White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
winter. 671dc; soft white and western
white. 47ho: hard winter. northern
spring and western red. ACC.
Hay-Buying prices. I. o. b. Port
~iand: Alfalfa, Yakima, $1,000.
Butterfat-Pound 11@13c.
Eggs-Ranch, 15@16c.
Hogs-Good to choice. $500.
Cattle-Choice steers. $6.35@7.00.
Thanksgiving. $4@4.5O.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
hard winter, western red and north
.ern spring 47c; bluestem, SIC.
Eggs-Ranch, 15@16c.
Butterfat-Pound 15c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Cattle-Choice steers, $550@5.75.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $4.00@4.75.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6.OO@6.5O.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.40@5.50.
Lambs-Good to choice, $3.35@3.50.
Three fires occurred in Charleston
recently. The total loss involved was
$4,000.
The Kelso police have a crew OF
seven prisoners working at the city
park without a guard. They are SEN
fenced to from Is to 60 days.
Olaf Helstrom, GA, proprietor of
store at Willapa, dropped dead at
Silver Lake, where he was camping
and fishing with his daughter Ruth, II.
Yakima county and city commission.
ers have adopted resolution formally
cutting the taxable valuation of real
estate in Yakima county rs per cent
So serious has the stealing of cattle
become in Cowlitz county that last
week owners of livestock met at Kelso
and perfected an organization to com.
bat the rustlers.
William G. Kelley, endeavoring to
roll up a coil of wire in an alley in
the downtown district of Walla Walla,
suffered burns on the hand, the wire
being alive. He will recover.
John Erskine, residing near
Rochester, was knocked down and
gored by young Jersey bull. The
animals horns only tore his clothing
and bruised the flesh, however.
Robert @. Arlington, 80, assistant
millwright at the Columbia River pa.
per mill at Vancouver, was killed when
40 volts Of electricity passed through
his body as he attempted to repair
pump.
Loss estimated at $4,000 resulted re.
Gently from fire that partly destroyed
the warehouse of Rovig & Temple
company Of Yakima. Six trucks were
burned. Cause Of the fire was I'M.
determined.
Personal property valuations in Spo-
kane county have dropped 1914 per
cent under last years figures. The
valuation of the county this year Is
$13,535,245 as compared with $16709,-
O05 last year.
Frank Mcdowell, business man Of
Centralia, who apparently doesn't like
whiskers, was arrested there on a
charge Of violating the "whisker or
dinance" and released on $25 bail
pending trial.
r. G. Shepherd of Vancouver is ex-
banding the operation of his fur fac
tory at 217 Main street. He will reopen
his cutting and designing department,
employing about so expert workers
"a hours day.
Some wheat has been shattered by
winds in the Walla Walla district,
early maturing varieties being hardest
hit. In the Dry Creek section, 1t Is
believed the loss will average about
10 bushels an acre.
The worst wind and dust storm OF
the year occurred at Davenport last
week but no damage was done to
crops in that area. Frost followed the
wind, damaging garden crops locally,
but wheat escaped.
Few moths are being caught in bait
traps now, and the flight of the first
brood is nearly over. E. j. Newcomer,
federal entomologist at Yakima, re-
ports. No spraying will be necessary
until the last of July.
Added to the drouth and the failure
Of the raspberry crop, Clark county
farmers now have plague of cut
worms to worry about. Virtually the
whole of the commercial cabbage crop
has succumbed to the pests.