White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-09
The Stevens Pass highway has been

Douglas county. He says many men
who abandoned their farms years ago
are returning and that much land idle
for years is being summer-fallowed.
The Grays Harbor clam pack for
1882 will run considerably below the
$4,000 cases packed in 1881, accord
ing to estimates made by cannerymen.
Digging was hampered throughout the
season by high tides and heavy surf.
The initiative measure limiting the
general tax levy to 40 mills has re-
ceived 10000 names in Seattle. About
$4,000 are needed to place it on the
ballot. The measure also provides
that emergency bond issues could be
voted by a three-fifth majority.
R. L. Gavin, Chehalis, who was
awaiting trial in superior court on a
statutory charge involving his daugh-
ter, escaped from the Lewis county
Jail by tieing eight blankets together
and descended about 70 feet from the
Main-street side Of the courthouse.
w. E. Craig has designed and
erected a portable sawmill which is
being operated in the southeastern
part of Clark county near Proebstel.
The mill has daily capacity of about
10000 feet and is cutting on an order
of $4,000 railroad ties which will be
shipped to China.
The executive board of the Sunny.
side irrigation district charges that
the new policy of the federal reclama-
ton bureau of allotment of water &C.
cording to classification of land is in
consistent with the use and practice
Of water delivery to government water
right lands that has prevailed for Is
years.
Two Walla Walla men reported they
saw a hair seal, about three feet in
length, swimming in the Tucannon
river, tributary of the Columbia, re.
Gently. The spot is more than 400
miles from the sea. 1t is believed the
seal may have followed the chinook
salmon, which go there to spawn each
spring.
Marian P. Smith, of Walla Walla,
died from being struck on the temple
by small piece of concrete, which
struck after glancing off tree, where
The boy was stunned momentarily
but went home unaided. He felt no
ill effects until midnight, when he
became delirious.
The Chelan Box Manufacturing
company's box factory, which recently
resumed operation, has given employ
ment to Is more men. Sixty were al
ready working in the sawmill. The
plant turned out more than 100000
boxes last year and is expected to ex
coed the number this year. Men with
families were given preference on the
jobs.
A sheepman from Yakima named
Mudd has ferried $500 sheep over the
Columbia and transported them in
trucks IS miles beyond Keller for
summer grazing. The sheep were
taken in 10 trucks, each having
trailer and both truck and trailer
equipped with double deck. Some
of the trucks and trailers carried 800
heads.
A dustless highway from Kelso to
Long Beach by August 1 rather than
September was promised by Sam
Humes, state highway engineer, at the
banquet at Long Beach recently open.
ing the summer season there. Mr.
Humes gave assurances that the Ska.
mokawa-Grays river section of the
highway will be completed as rapidly
as possible with August 1 as the goal.
While preparing his daughters
grave for Memorial day, e. H. D.
Webb, Wenatchee valley pioneer,
dropped dead following cerebral
hemorrhage. While rushing to the
cemetery, Irwin Jones, local under
taker, was injured when an ambulance
on which he was riding crashed into
a power pole. Jones suffered bruises
and cuts. The ambulance was
wrecked.
Baird, Wash, Is miles east OF
Coulee, an abandoned community of
buildings, again promises to become
a mecca for tractor statesmen and
horsetraders. For the first time in
many years, once-prosperous farmers
are hiring horses to drag 12-foot grain
drills over land that has long stood
idle. Others are summer-fallowing
with view of putting in fall wheat.
Throughout the Big Bend there is an
optimistic feeling that the dry years