White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARK ETs
Portland

Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, SAC; soft white and western
white, Ate; hard winter, northern
spring id western red, 45c.
Hay-Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $3.50; valley timothy $3.50
@16; eastern Ore: timothy, $3.50
1880; clover, Sill; .at hay. Sill; oats
and vetch, $10@1O.5O.
Butterfat- 20@24c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@19c.
Cattle Steers, good, $750@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25@875.
Lambs Good to choice, $5.75@6.
Seattle
Wheat -. Soft white and western
white, 48c; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 47c; bluestem,
SIC.
Eggs-Ranch, 15@22c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7@775.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S.9O@9.50.
Lambs Choice, $5@5.75.
Spokane
CattleESteers, good, $7@S.
Hogs Good to choice, SS.50@875.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.50@5.25
Mrs. Cora Grantham is arranging a
frog farm on her acreage at View, i'll
northern Clark county.
Otto Blessner, a plumber of Spo-
kane, was arrested while fixing 100
gallon still near Milan.
The vanguard of the Washington
peaches is being shipped from Benton
county, the earliest district of the
state.
Because many people have not paid
taxes school district No. of Walla
Walla ran behind last school year.
The shortage from tax receipts was
$4,000.
The average cost per day for educat-
ing each pupil in high schools in Yak
ina county last school year was 81
cents, or Az cents less than the year
before.
Negotiations are Under way at Ok
anogan for the trucking of cattle from
there to Seattle. This method would
take Ia to 16 hours as against "a to
80 hours by rail.
A whistling we'll on the farm of
Clemens Geib, near Wilbur, is the only
% Tr1o miro
1t was drilled about 20 years ago to
depts of 24O feet.
Extreme heat in the Big Bend coun-
try is blamed for the death Of Louis
Spencer Case, pioneer wheat rancher
of Waterville. His body was found
near haystack.
Cyanide Of potassium powder be-
1ieved blown in his face while placing
it in a gopher hole led to the death
of Ross Hart, an orchard employe, at
Sawyer, Yakima county.
Milk COWS owned by members of the
Grays Harbor Herd Improvement as
ISOLATION have an average over per-
iod of a month of no pounds of milk
and 3O.2 pounds of butterfat.
Counties of the state can plan on
spending $2,51O,964 on farm-to-market
roads in 1892 This is the estimate
of total receipts from the 1-cent gaso-
line tax for the year ending June 80,
1882.
Fifty-seven per cent Of the 1881
taxes in Asotin county have been paid
in. During the month Of June this
year taxes totaling $14,4S2 were paid,
as against 41,101 the same month last
year.
The Repp brothers, farming near
Endicott, were the first to bring in
newly harvested wheat this season.
They won SIS prize given by the ware
house company for the first load OF
new wheat.
The state has equalized water short.
age priorities in an effort to reach an
amicable settlement of its controversy
with the federal bureau of reclamation
over water rights under the Yakima
river watershed.
The camp at Lake Merrill, for Boy
Scouts of Clark, Skamania and Cow.
1itz counties, has opened for four
weeks, during which time the camp
will be occupied in relays of two weeks
to each group.
Unification of road construction I'm.
der direction of an elected state high
way commission is proposed by w.
Lon Johnson, candidate for the repub
1ican nomination for governor, as
means Of reducing taxes.
The Chelan county conservation
league has asked the cooperation Of
the federal forest service for protec-