White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-14


der operation, Erwin Osterich of Spo-
kane was on the operating table for
an appendix operation. He had &C
companied his wife to the hospital.
In the Lowden and Touchet districts
harvesting started July LIST In small
way. Ed Ketcherside started COM
bine in his fields and Dillars York also
began getting wheat into sacks. A
number of outfits will start this week.
Walla Walla county commissioners
have completed arrangements Tor the
securing of wood for indigents during
the coming year. A tract OF about ~
acres will be logged. Unemployed
men will be given an opportunity to
cut and saw the wood and haul 1t to
the city.
Siding with the Indians in their ef-
fort to have 100000 acres in Klickitat
county added to the Yakima reserva-
ton, F. M. Wilkes, engineer for the
United States Indian service, an
nounces that the reservation south
west boundary controversy will be
taken to the federal court.
About 100000 acres Of wheat and
other grains will be harvested in Doug
las county this year. 1t is estimated
that winter wheat will average be-
tween 10 and. Is bushels and spring
wheat from Is to Is bushels per acre.
The crop will probably amount to l.,
100000 bushels, the largest since 1927
Struck in the back by a section of
shattered circular saw, Cecil Nc
Kee, II, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Nc
Kee of Wilderness, rural community
west of Hoquiam, was fatally injured
and died on his way to a Hoquiam
hospital. The youth was saving wood
when the saw struck knot and broke
apart.
Construction of a highway tunnel
through Rocky Point, mile north of
Kelso, is one of the projects proposed
as an aid in the relief of unemploy-
ment next fall and winter. It would
eliminate the bad curve around Rocky
Point If done by hand, it would give
employment to 100 men for more than
year.
Two young women were injured at
the Tacoma stadium the night of the
4th when a wild steer leaped among
the spectators watching rodeo put
on by the American Legion. The steer
ran into the crowd, but its horns in
jured only Miss Lucille Vail and Miss
Inez Stone before man subdued the
animal.
The Finke shingle mill at Kalama
which has not been operating since
February, started July under the
management of Ben Finke and c. w
Parker of Kalama. 1t will operate as
the Blue Ribbon Single company and
four of the ten single machines will
operate until an adequate supply OF
timber is available.
From all parts Of the Chehalis dis
trict come reports that peas grown
for fresh shipment on the rs acres
locally are for the most part doing
will be coming off and shipments will
be under way, bringing into the com
munity cash return of cents 6
pound delivered in Chehalis.
In the absence of the coin of the
realm, citizens at Kettle Falls are re
verting to barter. Mill workers are
being paid in lumber, which is ex
changed for hay, grain and other pro
duce; fruit is traded for flour and pc
tatoes; even the barber shop has gone
on a barter basis and Clyde Tompkins
the proprietor, offers shaves and hair
cuts for strawberries, onions or sauer
: kraut.
; An acre of fill on the new Attic
Cosmopolis section Of the Raymond
Aberdeen state highway collapsed re
Gently and was swallowed up in wha
appeared to be localized earthquake
More than 100000 cubic yards of dir
vanished into the nav Of an interior
cavein, believed to have been caused
) by a geological fault. Workmen were
not hurt and none of the equipment
: was lost.
A five-day working week has beer
> inaugurated for the 1900 civilian ane
service employees of the Puget SOUND
navy yard at Bremerton, Rear-Ad
miral E. H. Campbell, naval distric
| commandant, announced. All employ
es 81 years of age or old who have hat
I Is years service will be retired imme
diately and the extensions any Of these
had been granted for employment will
> be cancelled. There will be no reduc