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

Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, 69c; western red, north
ern spring, hard winter, &c.
Eggs-Ranch, 10000.
Cattle Choice steers, $7.50@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, s6.9O@7.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50.
mbs-Medium to good, SCOOPS.
Action was taken by the Kelso Par.
ent-Teacher association and other
groups recently toward establishment
Of playground for Kelso.
Taxpayers have paid 100000 less
into the Walla Walla county treasury
than at the same time last year, Rem
Thompson, treasurer, said.
John Bechtold, farmer, living on
route 2, Elma, lost a poultry house and
800 chickens in a recent fire. The
fire evidently caught from the brood
er.
The Peacock spit fishing grounds,
which once earned rental of $4,000
for the state, was leased by Land
Commissioner Savidge for $500 an.
nually.
The Lee East sawmill, which has
been under construction on the Cow
litz river at Castle Rock, started re-
Gently. 1t has capacity of about TO-
600 feet of lumber daily.
Glen Scott of Yakima finished first
in tho citizens division of the state
rifle shoot at Vancouver. Gloff Bren-
ner of Yakima was second and A. An
derson of Bremerton third.
The new plant of the Washington
Growers Cooperative, located in the
old steel shipyard at Vancouver, has
been completed, the machinery install.
ed and ready for operation.
The signatures of 70 Indians owning
more than $4,000 acres included in the
Klickitat irrigation project have been
forwarded to the government, asking
immediate action on the project.
Owing to the destructive storms of
last spring, forest frequenters of Clark
county may find their privileges cur
tanned this summer, intimates Super.
visor Bruckart of Columbia national
forest.
A horse and dog were burned tc
death and four sets Of harness and
two tons of hay were destroyed when
the large barn on the Tom Wallace
ranch northwest of Sunnyside was
burned.
A county cannot be required to pro
vide disqualification for tuberculous
/. residents, according to an opinion by
the attorney general. 1t is within the
discretion Of the county commission.
ers, he said.
The report of an unusual accident
comes from Toledo, where Miss Erva
Davenport suffered a wound in the left
leg when mole gun in the hands OF
her father, Floy Davenport, was dis
charged accidentally.
The raising of seed potatoes is be-
ing given trial this year on the Bob
ranch near the Colville agency by
Robert Hunt. It is believed that soil
and climate are especially favorable
for this special crop.
The gas prospect as the site of well
No. of the Elma Valley Gas & Oil
company is being steadily drilled, with
the 665-foot level having been reached
last week. The drill is slowed up by
extreme hard formation.
A street-department crew at Walla
Walla began grading new road into
the airport to connect with the Inland
Empire highway, and water-depart.
? ment forces began digging the ditch
Cor the new water supply line.
For the first time in two years, the
Vancouver Plywood plant will start
to manufacture box tops in order to
utilize waste from the manufacture OF
plywood,. This department is expect.
ed to add about SO persons to the pay.
roll.
A. s. Goss of Seattle was reelected
master of the Washington state
grange for his seventh term at the
annual convention in Bellingham.
More than 1900 delegates and visiting
members were present at the 4Sd SEES
sion.