White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-01

bridge worker, was killed at Peshastin.
when an air compressor he was operat-
ing exploded. He was struck by fly
ing parts of the machine and died in
stantly.
The prune harvest in the Kennewick
district is we'll under way. Prices are
uncertain and the prunes are being
packed in baskets as an experiment.
Pears are being held in warehouses
awaiting rise in the market.
The BARRIERS war has flared up at
Kelso again and nearly all the shops
in the city slashed prices. A number
of the shops are cutting hair for %
cents, while others charge IS cents
for haircuts and Is cents for shaves.
An increased demand for tomatoes
and tomato juice now being packed at
the Walla Walla Canning company's
plant has caused the company to adj
vance the price paid for tomatoes to
So a ton in place of 81 previously paid.
construction of the Roza irrigation
project Senator Jones says he will in
troduce a bill in congress asking an ap-
preparation of $50,0O0,OO0 to complete
all federal reclamation projects under
construction.
Reconstruction work on the 700-foot
railroad tunnel on the Deep River
Logging company railway, two miles
north of Deep River, is under way
with large number of men at work.
Employees of the Deep River Logging
company are doing the work.
Chelan has the meanest thief. He
stole all the vegetables from Chelan
garden, which had been planted by q
little, crippled, old woman, and stuck
the potato vines back in the ground,
leading his victim to believe that she
at least had potatoes for the winter.
Mrs. j. P. Nicholson, 6S, was killed
at her Kirkland home, near Seattle,
as a result of lightning striking pow
er line transformer. The lightning was
believed by coroner's deputies to have
ignited cord above Mrs. Nicholson's.
bed and to have caused a short cir
cult.
Believed to be the smallest baby
ever to arrive in Centralia, son
weighing three pounds eight ounces
was born last week at a local hospi-
tai to Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Bales fol-
lowing a Caesarlan operation. Both
mother and child are reported to be
doing nicely.
Raymond's famous oyster money has
gone out Of circulation except for SOU
venir purposes. The suspended bank
against whose first dividend the oyster
money was issued has declared it's
first payment of 13 per cent. Only 10
per cent was needed to retire the
oyster money.
Taxpayers and members of unen-
ployment relief committees Of Whit
man county have asked the county
commissioners to levy half-mill tax,
or such additional amount as they may
find necessary, for unemployment re-
lief purposes. The fund is to be spent
on road improvement.
Maybe the sun won't fry eggs, as
is often claimed, but given chance,
it will hatch them. This has been
proved by Mrs. w. II. Andrus. When
a setting hen deserted her nest, Mrs.
Andrus placed the eggs in the sun dur
ing the day, taking them inside the
house at night. The results were per-
feet and most of the chicks emerged
last week.
w. L. McCutchan, White Salmon
fruit shipper, reports the sale of 10
cars of Bartlett pears, to be packed
and shipped through the Growers
Service company of Bingen, Wash;
also nine cars to be packed through
the Underwood Growers association
and six cars Of D'Anjou pears, also
through the latter association, all for
shipment direct to France.
Walla Walla's experim entail cannery
is employing more than 40 women and
30 men at this time in the processing
of tomatoes, according to P. ]. Burk,
superintendent. Large demand for to-
matoes and tomato Juice have been
made by wholesalers in Seattle, Port
land, Spokane and Tacoma, according
to Burke and the little, plant is ex-
pected to work on this crop for some
time.
Frank A. Rotter, 30, resident Of
Alder, Wash, lowered between life
and death in Yakima hospital, with
injuries received when he was swept
from the top of truckload of hay by
an overhead bridge at Roza. His skull
was fractured His brother, driving,