White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-04

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Cattle-Steers, good, $6@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.85@5.00.
City officials of Okanogan have vol
UNFAIRLY taken cuts in salaries amount
ing to total of about $1,000 a year.
The Puget Sound Pulp & Timber
company mill at Everett has resumed
operations, employing approximately
$50 men.
The state supreme court has sus-
tanned the validity of the initiative
bill reapportioning and redistricting
the legislature.
The new city library has been for
mally dedicated and presented to the
people of Colville by the Colville I'm
provement club.
The city council Of Chewelah has
voted to purchase and install gas
tanks, pumps and oil drums for the
exclusive use of the city.
Crashing in his first flight with his
homemade airplane, Victor Levan-
way, Zillah rancher, escaped injury
but his plane was wrecked.
Diving into shallow water from a
springboard on the bank of Yakima
river, DR.. Edward G. Crowley, Yakima
dentist, fractured his neck.
The loss is estimated at $4,000 III
a fire that destroyed the packing plant
and slaughter house of the Wenatchee
Packing and Provision company.
The price of cream took a raise of
2 cents at Chewelah last week. The
low price of cream has affected the
Valley and the raise is very welcome.
Hay stored in barns before it was
thoroughly cured is believed respon.
sible for two serious and costly fires
in the Walla Walla valley in the last
few days.
Safecrackers opened the strongbox
of the postoffice at Clear Lake, near
Mount Vernon, and escaped with $50
in cash and stamps. No enc heard
the explosion.
Wheat harvesting is under way in
the Horse Heaven district. Some
farmers report that the crop is the
best in years with yields as high as
30 bushels an acre.
Plans for warehouse 70 by 120
feet to add to present quarters are
being prepared for the Interior Gro
Gerry company of Walla Walla, and
bids will be called soon.
The Columbia River Development
league is urging Governor Hartley to
apply for s7,00o,OOo loan under the
federal relief bill to enable the start.
ing of work on the Grand Coulee dam.
On the recommendation Of the as.
SCISSOR the Chelan county board of
equalization has slashed the assessed
valuation Of real property and i'm.
provements thereon about 20 per cent
The fight against grasshoppers in
Calispel valley has evidently been won
by the farmers. Little damage has
been done. Several tons Of poisoned
bran mash were used in combating
them.
property with tax valuations total.
fng $473,315 has been removed from
the Yakima county tax rolls by fore
closure for taxes or special assess.
ments. Most Of 1t is In the lower
valley.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
asked the interstate commerce com.
mission examiners, holding grain rate
hearings in Seattle, for permission to
charge more for shipping flour than
wheat.
Estimating its tonnage at 40 car
loads, twice the volume Of 1881, the
Mabton Cantaloupe association has let
a contract for the transportation of
Its produce to the coast to trucking
company at 40 cents hundred
pounds.
When Fred st. Peters, an Indian
farmer Of the Dfsautel region, struck
a match on the seat Of his trousers
the match broke in two. The lighted
end set fire to his field Of oats, In
which he was walking. He lost about
an acre and a half OF grain.