White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-08-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

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THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 55c; soft white and western
white, 46kc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 1870.
Hay-Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $3.50; valley timothy $3.50
@16: eastern Oregon timothy, $3.50
1880: clover, Sill; oat hay, Sill; oats
and vetch, s1O@10.5O.
Butterfat-27c.
Eggs-Ranch, 18@22c.
Cattle Steers, good, $6.50@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.25@S.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.25@6.75.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, Acc; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 44c; bluestenl,
54c.
Butterfat-27c.
Eggs-Ranch, 1926.
Cattle Choice steers, s6.25@7.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S.25@S.4O.
Lambs Choice, $5@5.75.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@4.75.
]. F. Stone, giant Tennesseean, shot
and killed George John, 40, in the lat
ter's cafe at Raymond in a quarrel
over meal.
Heaviest August frosts ever record
ed at ranger lookouts on Quartz, Goat
and Flies peaks near Yakima, occur
red last week.
w. O. Wray, proprietor Of the Cot
fee Cup cafe at Kalama, was pain
fully burned when his restaurant was
destroyed last week.
Orie Darling Jr, II, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Orie Darling, Humptulips, died
from gunshot wounds suffered while
hunting near his home with compan-
ions.
Bids for an extension of the Pan
handle road, north of Hoquiam, were
called by the Grays Harbor county
commissioners and will be opened at
1890 A. NJ, August 81.
Losing his balance when his wrench
slipped on top a tank car in Yakima.
Louis Sommers fell over the end of
the car, struck a steel bumper head
first and was killed.
Figures completed by the county as
SCISSOR show value of property within
the city limits of Walla Walla to be
$11,O68,9O2, which is decrease Of
$23O,46O from last year.
The Beacon Rock Logging company.
of which r. HI. Barr, veteran Kelso
logger, is head, has started logging a
tract of approximately 40,000,OO0 feet
of timber in Skamania county.
Lumber shipments over Vancouver
docks in July totaled 5,119,165 feet,
compared with 2,73O,586 in July, 1880.
An increase was shown both at the
port dock and the Dubois Matlock
dock.
The ]. Neils Lumber company saw
mill at Klickitat, in the Big Klackitat
river canyon in western klickitat
county, has started operations again
after about a months shutdown for
repairs.
Ed Medlock, 40, member of pio-
neer Coweeman valley family, died at
the Kelso General hospital OF injuries
sustained when he was kicked by q
horse and run over by wagon on
Braynion mountain.
Chairmen of the various depart
ments have been named for the an.
nual Wahkiakum county fair to be
held September 10, II and IL. H. 81
Gleason is manager, Mrs. Clifford
Monroe is secretary.
Flames destroyed the ferry, Central
Second, tied up at dock at Goose
berry point, near Bellingham, and II
was necessary for firemen to cut !,
away and set it adrift to save the
dock from destruction.
The first carload Of Italian prunes
from the Kennewick district was ship
ped out by the Three Rivers Growers
association. The shipment was billed
east and the price was quoted at 81
cents on these early cars.
About 60 cords of wood out at Lever
ich park in Vancouver have beer
hauled to the city barn on Reserve
street and will be held for distribu
ton to needy families this winter