White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03

Cattle Steers, good, s7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $75O@7.W
Lambs Medium to good, $4@4.7a;
Construction Of a new cell block at
Washington state prison in VIOLA
Walla is expected to start some time
soon.
More than 400 cars Of prunes have
been shipped out Of Walla Walla val.
ley so far this year, according to ].
d. Hamilton, United States market
news service.
William l.. Kicks, Garfield school
janitor, fractured his skull in a fall
from a scaffolding while washing pic
ture moulding at the school. He died
within short time.
Harvest of Lewis county's 1500-acre
crop of red clover will begin soon. The
yield will be only fair and quantity and
quality will be somewhat cut by the
damage done by the chalcis fly.
The fact that it will take A mill less
in 1882 for the items of interest and
sinking fund requirements than for
1881 is a very material help at Ia
coma in keeping the 1882 budget down.
Investigation of future possibilities
of reclamation on the Yakima Indian
reservation is in progress under Paul
Hodges of Denver, photographic en-
gineer for the federal Indian irriga,
ton service.
Cooperating with the Mckee district
school board in an effort to lower ex.
penses the teachers have volunteered
to take 10 per cent cut in salaries
This will make the budget $1,000 less
than last year.
Frank Telecky, who farms in the vi
entity of Ritzville, has established a
record with home help. He has COM
pleted harvesting 700 acres with the
help Of only his three sons. They av-
eraged 80 acres day.
All dances in Yakima county outside
the limits of incorporated cities and
at midnight. 1t will be necessary to
obtain special permit before dance
can operate later than that hour.
Every booth at the Longview farm
ers market was occupied recently for
the first time since the market was
established. More farmers are dis
playing interest in marketing through
the market since it's operation was
taken over by the grange.
Construction Of bridges across the
Yakima and Naches rivers just north
of Yakima on the Inland Empire high
way has been awarded by S. j. Humes,
director of highways, to D. Nybren of
Seattle at $110,7S7. The bridges will
be Just above the confluence of the
two rivers.
Fred Boileau of Longview was first
to feel the weight of a new policy re-
garding drunken driving decided upon
by Judge H. e. McKenney of Cowlitz
superior court, who sentenced him to
60 days in Jail and to pay a fine of
s250and suspended his drivers license
for one year.
Members of the first aid team of
the Washington Union Coal company
of Tono, mining community north
west of Centralia, won first honors at
the fourth annual statewide mine res
cue contest. The team made perfect
score. Eighteen other teams, from Is
industrial firms of the state, competed
All apple and pear packing plants
| in the White Salmon district, in an
| ticipation of fine crop of fruit, are
| getting ready for the harvest by re.
| pairing and enlarging their establish
| ments.
A cougar weighing SO pounds and
measuring feet and 1 inch in length
was killed recently by Joe Kestner,
| Wynooche valley ranger, near his
| cabin in the upper valley. A dog freed
| the big cat in the darkness and Kest.
| ner, firing when he heard snarls.
brought the marauder to the ground