White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-04
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

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Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, Tic:
soft white and western white, zoe;
hard winter, northern spring and west
ern red, &c.
Hay-Buying price, I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy $3.50
@16; eastern Oregon timothy, $3.50
1850; clover, Sill; oat hay, Sill; oats
and vetch, $1O@1O.5O.
Butterfat-18@21c.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@14c.
Cattle-S Steers, good, $7.50@7.85.
Hogs-Good to choice, $6.5O@7.25.
Lambs Good to choice, $7@7.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, 69hc; western red, north.
ern spring, hard winter, &c.
Eggs-Ranch, 10000.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7.50@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.50@7.65.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, 81.
Lambs Medium to good, $6@6.75.
Thousands of bees swarmed through
traffic in Aberdeen a few days ago.
Many were killed by automobiles be-
fore the swarm left.
Mrs. Katie Oliver of Seattle has told
sheriff's deputies that she shot herself
In the shoulder in her sleep thinking
she was firing at dream burglar.
Eighty-two sheep were killed when
a Preston-Larson freight truck from
Seattle plowed through a band of
sheep at the east end of Snake river
bridge at Pasco.
Mrs. Dexter Jean Croson, Is, of San
Francisco, died at Tacoma from burns
suffered in her hotel room. Police
believe she fell asleep in bed while
smoking cigarette.
The Longview chamber of commerce
will maintain an employment bureau
this year for strawberry pickers, pro
viding there is sufficient demand for
the service from growers.
AS an emergency measure to save
$500 the Walla Walla county commits
sioners have decided to have no coun-
ty nurse during the summer, the
change to be effective June is.
b. j. Buzzard Of Seattle, blind ex-
soldier, was elected commander of the
Washington department of the Dis
abled American War Veterans at the
convention held in Vancouver recently.
Thirty-one per cent of all inmates
in the state penitentiary are repeaters,
according to the records of the insti-
tuition. For every prisoner taxpayers
of the state pay out 61.63 cents per
day.
A meteor IL inches long and 8
inches wide fell on a farm near Fair
field one night recently. 1t was pick
ed up the next day, still hot, and
placed on exhibition at the Bank of
Fairfield.
Nearly 100 pastors and other church
and Sunday school officials and lay
delegates gathered in Yakima recent.
ly for the 9th annual Pacific north
west district conference of the Naza,
rene church.
Tourist bookings for the Pacific
Northwest are 80 per cent ahead Of
those of May, 1880, and Inquiries about
10 per cent, according to M. M. Good
sill. passenger agent Of the Northern
Pacific at Seattle.
Floods of mail bearing money and
offers of aid have come to Nicholas
Oeconomacos, famous clarinetist Of
Seattle, who few days ago said he
was going on the streets to play in
order to earn a living.
The third and probably last payment
to depositors Of the defunct American
Security bank will be made in two or
three months, Lyman Burnham, in
charge Of liquidating the assets, has
announced. Two previous payments
totaled 25 per cent each and the next
will be about Is per cent. ,..
George Warning, 35, Mabton mar