White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

Hay-Buying prices, I. O. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $1,000.
Butterfat-14@16c.
Eggs-Ranch, 17@19c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $425@5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.75@6.00.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.00@4.25.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 45c; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 45c; bluestem.
.55c.
Butterfat-15c.
Eggs-Ranch, 10000.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Cattle-Choice steers, $5.50@5.75.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $4.00@4.75.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@4.50.
The annual Pend Oreille county fair
will be held at Cusick, September Is,
16 and II.
Fire destroyed the warehouse of the
Odessa Union Warehouse company at
Harrington.
Two airplanes were heaps of wreck
age at Colfax because Henry Ewing,
of Colfax, "cranked" his ship with no.
body at the controls.
The fourteenth annual Boone picnic
was held at the farm home of Daniel
w. Boone, 10 miles south of Pullman,
with more than 1000 person attending.
Contracts for construction of three
concrete bridges near Cashmere were
awarded by the county commissioners
to Henry Hageman of Cashmere on a
bid of $17,247.
State Auditor G. w. Clauson, who
has announced his candidacy for re-
election, first took office as state audi
tor in 1905 and now is seeking cleo.
ton for seventh term.
Delay in the arrival of California
marble being used in the interior fin.
fishing of Hoquiam's new federal build
ing and postoffice will delay the struc'
lures opening until September.
The Cowlitz County Dairymen's as.
sociation at Kelso, which opened its
plant there several months ago, is pay
ing about $4,000 a month to mem.
bers for butterfat and sour cream.
Precautions against forest fires have
been taken by the Wenatchee national
forest supervisor, who has closed sew
eral districts. Permits to travel roads
in the closed districts must be OBJ.
tanned.
Construction of grain warehouse
at Minnick station, near Waitsburg, is
nearly completed. The cost has been
estimately at $27O0 and the building
will have space for $4,000 bushels of
sacked grain.
An earthquake of sufficient inten.
sity to rattle dishes on pantry shelves
and jostle furniture was felt in Sc.
attic, Tacoma and other northwestern
cities last week. No serious damage
was reported.
Rains have brought the cherry sea-
son to an abrupt close in many parts
of the state. Heavy rains on the west
side and hailstorm in the Cashmere
country did great damage to the re.
manning cherry crop.
Persons going to the mountains in
the Walla Walla section of the state
are finding that the forestry officials
mean business when they state that
an ak, a shovel and a bucket must be
carried in each automobile.
A patient was rescued in the nick
of time from a fiery death when
flames consumed one of the cottages
at the Williams hospital at Tenino.
The patient, James Fairbaurn, 80, was
pulled through a window by his feet
by H. 3. Williams as fire roared into
the room.
Approximately 500 persons will find
employment in the harvesting of the
pea crop OF members of the Longview
Cooperative Growers association. Of
ficials stated. Some picking is now
under way. Harvesting is expected to
be at it's height soon. All labor has
been signed. Pickers will receive GO
cents hundred pounds and Is cents
per hundred pounds for remaining the
season.
The dream and labors of quarter
OF a century by the people of Ellens.
burg was climaxed recently by in.
spection and dedication by high fed.
eral and state officials Of the $9,000,-
900 Kittitas Valley reclamation prof