White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-14
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Cur Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

white, hard winter, northern sprung
and western red, 5S1ac.
Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy,
s15@15.5O; eastern Oregon timothy.
$1S@1s5O; clover, $12; oat, s125o;
oats and vetch, SCHOOLS.
Butterfat-19@21c.
Eggs-Ranch, 1O@23c.
Cattle Steers, good, s575@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, s4.65@5.45.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
soc; hard winter northern spring, Gle;
western red, 6Oc; bluestem, nc.
Butterfat-23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 19@24c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.75@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @5.6O.
Lambs Choice, $4@4.50.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $550@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5@5.25.
Lambs Medium to good, S3.50@4.50
Ten carloads Of apples were dis.
patched from Bingen and Underwood
packing plants by rail to eastern
points.
A tin horn thrown by New Years
celebrant on a downtown street in Sc
attic severed the jugular vein of Mrs.
Adelaide Olson.
The first 100 New Years are the
noisiest, says John Moore, who cele-
brated his 101st birthday anniversary
New Years day in Spokane.
A perfect record was attained at
Wenatchee as 1881 passed without a
single automobile fatality having oc-
Cured within the city limits.
Pruning fruit trees will start In a
short time in the Charleston district.
Dormant spraying will also be done in
orchards already pruned in the fall.
Beginning this month all stores in
Colville will close at p. m. on Sat
urdays the same as weekdays. The
early closing will be in effect all win
ter.
Mrs. Frederick G. Thompson, for the
past 10 years head of the Tacoma Com
munity House, has been named as the
most useful citizen of Tacoma during
1881.
Traffic deaths in Seattle during the
last year totaled SO, official records
show, an increase over 1880. The
total number of traffic accidents were
fewer.
The Centralia police department
made 666 arrests in 1881, according
to the annual report Of Chief Of Po-
lice j. G. Kriebel. Total receipts
were $5299.25.
The state supreme court in an opin
ion has ruled that it is not necessary
to serve search warrants Jointly on
man and wife when they are in their
home together.
Work for between $50 and 200 men
will be provided by the city of Shelton
in the construction of the chlorination
plant and connecting sewer trunks at
cost Of $4,000.
The slowness Of taxpayers to pay
taxes has caused school district No.
1, comprising the city of Walla Walla
to go back to warrant basis, for the
first time in 10 years.
The Cathlamet volunteer fire de-
partment has adopted constitution
and bylaws and plans to hold monthly
drills. The Commercial club is spon
soring the organization.
A slight earthquake Jared western
Washington last week. No serious
damage was reported. At Lilliwaup,
on Hood canal, it cracked the concrete
wall of new store building.
wv CulluFGu duu one HAL WERE
burned fatally in the explosion Of a
still on small farm between Bur.
lington and Sedro-Woolley. Three
others were severely burned.
Yakima valley crops valued at more
than 100000 were hauled to outside
markets in 1881 by trucks. If the
tonnage had been moved by railroad
1900 cars would have been required.
An all-time record was established
by the Spokane postoffice in the hand.
ling Of Christmas parcel post mail,
when 10,345 packages were delivered
by trucks the day before Christmas.
The rights of Washington cities own.
ing and operating power plants to sell,
purchase or exchange surplus electric
energy with one another or with com.
munities outside their corporate limits
has been upheld by the state supreme
court.