White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF interest
Brlet Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem. hard
wheat, sc; soft white and western
white, 54hc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 53c.
Hay-Buying prices. T. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $1,000.
Butterfat @17c.
Eggs-Ranch, 17@19c.
Cattle-steers, good, s4.5O@6.OO.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4@4.S5.
Lambs-Good to choice, s4.OO@4.25.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 53kc; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 53Ac; blue
stem, 5S1ac.
Butterfat-1Sc.
Eggs-Ranch, 21c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5@5.15.
Cattle-Choice steers, $5.50@5.75.
OuCCp-SpI1uS P1.oVV1.1os
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, S4.5OP4.60.
Lambs-Medium to good, $3.50@3.75.
Wild blackberry fields in the CEN
trail Salmon creek valley, near Deep
River, have become feasting rounds
for bears.
Emulating Tarzan Of the Apes,
Norbert Sorger, 14-year-old boy of
Vancouver fell 80 feet from tree and
broke both arms.
Stanley Timmons, 11-year-old son of
C. L. Timmons, was drowned in the
Chehalis river when he slipped from
the mill boom while playing with three
boys.
Application for a s25O,00O loan from
the Reconstruction Finance corpora
ton to retire bonds against the Horse
Heaven irrigation district will be
made.
The result Of Mayor Dore's economy
campaign is shown in the budget esti.
mates of IL unsupported departments
of Seattle. They are 100000 less
than this year.
Wandering Is miles in daze from
one part of Seattle to another Mrs.
Ethel w. Carlin, 4S, was finally found,
suffering from an arm mangled in an
electric wringer.
With tentative budgets for every de-
partment except the library, the total
1888 budget of Spokane shows a re-
duction of $225,OOO as compared with
the budget Of 1882.
About 1000 bushels of winter wheat
is being hauled to Davenport ware
houses. The wheat Is averaging 80 to
IS bushels an acre and weighs about
So pounds to the bushel.
G. w. McCarty and e. ]. Banks
leaped to safety from truck on the
Bickleton highway when a short cir.
cult set it afire, but the machine was
burned, with loss Of $4,000.
The Walla Walla county commits
sioners decided that an additional $751;
900 is needed as an emergency to
carry the mothers pension and in
digent relief funds through 1882.
Fifteen men were enough to guard
the remains of forest fire in Menas-
fash timber and keep it in check, a
report from Currant flats ranger sta
ton said. 1t burned over $500 acres.
The Wenatchee Valley Traffic asso-
citation has wired protest to the inter.
state commerce commission against
the closing of the Spokane gateway
as requested by the Great Northern
railway.
Prompt and skillful first aid treat.
ment given by neighbor, Mrs. Nelson
LaPlant, probably saved the life OF
Otto Veum, rancher nine miles south
west of Chewelah, after he was bitten
by rattlesnake.
Since the first Of the year the bonded
Indebtedness of second and third class
school districts in Yakima county has
been reduced from $1,200,558 to ST.,
1928. There are 20 districts in the
county having bonds outstanding
Flames which broke out in the fin
ishing plant just after the crew had
left for the noon hour destroyed the
planning mill and several hundred
thousand feet Of lumber at the Pacific
lumber agency plant in Sumner.
A 2S-inch rattlesnake with sem
blances Of two-fingered hands growing