White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-27
Meeting with the Chelan county com.

City government will cost the citi-
zens of Cheney $1S75 less next year
than it did this year. The 1888 budget
provides for the raising of $10,502 by
taxation. Owing to the reduced as
sesed valuation the rnillage will be
raised from 1413 to 1920 mills in 1888.
The reconstruction finance corpora
ton will make the loan to finance the
sale of farm board wheat to the
Chinese government as soon as some
legal difficulties have been ironed out,
Atlee Pomerene, president of the R.
F. c., assured Representative John w.
Summers.
Much of the wood cut in the noun
tains for Walla Walla county relief
may remain there through the winter
because of the slowness with which it
is being hauled out. One hundred cords
have been hauled to the fair grounds
for distribution and 400 cords are still
In the hills.
Half a million dollars will be dis
tributed in Okanogan county and the
Bridgeport district during the present
apple harvest. The crop is placed at
5000 carloads, or 2,26S,OOO boxes, near
ly half million bushels less than in
1881. About 5000 people are engaged
in the harvest.
BY riding roughshod over the city's
budget and slashing drastically all de-
partments the commissioners Of
Wenatchee have succeeded in lowering
the city's tax bill for 1888 20 per cent.
The actual reduction will be SO per
cent but reduced receipts offset Is
per cent of this.
George B. Lamping, president of the
Seattle port commission, has outlined
a plan for the construction of huge
new terminal on the Seattle water
front, which will provide six months
work for 5000 men. He would borrow
100000 from the Reconstruction FL
nance corporation.
William McCleary, Ga, Thurston and
Mason county lumber magnate, died
suddenly at Olympia. He was asso.
ciated with his brothers as vice presi-
dent of the Henry McCleary Timber
company. Plants and camps at Nc
Cleary and Shelton rank with the
largest in the state.
Chelan county employees have taken
a hand in the fight for lower taxes by
placing the blame for next years high.
er levy on the INDECENT relief fund.
The salaries of all employees were cut
20 per cent. The INDECENT relief fund,
100000 this year, has been budgeted
for $4,000 next year.
The Spokane city tax levy for 1898
will be POT mills as compared with
POL mills this year, an increase Of
6 mills. Total city expenses are esti-
mated at $2,S61,3S2 as compared with
$3,O08. 1872 this year. The consolidated
levy will be about So mills as COM
pared with SO this year.
The Columbia River Development
league is girded for drive to get
federal approval of the Columbia basin
project at the December session of
congress. At the annual league meet
ing members reelected Rufus Wood
of Wenatchee president and James
O'Sullivan executive secretary.
About $4,000 acres of winter wheat
have been sown in Douglas county this
fall and County Agent E. l.. Harms
predicts that about $4,000 acres will
be planted before the fall Is over.
furrow drills were used, depositing the
grain deep enough to reach moisture.
Slashing salaries per cent in sew
eral county departments, chopping
SASS from the juvenile court and par
ing preliminary estimates of %
agencies, the Yakima county commits
sioners have adopted budget calling
for approximately S271,9 1902, reduc-
ton of s1O,537 below the preliminary
budget.
C. S. Moody, state supervisor of
banking, was granted authority by
Judge Charles Leavy to pay a 10 per
cent dividend to depositors Of the
Hunters Exchange State bank at Col
vile. Payment will be made at once.
This is the second dividend and will
make total payment Of 35 per cent
to the depositors. 1t will also release
approximately $500 to the creditors.
The only deposit Of black granite
in the country is said to have been
found seven miles north Of Cape Horn
in Skamania county. Samples have
been taken out and worked to very
brilliant polish. Thomas H. Gibson
of Vancouver says IL transportation