White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31


all county employees must furnish their
own transportation to and from work.
The order stops the use of county au-
tomobiles by employees for such pur-
poses.,
In honor Of the late John Blum, Sc
attic aviator who was killed last No
vember when his plane crashed near
the summit of Snoqualmie pass, the
name of Bald mountain in the Baker
River district has been changed to
Mount Blum.
Four 5O-pound boxes of Columbia
river smelt, the first to be dipped in
the Cowlitz river this season, were
caught last week by Johnny Wanas.
say, Kelso fisherman, who netted
about $500 by his nights work. The
large run comes in February.
Several tons of rock and earth slid
off Campbell hill at the end of Fill.
more street, East Hoquiam, and
crashed into house occupied by Mrs.
c. A. Snyder, 255 Wheeler avenue.
The house was damaged and moved
several feet off it's foundation.
Victor Selander was splitting knots
for fuel at his home in Castle Rock.
AS he lifted his axe to strike the wood
it caught on clothes line, striking
him on the right side of his head. The
cut came close to his right eye. An
inch of bone was cut from his skull.
Approximately one tenth of those
employed In Cowlitz county are work.
ing for the federal, state or county
governments or on one of their sub.
divisions, and are receiving on the
aggregate more than $1,000,000 in pay
annually, survey of the county dis.
closed. @
The state penitentiary at Walla
Walla was filled and running over
with 1917 convicts registered, the
highest in the history Of the institu-
ton. The situation was relieved to
some extent when men freed at the
December session of the parole board
began to go out.
Advocates of private ownership of
public utilities won victory in Brem.
erton in a municipal election by vot-
ing to extend the franchise Of the Pu.
get Sound Power & Light company for
five years. The complete vote, in
the IA precincts, was: For the pro-
posal, 1908; against, 1855.
Fire-fighting costs for the Rainier
national forest for 1881 were $4,000,
nearly four times as heavy as in 1880,
it was shown in the report Of George
Vreeland, executive assistant in the
federal forestry office in Tacoma. Mr..
Vreeland said the increased costs
were due to weather conditions.
Progress in furthering agricultural
| development on the Yakima Indian
| reservation Is shown in the annual
| report of the agricultural supervisor
| of the agency. For the first time the
agency has loaned money to Indians
to get them to farm the land. Forty
| three loans, totaling $2734, were made.
w. A. Carte, an electrical engineer
of Seattle, found bomb attached to
the meteor of his automobile in park
ing lot. The bomb, of four sticks of
dynamite, was wired to the chassis
Of his car and attached to the distrib-
utor. Owing to the bungling of the
electrical connections 1t failed to ex.
plode.
While building short-wave radio
aerial in his yard in the Tietonview
district Grace Bowers, ~, was killed
instantly when the aerial contacted a
66OO-volt power line. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. w. l. Powers, who
were in Yakima shopping at the time.
The boys body, clothing aflame, was
found by passerby.
Hugh Bigelow, Raymond labor lead
er, died without having gained con-
seriousness after having been knocked
to hardwood floor in an exhibition
boxing match with Blackie Stevens
at a benefit smoker. His head struck
the floor as he fell from light blow
to the chin. He was promoting the
fight and put on an exhibition to
double for another man.
Ed Cammack of Kalama had mar.
row escape from serious injury when
a rope on which he was attempting to
CROSS the Kalama river about six miles
above Pigeon Springs broke and he
dropped 40 feet onto the rocky bank
of the river, from which he slid into
the water. He suffered injuries to
his back, but managed to get out and
walked seven miles to a cabin.
One cow of the Cowlitz County Dairy
Herd Improvement association has