, Asotin and Whitman counties.
are the codling moth and red spider
mite, other fruit pests being well I'M
der control.
Wheat dealers in the Walla Walla
district estimate that considerably
less than 10 per cent of last years
wheat crop remains in the ownership
Of the grower, though much Of the