White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-05-26

Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $6@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.60@3.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.75@5.50,
Mrs. Sarah Smith, resident of Pine
City 81 years, died at her home there
last week.
Nine head of cattle, all young steers,
belonging to Jack w. Davis Of Ridge
field, were killed by train near the
old Knox place.
Demands for reduction in the num-
Der of deputies at the courthouse have
been made by the Lincoln County Tax
payers association.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. z. Mobley of Walla Walla is
dead as the result Of injuries received
when flower box turned over on her.
Anticipating an influx of outside
labor to handle the fruit crop this year
the Wenatchee Chamber of Commerce
has taken steps to protect local work.
men.
When gasoline, with which she was
cleaning the floor at the home of o.
car Klasell at Montesano, exploded,
Mrs. Leona Sasser sustained severe
burns on both arms and hands.
More than $50 unemployed families
In Chelan country are raising their
own garden this summer under super.
vision of the county agent. Nearly 100
acres Of land has been donated.
A daylight airplane service between
Portland and Yakima, with stops at
Walla Walla, The Dalles, Goldendale
and Pasco, will be started June by
Portland Anyways, it was announced.
Heavy SHOWS in the Blue mountains,
covering from four to six feet in the
forests, continue to worry Walla Walla
citizens as the dangers from flood
continue over into late spring and
summer.
John F. Davis, director of the re-
gional loan office, announced recently
that seed loans to Pacific northwest
farmers for 1882 crop production total.
ed $692,175. Loans have been made
to 5138 farmers.
The root Of a wild cucumber at.
tracted attention at the Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce office recently.
The root, brought to the office by ].
w. Barnes, farmer residing near Fish.
er, weighed 2O7 pounds.
Prospects for fruit in the Grandview
district are the best in many years for
apricots, good for peaches and aver.
age for apples. An early drop shorten.
ed the pear crop. The cherry crop will
fall short of those Of former years.
The state supreme court has at.
firmed a Walla Walla county court
judgment denying the Wahluke In.
vestment company possession Of a
farm during the redemption period fol-
lowing the foreclosure Of mortgage.
Work was begun recently by the Gill
pin Construction company on the new
suspension bridge to span the Lewis
river at Yale. The contract also in.
cludes grading Of the Cowlitz and
Clark county approaches to the bridge.
Further progress in negotiations be-
tween Yakima Valley fruit growers
and steamship companies for water
transportation of northwest apples was
reported recently by P. r. Clark, chair.
man of the committee appointed by
northwest fruit growers associations.
Negotiations are under way to secure
space on four ships involving con.
tract of $500 carloads to be shipped
over a period of five years, with one
port of loading and two for unloading.
The city OF Gle E1um cannot stop
the United States reclamation service
from building dam in the Gle Elum
river, according to decision Of Super.
Tor Judge Brown of Okanogan. He also
ruled that the city is not entitled to
damages.
Ernest Smith, employee of Clemens
Logging company near Aberdeen, prob.
ably will never speak again as result
of an accident at the camp. A flying
choker struck him in the throat, in.
flicting severe injuries, especially to
the vocal chords.