White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat. 6Ohc; soft white and western
white. 49c: hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 477zc.
Hay-Buying prices. t. o. b. Port
land: Alfalfa, Yakima, $1,000.
Butterfat-14@16c.
Eggs-Ranch, 17@19c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $525@6.00.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.25@5.00.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.0O@4.25.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 45c; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 45c; bluestem.
.b5c.
Butterfat-17c.
Eggs-Ranch, 21c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5@5.25.
Cattle-Choice steers, $5.50@5.75.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $4.O0@4.75.
Spokane
Steers, good, $6@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.75@4.S5.
Lambs-Medium to good, $3.50@3.75.
A barn on the Virgil Valear farm
near Prescott was burned recently.
Twenty mules and full loft of hay
were destroyed.
Earwigs have appeared in gardens
at Sunnyside. Gardeners are planning
campaign to exterminate them be.
fore they get too firm hold.
Lee East of Castle Rock has in.
stalled a tie mill in the Sandy Bend
district and started cutting on an
order for 100000 feet of ties.
Shippers estimate that ITO carloads
of pears will be shipped from Kenne.
wick this season. Picking has begun.
Dealers are not optimistic over prices.
A new road through the Kaniksu
forest reserve from the Bears Paw dis.
trict to a point opposite Usk is being
considered by the Pend Oreille COM
missioners.
Robert Kilgore, IS, lost for seven
days in the Olympic mountains,
reached Shelton tired and hungry, but
suffering no severe effects from his
wanderings.
Frank E. Hoegerl, who lived five
miles northwest of Addy. died Of apo
plexy recently. He went out to milk
the COWS as usual and was stricken
at the barn.
A crowd estimated at 1900 attend.
ed the annual fish feed Of the Cash.
mere Sportsman's association and
dedicated the new fish hatchery on
Chiwaukum creek.
Cleanup of the Yakima valley cher.
ry crop last week showed shipments
of 1874 carloads to fresh fruit markets
and 26 carloads to canneries, The
crop was valued at 100000.
Wheat yields running as high as 80
bushels to the acre are reported from
the district south of Kahlotus. In the
lighter areas the grain is running
about Is bushels to the acre.
A group calling itself Progressive
Republicans has held conference at
Seattle and formally joined the Wash.
ington democrats in their campaign
for the election Of Roosevelt.
The first week of harvesting in the
Odessa country is passed and yields
turned out better generally than ex-
pected Two weeks more will be re-
quird to complete com bining.
Cowlitz county farm groups, embrace
ing grangers, cooperative members
and members Of various Growers as
sociations, will hold a picnic at the
Longview auto park August II.
Archie Pollock, rs, son of John Pol
lock, Union Gap, near Yakima, was
killed when truck driven by his
father was wrecked, out of control
against telephone pole at Zillah.
Five automobiles were stolen from
the streets in Yakima recently. Three
were found, one badly stripped. Two
apparently were stolen chiefly for
gasoline, as the tanks were empty.
The first two carloads of this sea-
sons Bartlett pears have been shipped
from Wenatchee to Canada. They
were in time to beat the new heavy
tariff which went into effect August 1.
Many friends and relatives gathered
recently at the Hergesheimer home in
the Cedonia district to celebrate the
92d birthday of Grandfather Dashields,
an interesting pioneer of Stevens
county.
The Yakima county commissioners
will join with other counties in south