White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
lie Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THs MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 53c; soft white and western
white, 48c; hard winter northern
sspring and western red, 45c.
Hay-Buying price. t. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $3.50; valley timothy $3.50
@1e; eastern Oregon timothy. $3.50
1850; clover, s11; oat hay, $11; oats
land vetch, $1O@10.5O.
Butterfat- 21@23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@19c.
Cattle Steers, good, $775@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25@S.S5.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.75@6.
Seattle
Wheat ~ Soft white and western
white, 4Sc; hard winter, western red
land northern spring, Acc; blueste'a.
SOC.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@22c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6.75@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4,000.
Lambs-Choice, S5@5.75.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $7@S.
Hogs Good to choice, $S.5O@S.75.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.5O@5.25
Fire destroyed the main plant OF
the Mountain Lumber company at Ia.
coma with an estimated loss Of $780,
900.
The first carload of tomatoes grown
outdoors in the Walla Walla valley has
been shipped. A total crop of $50 car
loads is expected.
Violet Brown, is, gave her life In
an unsuccessful attempt to save her
1O-year-old brother Robert from drown
ing in Newman lake, east Of Spokane.
Ranchers living in the state line
section near Walla Walla report nu-
merous thefts of bundled and stacked
wheat from fields since harvest has
started.
Work on the s1,sooooo marine hos
pital in Seattle will begin soon, &C
cording to N. P. SEVERN, Chicago,
who was awarded the general contract
by the government.
Two boxcars, 100-acre wheat field
and a warehouse containing $4,000
bushels of wheat at Delaney, in the
Dayton district, have been destroyed
by fire of unknown origin.
Forestry officials have closed 40O.-
900 acres in the Columbia national for
est because of the fire hazard. The
area lies mostly in Skamania county
and bordering on Clark county.
Scream of Peggy Lou, 3, summoned
her mother, Mrs. M T. Lotus, in time
to save the life Of her baby brother,
Tommy, aged 1S months, at Yakima.
The mother killed an intruding rattle
snake with hoe.
Drastic reduction in the wheat acre
age on the Yakima Indian reservation
is announced by Dwight ,Redman, Wa
patio project engineer. The farmers
are devoting 13,441 acres to crop, as
compared with 23,O25 in 1880.
In accordance with the request of
Mayor Kellogg of Bellingham, DR..
STUNT, state director Of health, has
ordered the closing Of Lake Whatcom
and Lake Pedden, sources Of Belling-
hams water supply, to bathers.
"Such a beesness." For the third
time in as many weeks a swarm of
bees landed on the home Of G. A.
Thomas near Yakima. The busy lit
tie creatures found knothole, entered
his home and set up housekeeping.
Clark county has expended since
1919 an aggregate sum of $1,l7O,Q0O
on road improvements confined solely
to districts where the work was done
under the local Improvement plan. To
cover this amount $1,O2S,OOO was se-I
cured through issuance Of bonds.
State District Engineer Schwarz has
announced that oiling the Evergreen
highway from Washougal to Steven
son started July is, beginning at
Washougal, where mixing plant was
installed. The highway department
has been preparing the surface Of the
highway for oiling and was well ahead
of the oiling crew.
Pete Nelson, Puget island, Wahkia-
KUN county, has shipped 1000 pounds
of peppermint oil to New York. 1t
was held over from 1880 and is bring
ing him S1.2O pound, which he says
is mot so bad" but rather small COM
pared with the $40 to $40 pound the
oil hro11oht him a few wears ago. when