White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-23

| about rs miles west Of Port Angeles.
The reopening Of the pulp mill OF
the st. Regis Kraft company in Ia
coma has furnished work for 275 EN-.
ployes. The pulp mill has been down
| for several months.
The Naches hotel, new 100000
structure, has been started in Yakima
and will rise fourteen stories, topping
the tallest building in the city. Its
nearest competitor will be the twelve.
story Larsen building, which is now
being constructed.
Several men are employed at tho
Wind River nursery in the Columbia
national forest preparing young trees
for other national forests. The trees
will be used in reforestation. The
work is under the supervision of w.
F. Will of the Columbia national for
est.
March collections from the Teton
district are more than $4,000 above
the amount of money taken in in the
same period in 1880. A total Of $685.
691.40 has been paid. About $23, 459
Of the above sum has been applied on
construction and $1O,278.50 for main
tenance.
Reports received at the office Of the
Washington Growers Packing corpor-
alton in Vancouver indicate that re-
cent rains have not damaged the
prune crop, as there has been enough
sunshine to permit pollenization. With
continued mild weather a normal crop
is assured.
The grazing permits issued for 1881,
made public by the Wenatchee nation.
al forest office, shows a decrease of
the equivalent of 1924 sheep under
the 1880 total. OF the 54,415 sheep
that will be permitted, approximately
43 per cent are to be grazed on private
lands within the boundaries Of the
forest.
A cleared bottom land tract of more
than $50 acres within the city limits
Of Aberdeen was offered by Senator
e. G. Finch to the city for use this
summer in providing garden space for
needy families. Senator Finch put
the entire tract, which is virgin farm
land, at the disposal of welfare organ
izations.
Two unmasked men held UP the
Concrete State bank, kidnapped the
president, a woman employe and a
customer and escaped in their car
with $4,000 in gold and currency. The
three persons kidnapped, President
George Campbell, Ada Seabury, the
bookkeeper, and George Harper, were
released from the robbers automobile
three miles out of town.
Clinched together in corner of a
waterfront shack, Jack Johnston, 81,
and Fred Allsterberg, II, were burned
to death at Bellingham. The men,
who occasionally worked as longshore-
men, apparently were in bed when the
fire started, and one had attempted
to carry the other out, but became
confused and went to the corner Of
the shack instead of the door.
Palouse county farmers, with their
bins full of wheat, are cutting down
materially on their spring planting,
according to reports of the North Pa
cific Grain Growers, Inc, the reduc-
ton being estimated at Is per cent.
This, with the cut in fall planting,
will probably bring the total acreage
to about the same as last year.
A white wild swan was killed at
Copalis by Ed Wilson Of that place.
1t is the first Of the species known
to have been killed in that county in
a number of years and was part of
small flock flying to their northland
breeding grounds that was driven
ashore by heavy winds. State fish
cries inspector Roy Horr heard the
shot and arrested Wilson, who later
was fined $50 by Justice Furnia.
Fourteen million dollars will be
spent on Washington highways in the
less than nine months remaining in
1881, Samuel j. Humes, director of
highways, announced. Of the total,
S10,0O0,000 will be for construction
authorized by the legislature at its
last session. The remaining $4,400,000
will cover administration, mainton-
ance, reconstruction, oiling and I'M
completed work carried over from the
previous biennium.
The federal government has author
lied the creation of primitive area
in the Mount Baker national forest,
according to advices received by SUI
pervisor L. B. Pagter. known as the