White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-29

EggS-Ranch, l1WoIc.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@6.6O.
Hogs-Good to choice, S5.60@5.75.
Lambs Choice, $5@5.5O.
Spokane
Cattle Steers. good, $5.25@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.25.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@4.5O.
The Tucker single mill, which has
been idle some time past, resumed
cutting recently. It has capacity OF
$4,000 shingles daily.
Final arrangements to complete the
Kennewick Highlands project are now
being made by the reclamation bureau.
1t has been announced.
Fire of unknown origin broke out
in the cold deck Of the Feagle Log
company at Skamokawa, burning ap-
proximately 100000 feet Of logs.
Chelan county taxes will be 5 mills
less next year. The state has cut z
mills, the city and the county l.
total of $44,471 has been cut from the
county schools.
The Frank ]. Wolf packing plant and
slaughter house, two miles south OF
Kelso, was destroyed by fire of I'M
determined origin with loss of from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The county commissioners of Walla
Walla county have voted to retain the
county agent and home demonstration
agent offices but voted 10 per cent
cut in salaries and wages.
Frank S. Stewart was Jailed on a
drunken driving charge at Walla Wal
la after his machine had collided with
a wagonload Of cider, splitting the apple
Juice all over the pavement.
Aaron S. Medley. 80 years old, is
dead at his home at Auburn. He was
the Oldest pioneer in White River val
ley and crossed the plains with his
parents in the same party with Ezra
Meeker in 1855.
A hearing on the application of the
International Utilities corporation for
a franchise to lay pipe line along the
Pacific highway from Vancouver to
the British Columbia line will be held
at Olympia, November "a.
The Michigan mill at Junction City
near Aberdeen closed for some time,
has resumed again with single shift
of 1875 men. The mill will run for an
Indefinite period, with production be-
ing governed by the amount Of orders.
For the second time voters of the
Wapato school district have rejected
a proposal for 21a-mill special levy
by vote of $50 to 391. The levy was
designed to raise $4,000 to restore free
textbooks for the first six grades, and
free transportation.
Charles A. Long, electrician in the
employ of mining company at Red
Mountain, is dead and d. M. Lackie,
mine superintendent, is dangerously
I'LL in a sanitarium at Leavenworth,
from poison gas generated in tunnel
when power lines were short-circuited.
To replace the large mill destroyed
by fire at Okanogan two months ago
construction will start Immediately on
q new sawmill planning mill and box
factory. The new mill will have ca
pacity of $4,000 feet Of lumber in
1O-hour shift and $4,000 boxes in
day.
Two new shop buildings at the state
training school for boys will be COM
pleted soon at Chehalis by the Lee
Nye Construction company Of Cen
tralia, which contracted to build them
for $19,344. Each is of brick and each
is 40xSO feet in size and two stories
high.
Fifteen minutes after he fled under
fire from the Cornell State bank,
where he obtained $S6501, a negro who
said he was "Billy Bob" White of
California was arrested by posse of
officers and citizens. The negro was
injured slightly by shotgun pellets
fired by a service station operator as
the black ran past him. e. j. Kinzer,
cashier, said White, who was armed,
passed him a note which read: Fork
over $500 p. d. @. Every time this
As barks someone is headed for the
graveyard"