White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-29

Sheep-Spring lambs, $4.25@4.SO.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, s4.50@5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.25@4.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, s3.50@3.75.
The treasury has announced it would
open bids for sites for new federal
building at Kelso, October IL.
Commercial water rates for users Of
100000 gallons or more monthly have
been reduced 80 per cent by the city
council of Omak.
The tomato canning season reached
It's peak at Oroville Is the pack-out
hit 1000 cases day last week. Grow
ers are getting SO ton.
Rapid progress is being made in the
construction Of the Gle Elum dam. It
Is now so per cent completed. The
ultimate height of the dam is to be 140
feet.
They have opened up another kiln
at the lime works at Evans, near Mar.
Gus. 1t has given work to men who
had been laid off. There are three
kilns now working.
Louis F. w. Larsen of Malott has
been reelected master of the Okan-
ogan county Pomona grange. Larsen
has been master ever since the Po-
mona chapter was formed.
The city Of Walla Walla purchased
an airport beacon that will be in
stalled soon. 1t will have 100000
candle power and should be visible on
clear nights for 100 miles.
Freight rate reductions on loose I'M
wrapped apples and pears shipped
from Wenatchee to Montana, North
Dakota and western Minnesota are
announced by the Great Northern.
The Columbia basin orchards finish
ed pear picking and packing recently.
Fifty-five cars were shipped. Apple
picking started last week with an en-
larged crew. Local help is doing the
work.
Attacked by bull he was leading
near his home in the Wapato district.
Williap Fieldstead, 16, was knocked
down and mauled by the animal. His
leg was broken and he was injured in
ternally.
Ralph Clampitt, IT,, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Clampitt Of Pasco was
killed instantly. A branch of tree
which he was climbing broke and the
boy grabbed a power line carrying
$500 volts.
The former Whittle coal mine, near
Castle Rock, which has been leased
for long period by Abe Flewelling
and ]. G. Parkin of Centralia, is being
reopened and shipment of coal will
begin soon.
For the first time since the World
war Chelan will not have to vote an
excess school levy this year. A cut in
school expenses from 1853, 143 last year
to S46,438 this year makes this con.
dition possible.
Confidence that business conditions
will be better in the next four years
is indicated by L. L. Hughes, hop buy
er, who has contracted at Yakima for
10000 pounds q year for four years at
16 cents per pound.
A case of Malta or undulant fever,
uncommon in this part Of the world,
has been reported to health authori.
ties of Yakima John Pavelich, 60, is
i'll of the disease, which originates in
goats, hogs or cattle.
Police of Wenatchee are looking for
two thugs who robbed Lee Allen, a
Scenic mining prospector, after he
had fed and sheltered them. They
stole $3.50 in vouchers for gold sent to
the United States mint.
Eggs are picked from cherry trees
on Ernest Notes farm near Belling-
ham. They don't grow there, but
Eolte, poultryman, has eight temper
amental hens who insist on laying
their eggs in nest in the crotch of
q tree.
Mrs. Ahern and Mrs. Reems, evan.
gelists, who have held meetings at
Coulee for the past week, held a bap.
tismal service at Blue lake recently.
Forty-five converts were baptized
They came from Almira, Hartline and
Coules.