White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14


Hogs-Good to choice, S4S5@5.
Cattle-Choice steers, $500.
Sheep-Choice lambs, $6.25@7.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.5O@46O.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.50@6.25.
Mrs. Martha Cumbo, 6S, wife of G.
M. Cumbo and a pioneer of Douglas
county, died at her home in Water
Vile.
Bids were opened April 4 for a new
$4,000 domestic water supply for Kit
project is to be completed within 80
days.
Irrigation water was turned into all
Yakima canals last week, the reclaim
alton office announced. Water for
city lawns was made available at the
same time.
In the finals of the Thurston coun-
ty declamatory contest, held at Te-
nino, Kenneth Olsen, eighthgrade
pupil at the Grand Mound school, won
first place in oratory.
Guarded by his dog, the body Of
William R. Splawn, member of one
Of the first families to settle in the
Yakima valley, has been found on a
desert road near Vantage.
About 27,500 sheep and 900 horses
and cattle will Craze in the Wenatchee
national forest this summer. In addi-
ton $4,000 sheep and ESQ cattle will
feed on adjacent private land.
The 34th annual convention of the
Inland Empire Education association
was held in Spokane last week with
several hundred teachers and many
prominent educators in attendance.
The school board of Walla Walla has
decided to cut salaries between 6 and
8 per cent and to write into all con-
tracts that if taxes are not paid as ex-
pected another per cent cut will be
made.
Frank Blain, farmer in the North
Grand Coulee district, has the unique
distinction of putting an irrigation
pump to pump the water off his land
SO that he could put in his crop of 80
acres.
Two hundred of Yakima's unemploy
ed marched to the courthouse to pro-
test against an order of the county
commissioners closing the relief store
and dropping the emergency employ.
ment bureau.
King county is going to continue to
charge IS cents per day for feeding
federal prisoners, regardless of the as
sertion Of the federal Officials that
elsewhere prisoners may be boarded
for 60 cents a day.
The board of control of the asso-
ciated students Of the University of
Washington has approved turning con.
troll over to President Spencer. The
vote was 13 to 3, the alumni members
voting against the plan.
The county commissioners of Asotin
county have disregarded the protest
filed by the Charleston Heights Grange
and granted to the Washington Water
Power company a 25-year franchise in
the Charleston suburban districts.
Gasoline thieves, using trucks and
large gas drums are visiting ranches
in Walla Walla county and making
away with gasoline. Lester Robson
reports the loss. OF $50 gallons and
John Hoffman Of an equal amount
An experiment in gardening - the
growing of broccoli in Grays Harbor
for Herbert Grossman at Ocosta, near
He Is now harvesting his
first crop of about 100 heads. Broc
coli hitherto had not been produced
there.
Secretary OF the Interior Wilbur has
Endorsed the bill before congress rati
flying the 1908 agreement for the divi.
sion of the Ahtanum creek flow. No
more than Is per cent Of the water
will be taken for lands south OF the
creek.
Work OF laying brick for the new
cell block at the Walla Walla prison
started recently. The new block will
relieve the housing condition. The
capacity Of the prison is 1900 and there
are now 1850 prisoners within the
walls.