White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-25
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, Tic; soft white, western white
Soc; hard winter, northern spring and
western red, SIC.
Hay-Buying price, t. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, ts4@15; oats and vetch, $3.50
OLE.
Butterfat-1S@2Oc.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@15c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.75@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4@4.75.
Lambs-Good, $4.75@5.25.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
northern spring, 5Sc; hard winter,
SIC; western red, SEC; bluestem, zoe.
Butterfat-23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@1Sc.
Cattle-Steers, good, S.50@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.SO@4.9O.
Lambs-Choice, $4.75@5.25.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $525@5.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.5O@4.65.
Lambs-Good, $3.5O@4.75.
The Southwest Washington Fire.
meas association met in Chehalis
last week.
Some $4,000 feet of alder is being
taken from the Hedrick holdings at
Oak Point, IL miles west of Long.
view.
Transplanting tomato plants has
started in the greenhouses at Clark.
ston and within few days at least
10000 will be set out.
One person was killed and another
injured when a snowplow jumped the
tracks on the Great Northern lines,
and plunged $50 feet down an embank.
ment near Index.
The White Swan Simcoe Indian
council will ask the Indian bureau to
appropriate $4,000 from the Yakima
tribal fund for the use of Indian farm.
ers on the reservation.
Bloedel- Donovan Lumber camps,
closed November Is in Clallam coun.
ty on the Olympic peninsula will re-.
open this week, employing 400 men, j.
N. Donovan announced.
State bovine tuberculin eradication
laws have been upheld by the state
supreme court in the suit of Pau
Hooker of Olympia against the state
department of agriculture.
Chewelah's oldest building has been
destroyed by fire. The building was
at least 46 years old, having been
moved from the old town of Emery
vile, 21a miles east of Chewelah.
Naches farmers are up in arms
against the invasion of elks. Heavy
SHOWS have driven the animals from
the hills and they are disregarding
fences to reach the farmers haystacks.
A telephone rate hearing at which
the department of public works hopes
to end the 12-year controversy at
Everett over telephone metering de.
vices will be held at Everett, March 7.
The financial condition Of Walla
Walla county is excellent, according
to report Of state examiners. Re.
sources exceed liabilities by $647, 1876.
Cash in county funds amounts to $57,.
446.
A speedy statewide rural road-build.
Ing program to give winter-bound
farmers increased social and economic
advantages is advocated by the Whit.
man County School Directors associa.
ton,
During the celebration of his 8Oth
birthday Austin Mires of Ellensburg
danced jig to the strains of an old.
fashioned fiddle with agility. Mires
is one of the surviving signers Of the
state constitution.
Property in Asotin county, includ
ing farm lands, orchards and garden
tracts, city lots and improvements, will
be reduced 20 per cent in taxable
valuation in 1882. Grazing land will
be reduced 80 per cent.
Announcement was made recently
that the Proebstel cooperative cheese
family will start work soon on an
addition 35 by so feet in extent. Ad.
ditional equipment will include two
yats for cheese making.
Wheat on Eureka Flat, the largest
area of wheat in Walla Walla county,
is looking unusually well, according
to reports of growers of that section,
who report that recent thaWs has per.