White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Joseph DeBuque, 106, died at the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. Ethel
Francis, in Vancouver. He was born
in Montreal, Canada, in 1924.
BY a vote of 62 to 2, the Selah and
Moxie irrigation district has decided
to purchase 1857 acre feet of storage
water from the reclamation service at
s17,57O.
Spokane county's 1881 road program
calls for the expenditure Of $19S,7S9.
A total of 43 miles Of road will be
graded and surfaced and an additional
81 miles oiled.
The state supreme court has decided
that the courts cannot disfranchise the
Kittitas County Humane society for
refusing to interfere with the annual
Ellensburg rodeo.
A change in the name of the Chelan
and Okanogan highway to Okanogan-
Cariboo trail, on the state highway
system, will be urged at the coming
session of the legislature.
Two hundred and fifty-seyen paroles
and discharges from the Monroe re-
formatory and the state penitentiary
were signed by Governor Hartley and
distributed as Christmas gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. s.. McElfresh, pio-
neer residents of Centralia, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary on
Christmas day. They were married
In Centralia December rs, 1880.
Representatives of Yakima valley
irrigation districts have been advised
by John Rummell, state examiner, to
make greater use of the state reclama-
ton revolving fund of $3,OOO,0OO.
Trade in Yakima valley farms con.
trolled by the Federal Land bank Of
Spokane has been unusually brisk this
fall. The majority of purchasers
show preference for tracts suitable for
dairying and diversified farming.
With prospects for year of pros.
perity, the Coast Brush Manufacturing
company has announced through it's
president, A. M. Hepp, the start Of
work on new factory in Tacoma at
once.
Delegates to the Washington Horti-
cultural associations annual meeting
adopted a resolution favoring the I'M
mediate establishment of northern
airmail route between Seattle and st.
Paul.
Centralia was in darkness for a
short time recently as a result of
tree falling across the transmission
line of the city's hydro-electric system
at q point about 2k miles south of
Yelm.
Trustees of the Seattle chamber OF
commerce have adopted a resolution
requesting that the Big Bend country
in eastern Washington be included in
the drouth-stricken areas to be given
federal aid.
More turkeys have been sold at Van
couver this year than during any other
Christmas season since the war, mar
ket men report. The supply is ample
and prices range higher than at
Thanksgiving.
Will Crispien of Cape Horn has won
the Thomas e. Wilson championship
gold medal for the best All club live
stock in the country. He has been In
the work only two years and is in the
Washougal high school.
Legal distractions to development OF
the Roza project in Yakima valley
have assumed such threatening pro-
portions that an economic conference
Of state and federal officials will be
called to find way out.
The sum of S35O,OOO will be avail
able for road construction in Cowlitz
county during 1881. About 100000
of this will come from the state lateral
and permanent highway funds, while
the balance is to be raised by coun
ty taxation.
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