White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-11-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat = Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, S5c soft white and western
white, hard winter, northern spring
and western red, zoe.
Hay-Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, s14@1450; valley timothy,
s15@15.5o; eastern Oregon timothy,
s1SQ1S.5O; clover, Sill; oat hay, Sill;
oats and vetch, s.2@12.50.
Butterfat-28@31c. =
Eggs-Ranch, 17@29c.
Cattle-steers, good, $6.oo@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.65@5.25.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5@5.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
72c; hard winter, northern spring, TAG;
western red, 73c; bluestem, SAC.
Butterfat-33c.
Eggs-Ranch, 1S@35c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.25@5.35.
Lambs-Choice, $5@5.5O.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.25@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.S5@5.
ambs-Medium to good, $4@4.50.
The Seattle Gas company announced
a new rate, offering reductions OF
from 5 to 80 per cent on former
schedules, taking effect on November
16.
Fire, believed to have started from
refuse, damaged the Gruber-Docherty
lumber mill at ,Yelm to the extent OF
100000, according to reports made to
fire department officials.
Walla Walla has spent $2O9,O56 in
public improvements this year. or
this amount $116,24S was spent in re-
storing sidewalks and bulkheads dam
aged by a flood in March.
Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish come
dian, has sent an order from his home
in Scotland for six boxes of Washing
ton apples, two each of Winesaps;
Spitzenbergs and Newtons.
Edward Remy, widely known fruit
grower, died at his home in Yakima.
He was a leading horticultural ex-
perimenter and developed the King
Albert cherry, named after the king
of Belgium.
William H. Hobson, superintendent
OF the Greenwood Logging company,
was killed in an accident in the Wish
kah valley when speeder he was
riding jumped the track and crushed
him beneath it.
The dairy industry in the state, par
ticu1arly east Of the Cascades, is in a
healthy condition, according to State
Dairy Inspector Kennewick. Low feed
costs and favorable butterfat returns
are responsible.
Rising grain prices may help the
Farmers National bank at Pomeroy,
which failed last May 16, to pay its
obligations in full, James e. Drain,
receiver, said. A first dividend Of 20
per cent was paid last week.
What is believed to be the first in
ter-school algebra contest was held in
Olympia recently, when Olympia high
schools freshman squad Of mathema-
ticians won a 9 to 0 victory over the
six-man team Of Littlerock high.
Only few moments before he would
have entered it, the car of Jack Nc
Cauley, Twisp, was utterly demolished
in an explosion in what apparently
was an attempt on McCauley's life.
McCauley is a brother Of the sheriff.
Elsie May Gregg, 16-months-old, the
daughter of Captain and Mrs. William
Gregg Of the Salvation Army post at
Kelso, is alive as result Of the sue
cessful removal of a three-cornered
piece of chicken bone from her throat
by three Portland specialists.
The Kelso- Portland Navigation COM
pany is planning to run small boat
to Toledo to augment service by a
larger boat between Kelso and Port
land. 1t is 20 years since boats were
operated between Kelso and Toledo
giving freight and passenger service.
Police dogs have reputation for
being bit stern and impatient, but
the rule does not always apply. This
was proven at Hoquiam recently.
two-year-old female police dog, owned
by Mrs. Harry Madsen, arrived home
with a tiny kitten. The kitten is so
young it's eyes are not yet open. The
burly dog carried it tenderly in it's
mouth and later proceeded to nurse it.