White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-04
The sheriffs and peace officers Of


Olympia.
A survey discloses that growers of
the Kennewick district have been or
will be enriched by an estimated $780,
600 from new potatoes and apricots.
The largest portion, 100000, comes
from potatoes.
Stanley Campbell, Standard OIL
company employe, was fatally burned
at the sub-station at Dayton. He died
in hospital Is minutes after being
removed from the flames, which dam
aged the plant.
Excavation for Longview's new
$4,000 federal building, to be erected
opposite the civic center, probably
will start this week, as soon as the
contracts for excavation and driving
Of piling are let.
-Four masked men blasted the safe
of the Snoqualmie Lumber company
at Snoqualmie, after holding night
Waterman and a telephone girl as
prisoners, but fled as the alarm spread
after the explosion.
When pan of gasoline she was
using for cleaning purposes exploded,
Mrs. r. G.. Dittemore, So, Of Tacoma,
was hurled 80 feet with her clothing
in flames, suffering burns which re-
suited in her death.
The nonpolitical civic league OF
Whitman county has been organized
for the purpose of fighting the initia.
tive bill to repeal the state prohibition
law. Voters will be urged to register
and vote against the measure.
With .16 inches of rain falling on
Grays Harbor recently, the precipita.
ton record for July nearly reached
the four-inch mark. The total was
nearly four times normal precipitation
for the month, SO hundred inches.
Ed Ruckert, farmer northwest of
Pomeroy, was badly burned while
washing suit of coveralls in gasoline.
The gasoline ignited and the mans
clothing was burned off before he was
overpowered by "Slim" Hill, his farm
hand, and the flames put out.
The city council of Almira has ap.
proved plan offered by the chamber
Of commerce, which requires that all
transients who apply for help in the
town be sent to the marshal, who will
give them some work. They will be
paid in food or other merchandise.
Demonstration of how unemployed
may stage a miniature "gold rush"
Of their own by hand-placer mining
will be held at Lackamas creek, near
Camas, by three local prospectors,
who claim that gold can be found on
many sandbars Of the Columbia river.
Gasoline tax money and permanent
highway funds have aided in the i'm.
provement of 1872 miles of Benton
county roads. The work, contracted
by the Standard Asphalt and Paving
company Of Spokane, has been com
pleted. The improvement cost about
$4,000.
A census of the Indians under sthe
Jurisdiction of the Colville agency
shows a creditable increase in popu-
lation during 1881. The Colvilles in
creased from 3OO1 to 1852 and the
Spokanes from TIA to 1872. Between
60 and rs per cent of both tribes are
mixed bloods.
Harvest is in full swing in the north.
ern and western parts Of Columbia
county. The yield is running from 25
to 30 bushels an acre. This is above
the average for the lighter land dis.
tricts. Throughout the county the
crop is estimated at little below the
10-year average.
When Tom Cunningham was booked
for disorderly Conduct at Wala Walla
police headquarters last week, 1t was
his 18th arrest by the police since
October %, 1910, E. B. Vogel, chief,
said. He has been arrested here at
least once each year of the % and,
for good measure, has six justice
court convictions.
Charles A. Mansfield, manager of
the White Salmon cherry pool, places
the total shipment Of Royal Anne,
Bing and Lambert cherries from the
White Salmon valley at approximately
165 tons. Lack of satisfactory market
left many cherries unsold, but few
were allowed to go to waste, as needy
families were supplied all they de.
sired for canning.
The virtues of the horseless carriage
and the one drawn by old Dobbin are
combined in "horse-omobile" made