White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-31

Two men were shot and seriously
wounded in the revival of a cattle feud
of long years. standing near Yelm.
About 200 more automobile licenses
have been issued by the auditor of
Franklin county this year than at the
same time last year.
A 10 per cent reduction in CONNER
cial light and power rates is announced
by the municipal system of Cashmere.
The cut became effective April /.
A new road from the Maryhill ferry
to the highway is under construction
in klickitat county. This will reduce
the distance from Goldendale to the
ferry ~ miles.
There were 1900 fewer dollars in
hiding at Walla Walla. A bank re-
yealed that a man gave them that
many dollar bills, never creased, in
payment of a debt.
The first steel for the 75,O00-dollar
lone bridge has arrived at Newport.
Work on the east side pier is all ready
for the steel casing. The work is be-
ing rushed to keep ahead of high
water.
Almost 26 years after it was issued
a dollar bill issued by the First Ma
tional bank of Oroville has been
turned in at the Oroville postoffice.
The bill was the first of a series given
out by the bank.
Yakima fruit shippers will demand
cut in freight rates on potatoes equal
to that given Idaho shippers. There
is in favor of the Idaho shipper a diff
ferential of 81 cents per hundred to
the Atlantic seaboard.
Memorial trees, in connection with
the Washington bicentennial, were
planted and dedicated recently at the
Whitman monument, six miles west Of
Walla Walla. Narcissa Prentiss chap
ter, d. A. r., had charge.
An unmasked gunman held up Teller
Erwin Radtke of the Seaboard branch
of the First National bank at Seattle
and escaped unnoticed in the MONDAY
crowds. Reports to police were that
$500 had been obtained.
The Yakima Chamber of Commerce
has been advised by the state highway
department that snowplow will be
put to work clearing snow from
Naches pass and that the highway will
be open to traffic in April.
Following the excitement caused by
many residents gathering in her home
to congratulate her on her Goth birth
day, Mrs. Mary E. Sturgeon of Pros
ser has become seriously ill. She had
been previously in good health.
Ten-months-old Marlene Edwards Of
Seattle yawned just as her mother,
standing over her, dropped small
open safety pin, which went down the
child's throat. Physicians assured the
mother that no injury would result.
Yakima valley fruit dealers have
been saved $4,000 by the new French
ruling admitting apple shipments from
Pacific Coast states. Between $50 and
200 carloads Of apples in transit would
have had to be reshipped, under the
original ruling.
Thomas Brown, clam digger, recent
1y picked up piece Of hard coal on
the beach near Aberdeen. He took it
home and used it in his stove. When
he had used about half OF 1t he came
upon a mature clam solidly imbedded
and very much alive.
The town of Newport is considering
q bond issue to establish municipal
water system. Last fall the town Of.
fered the private company $4,000. 1t
was refused, with the suggestion that
an offer of $4,000 might be given
consideration.
While highway crews are surveying
a new route for state road from We.
natchee to Rock Island, property own.
ers along the old road are protesting
Their opposition is based on labor and
money they donated for the building OF
the old route.