White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-11


Shumway junior high school, was
slugged and robbed of bag contain
ing $50 belonging to the school cafe
terra one afternoon last week as he
was preparing to leave for the bank.
A special drunk room" will be one
of the features of the new jail at We
natchee. There will also be gym
nasium, rifle range, Bertillon room,
kitchen and courtroom In addition to
the ordinary tank and cell quarters.
The Jail will accommodate 80 prison
ers.
The Eastern Washington and North
ern Idaho Baptist convention has yot-
ed to merge with the Western Wash
ington convention. The action is in
the interest of economy, centralizing
the working Of the church and elimin.
ating one set of officers and super
visors.
A second fire at the Rock Island
dam site destroyed the pool hall, an
apartment house, barber shop, restaur-
ant and general stose with loss esti-
mated by firemen at about $4,000.
They believed it was of incendiary
origin. A fire two weeks ago Destroy
ed a hotel with loss estimated at
$4,000.
Roy Privett, AZ, shot and fatally
wounded w. M. Owen at his office in
q furniture exchange at Yakima and
| then walked to the county sheriff's
office and surrendered. Privett told
officers Family trouble" had been the
cause of the shooting. He turned over
the gun with which he had fired the
shots.
Daily carlot shipments of strawber-
pies were still being made at Kenne-
wick last week. The price this year
has been rather low, but the tonnage
has been greater than for the last two
years, and a wider distribution has
been made, according to Lee M. Lamp
son, manager for the Three Rivers
Growers association.
| Lee M. Lampson, manager for the
| Three Rivers Growers association,
has received word from Washington,
d. c., Of his appointment as a Pacific
coast director of the National Fruit
and Vegetable exchange. This ex-
change is a new organization, formed
under the farm board act, for the mar
keting of fruit and vegetables.
Accepting the advice of H. H. Gill
bert, Washington state highway bridge
engineer, the commissioners Of Clark
and Cowlitz counties, in joint session
at Vancouver, decided to build sus.
pension bridge 800 feet long over the
Lewis river to replace the wood struc-
ture, which will be partially under
water when the Northwestern Electric
dam at Ariel is filled.
At the spot where the Stars and
Stripes were first unfurled in what
now is known as Washington state,
Chief Long Jim, last of the great In
father Of Princess Jessie Jim, died
last week. Interment will be at his
home on Astor townsite at the con.
junction of the Okanogan and Column
bia rivers, where the Alexander Ross
party settled in 1911.
L. v. STRAIN, chief clerk of the Pa.
cific Power & Light company at Wal
la Walla, said the new lowered rates
for the company, effective July l, will
mean saving to customers through
out the territory served Of $225,000 a
year. Six thousand customers will be
affected. The highest residential and
commercial rate in Walla Walla will
be cents kilowatt hour, and in the
rural districts the highest will be 8.5
cents.
prince" the only draft horse left
4 III <aOCIuCCu, 10 OA SuS UlONhs AO
Bay City mill, owner, will sell him
down the river or any place horses
can go these days. There was day
when Is head of fine horses worked
for Aberdeen mills, diaries, fuel sup
ply firms and other businesses, and
blacksmiths did lively volume of bus
mess. Most of the horses in the coun-
ty now are at the beach riding acad-
emies.
For the first time in history, the
Ocean Beach highway from Kelso to
the sea was ready for traffic last week
and thousands Of cars visited Long
beach points without recourse to ferry
or toll bridge. The road has been i'm
proved by eliminating trestles and
having the brush cut. Motorists re-
ported 1t little rough in spots, but
q grader will be at work smoothing