White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-02

commerce.
A 2 per cent city tax on gross In
come of all public utilities operating
in Aberdeen was proposed last week
by the city council as means of
raising revenue. The matter was re
ferred to Mayor H. e. Bailey and Cor
poration Counsel E. E. Boner for in
vestigation.
Bids for the Longview postoffice
have been called and will be opened
in Washington, d. c., on June 81, &C.
cording to word from the national cap.
itol. The plans, drawn by Bebb &
Gould, Seattle architects, provide for
brick structure, with the cost lin.
tied to $4,000.
An aftermath of an Inflated picnic
party which started from Seattle to
Chehalis last summer was the award
of judgments by jury to five per
sons, totaling $9940. against their host.
The host, Louis Nockas, their suits
said, hit telephone while travelling
so miles an hour, injuring them.
Three men executed daylight es-
cape Sunday from the Clark county
Jail at Vancouver by saving the bars
of their cell. Donald Green, who
sawed out of his cell last summer and
was caught several months later in
Seattle, and j. L. Smith and Harvey
Madding, were the three to make the
break.
Add to the annals of unusual hap.
penings: Seven year old Kenneth
Ringstad fell asleep at the circus at
Seattle last week, fell six feet from
bleacher seat, broke his nose and
bruised his elbow. His father, R. A.
Ringstad, a fisherman, was watching
trapezist at the time, and did not
see his son fall.
Willard Abelo and Kenneth I'm.
phres of Walla Walla report that they
saw a hair seal about three feet long
in the Tucannon river, Columbia coun.
ty. Credence is given the report from
the fact that chinook salmon spawn
in the Tucannon. Seal follow the sal.
mon run. The one reported was 400
miles from the ocean.
The Scott Mills Dehydrating com.
pany of Salem, Or, plans to immedi-
ately erect plant at Yelm to dry
100000 pounds of blackcap raspber.
ries. The berries to be dried will be
used from the last part Of the crop,
which will relieve the growers Of the
problem of marketing berries of the
second and third grades.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
$4,000 federal customs and immigra.
tion building at the Canadian line, II
miles north Of Metaline Falls. A crew
of rs men are at work building the
brick customs station building and two
frame residences for the officers.
The buildings are located within
few feet of the line, on the American
"Oyster currency" totaling 100000
will soon be in circulation in Raymond
according to plans announced this
week. The currency will bear spe-
cial "oyster motif" design and will
be issued in denominations of 25c, SOC,
81 and SIS, serially numbered. The
scrip will be issued to depositors in
the defunct Raymond bank to the
amount of 10 per cent of their proofs
of claim.
The supposed granddaddy of all the
razor clans was caught last week at
Oyehut by George Stolz, Ocean City
clam digger. The huge mollusk was
seven inches long, slightly more than
seven inches in girth and weighed
exactly one pound. At the Warren
ton Packing company shed, where it
was turned in, the weighers marveled.
Fisheries department inspectors esti-
mated that the clam was years old.
William Sillman and his sister, Mrs.
Rose Auritt, were killed last Monday
when a bomb placed in their automo
bile went off just as they were turn
ing into ranch they own two miles
east of Prosser. The explosion sen,
the gas tank 200 feet ahead of the
car, threw Mrs Auritt's body 20 feet
to one side of the car and hurled Sill
man, who was driving the machine,
rs feet away. The bodies were badly
mangled.
Superior Judge Otis w. Brinker de
clared at Seattle that he was sorry he
could not impose whipping post pun
ishment on Edward Halverson, 81, O.
Tacoma, in sentencing him to year
in the county Jail for beating a girl
Halverson was found guilty of second
degree assault two weeks ago for
beating he gave Miss Beulah DePew
10, after a dance, A drinking party