White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-07

ESgS-RanCn, lSVl0C.
Butterfat-Pound 22c.
Hogs-Good to choice, S510@5.25.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@7.
Sheep-Choice lambs, $6.25@7.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, S4.75@5.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.50@625
Erick Erickson, SO, drowned last
week when his car plunged into the
river near Winthrop.
The Central Bank of Tacoma which
closed it's doors in January, was re.
opened last week with deposits Of
more than S1,OOO,000.
Handling about 275,OO0 bushels of
wheat this year the Sprague Grain
Growers report net income of about
80 per cent on their capital of $1,000.
All cities in Washington will be
asked to join Seattle in fight to Sc
cure lower telephone rates. A reduc
ton of Is to so per cent in monthly
rates will be sought.
Mayor Leonard Funk of Spokane
introduced an ordinance in the city
council for 10 per cent salary cut
for all city employees and officers to
become effective July 1.
The Whitman County Taxpayers
league has Endorsed the recommends
ton of the Whitman County School
Directors association that school dis.
trict budgets be cut 20 per cent.
Whatcom county commissioners
have been urged by leading property
owners to cut county expenses rs per
cent. This would mean cut OF $40,
900 in the current expense fund.
Beauty lovers of the Yakima valley
are making their annual pilgrimage tc
old Fort Simcoe to see the spring flow
ers in bloom. Acres Of ground near
the fort are a mass of brilliant colors
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company has a crew rebuilding about
seven miles of it's main pole line west
erly from Chehalis along the Ocean
Beach highway to the district beyond
Adna.
Water has been turned into the high
line canal, main artery of the Lower
Wenatchee valley fruit district. A day
and a half will be required for the
water to reach the end Of the 35-mile
canal.
Over the mild protest of several
cigar dealers the city commissioners
of Walla Walla have passed a new
anti-gambling ordinance, which will
bar punchboards, dice games and other
devices.
Cutting of asparagus in the Sunny.
side district will start about the mid.
die of April. The acreage will be much
larger than last year and the quality
of the crop will be better, according to
growers.
Virtually ever taxpayer in Adams
county has taken advantage Of the half
payment of personal property taxes,
with the result that the receipts up to
March Is were $4,000 less than a
year ago. -4--
Bids on four state road contracts,
called by Samuel ]. Humes, director of
highways, to be opened April 26, in.
clude: Grand Coulee highway: grad
ing 81 miles, Soap Lake north in
Grant county.
A temporary injunction restraining
% counties of the state from Selling
property of the Northern Pacific rail
road for non-payment of personal prop
erty taxes has been issued by Federal
Judge Webster. ags
The city Of Tacoma's watershed Oh
the Skokomish river in the Olympic
mountains now has so per cent more
water than at any time during the last
nine years. At the 5000-level the snow
is feet 9 inches deep.
The schools at Kettle Falls, closed
because the condition Of the roads pre-.
vented the use of the vans, were OPEN
ed again last week. Fourteen men,
under Albert Champagne, started work
on road from the east end of Kettle
Falls bridge down to the falls.
BY letting nature do the work, rhu.
barb growers living west Of Walla
Walla, are profiting. These growers
are using warm artesian water for ir.
rigation, forcing the crop, and getting
top prices, beating the usual outdoor
grown product by several weeka