White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-14

While the rate OF reduction has not
been decided upon, cut in salaries
of county employees other than elected
offers will become effective in Yaki.
ma county. The reduction will prob
ably be 10 per cent.
Home industry and Washington pro
ducts generally will be given distinct
preference in Seattle's public works
should the voters adopt charter
amendment that the city plans to lay
before them March s.
E. ]. Wyman, manager of the Bell.
Wyman company of Yakima, was ia.
tally shot when he slipped while climb.
ing a snow covered canal bank. His
gun was discharged as he fell and the
bullet entered his neck.
According to advices received from
different parts Of Klickitat county, a
number of horses are being lest this
winter, due to disease the cause of
which is not known. Few animals are
saved after being stricken.
The second major oil drilling opera.
ton In the Olympic peninsula district
will be under way within the next
two weeks, according to the Quillayute
Oil company, north Of the Hob river,
scene Of Discovery Well No. 1.
Hops gave the greatest acreage re-
turns on the Sunnyside division of the
Yakima project last season. The val
ue per acre was $2S4.S2. Asparagus
was second with $210.75 an acre, and
grapes were third with $l24.34.
Ordinances have been passed by the
city council of Walla Walla requiring
that peddlers Of bread, fruits and pro-
duce take out licenses. The bread
peddling license is IS day and that
for fruit and produce ranges from $3.50
to $25 a day, growers exempt.
Centralia's fire loss in 1881 was the
lowest in the citys history, according
to an announcement by Fire Chief Ted
Patton. The total loss was $9249.3S,
of which $617231 was on buildings
and the balance on contents. This is
a per capita loss Of only II cents.
A fair grade of coal has been I'M
covered on the bank Of the Columbia
river by grade crews building the
$4,000 state highway bridge two
miles from Wenatchee. In 1892 the
Great Northern railroad offered $780,
900 to anyone discovering coal near
Wenatchee.
Corporation Counsel Van Soelen OF
Seattle has ruled that if the voters of
the city adopt the proposed amend
ment to the charter barring married
women and men whose wives are earn
ing living from civil srvice employ
ment it would be valid and stand the
test in the courts.
A logging camp is being opened by
Baker & Johnson in the Elk creek dis.
trict near Doty, in western Lewis
county. A quarter section of the old
Mccormick holdings will be, logged.
A road Is being built up Nine creek
TO permit trucking Of the logs to the
Milwaukee for shipment by rail.
The Clark county fish hatchery and
game farm southwest Of Battle Ground
started the 1892 season with a ship
ment Of 100000 Eastern brook eggs,
according to Warden l.. q. Morrow.
During the last year more than 60O,-
900 fish, 652 Chinese pheasants and
10 wild turkeys were sent out from
the farm.
Mrs. v. Brown, Wakiakum county
school superintendent at Cathlamet,
will soon start cataloging the library
in the county office, including volumes
from the Megner estate, which have
been stored in the county auditors
office for years. The library will be
opened to the public and the schools
when the work is finished.
Aberdeen firemen have proposed to
the city council voluntary reduction
Of S25 month for all 36 members OF
the department. Base pay has been
$3.50 month, but 10 per cent cut
went into effect recently and the $25
proposal was in addition to the 10 per
cent. The firemen took the action as
= means Of keeping the entire force
on the job rather than having eight
mon laid off owing to retrenchment.
Plans have been completed by the
Washington department of highways
to spend $2,750,000 on roads during
January, February and March, as
step toward relief Of winter unemploy-
ment. Nearly 100000 will be spent
on the regular program outlined by
the legislature, but the highway de-
partment has speeded up plans so the
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