White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-14

Hogs-Good to choice, $5@5.65.
Cattle-Choice steers, $3.50 @5.75.
Sheep-spring lambs, $400@4.75.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $600@6.5O.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.0O@4.5O.
Lambs-Good to choice, $3.35@3.5O
Work has started at Reardon on the
new gasoline setup, under sponsor
ship of the Oranges.
Over S250,OO0 has been received or
is due growers in the Kennewick dis
trict from asparagus, strawberry and
cherry shipments.
Yakima county tax assessment valu'
ations will be Is per cent under the
total for last year, according to the
estimate of the county assessor.
The state supreme court has upheld
the right of counties to issue bonds
in excess of their constitutional debt
limit, to provide funds for unemploy-
ment relief.
The Asotin County Sportsmen's as
sociation will make an organized ef'
fort to defeat the proposed state game
control initiative measure at the No
vember election.
Struck on the head by a falling
plank, Albert c. Eckert, 81, Belling.
ham, was killed as he was assisting
other carpenters in tearing down
scaffolding about new barn.
Walter s. Wood, ex-justice Of the
peace at Morningside, was sentenced
to serve three to Is years in the state
prison for his confessed embezzlement
of more than $4,000 in county liquor
fines.
About 10 per cent better than the
10-year average is the estimate of the
wheat crop of the Walla Walla district.
The average is 100000 bushels. This
year the expectation is 100000
bushels.
Fire believed to have started from
fireworks shot off in the vicinity
early Wednesday destroyed the
grandstand and bleachers of the base
ball park of the Seattle club of the Pa
cific Coast league.
A determined attempt will be made
by the state highway patrol to prevent
speeding on the newly opened Naches
Pass highway and the newly paved
Yakima Ellensburg section of the In
land Empire highway.
On account of an increasing supply
of Washington-trained teachers the
state board Of education will not issue
certificates to applicants from the out
side until they have obtained regular
employment within the stae.
The annual picnic of the Pennsyl-
vania society of southwestern Wash
fngton will be held at Alexander park
Chehalis, Sunday, August z. There
will be program Of speaking and
music and a picnic luncheon.
Reductions of from 81 ton to rs
cents ton in handling charges for
wheat going through the warehouses
of the Colfax Grain Growers, Inc, have
been voted by the directors. Salaries
have been reduced 10 per cent.
A fawn, which escaped from the
Long-Bell Lumber company's mill site
during the week, has returned and is
again grazing with the buck and two
other does placed there last spring
by the county game commission.
Fruit production in the Yakima and
Kittitas Valleys and Benton county
this season will exceed the crop of
1881 by 1000 freight cars, according
to estimates reached by district horti.
cultural inspectors. The crop was
placed at 1912 cars as compared with
l8,419 cars in 1881. The increase chief.
ly was reported in peaches, cherries,
plums and prunes.
Suit has been started in the super.
Tor court at Okanogan to restrain the
city of Brewster from paying its bill
to the Washington Water Power com.
pany. r. A. Browning, mayor of the
city, is also district manager of the
company.
Relatives and friends of Mrs. Matte
Hoon gathered at the home OF her
son near State Line, in Walla Walla
county, recently in observance of her
Tooth birthday. Despite her age, Mrs
Hoon took keen interest in the days
festivities.